Local governments have been cheated out of billions of dollars in tax revenues, with a small number of perpetual scofflaws ripping off fellow citizens for seven-figure amounts, officials said Tuesday.

Maryland published a list of the 50 top individual and business tax offenders Tuesday, a group that collectively owes the state nearly $6 million. They have “essentially told the state to go jump in a lake,” Maryland Comptroller Peter Franchot told The Examiner.