Posted on 01/14/2005 11:29:23 PM PST by Brian328i
One-room school faces $10,000 IRS fine
The Associated Press Last Updated 4:00 pm PST Thursday, January 13, 2005
BAYARD, Neb. (AP) - A tax error totaling less than $40 has resulted in a $10,000 fine for the Hill Public School, a one-room schoolhouse.
The IRS informed the school district of the discrepancy on June 1, 2003, and wants the fine to be paid, Rhonda Maxcy, school board secretary, said Monday.
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The penalty was ludicrously out of proportion to the offense.
Excessive bail shall not be required, nor excessive fines imposed, nor cruel and unusual punishments inflicted.
But I guess the 16th ammendment overrides the 8th.
We have one room school houses all over the place here in Pennsylvania. They are placed throughout the Amish community to serve the children of all ages. They have outside toilet facilities and wood stoves. They have half barrels outside on the porch for hand washing. Zoning is for
others. You try and build a school that way. The state mandates we have a room for this and that and new high schools run up into the 40 and 50 millions because of mandates. We build high schools with atriums and struggle with test scores while the Amish kids walk by to their one room school and know 2 languages before five years.............
Umm, this is a Public School? Doesn't that mean that the "public" is already paying the fine??
The only problem with this is the IRS is a very arrogant orginization all on its own. This story makes no logical sense and chances are once it gets a little publicity the idiot who levied this penalty will back off and have to admit that he or she is being overly aggressive against a non-profit orginization. This type of thing slips thru the cracks all the time and generally gets corrected once it sees the light of day with the public and their congressmen. Some people down at the IRS can make Scrooge look more like Tiny Tim. They are A$$holes to the Nth power.
A simple question. How can a public school be taxed?
The government can't tax the government now, can it?
This story is confusing. Next, the IRS will be taxing libraries, fire and police departments.
I would think that this sounds more like extortion than a fine.
'Same with my dad, except he also had to walk 10 miles to school, barefoot, in the snow, and uphill both ways.'
I have heard this before, but it was 6 miles from my dad. I never heard 'uphill both ways', I like that. LOL.
My father was stationed in Istanbul in the mid fifties when I was in 2-4 grades. American diplomats' and military kids went to school in a large Victorian house on the top of a small mountain. The school bus, a slightly converted deuce-and-a-half, could not drive up the mountain on either of two "roads" The one road was too narrow and the other was a cobblestone step street that was quite steep and had vehicularly impossible switchbacks and was 3/4 mile long. The American schoolkids were let off at the bottom of the mountain with a teacher and at least one parent volunteer and we walked up the mountain through two villages to school. The winter we did that was unusually snowy and there was snow on the ground from November through May. We came back down that mountain in the afternoon, often sliding on pieces of cardboard.
Sounds like it is the withholding on the salary of the teacher.
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