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Palin Ordered To Pay Back Taxes
CBS NEWS ^ | Feb 18,2009 | Igor Kossov

Posted on 02/18/2009 4:17:07 PM PST by SeekAndFind

Alaska officials on Wednesday ruled that Alaska governor and former GOP vice presidential nominee Sarah Palin must pay back taxes to the IRS.

The exact amount the governor must pay is not yet known, but the Associated Press estimates she owes taxes on more than $17,000 in per-diem expenses.

State employees who live more than 50 miles away from Alaska's capital, Juneau, are entitled to state aid in the form of per-diem payments. Juneau is approximately 600 miles from Palin's home town of Wasilla, making the governor eligible for the payments.

But before she accepted the vice presidential nomination, Palin charged the state for over 300 nights spent in her Wasilla home, not the governor's mansion in Juneau. Her expenses usually amounted to $60 per day.

On Wednesday, Alaska state officials decided that the per-diem expenses should be counted as taxable income. Palin's spokesman, Bill McAllister, said the governor would pay the taxes.


TOPICS: Government; News/Current Events; US: Alaska
KEYWORDS: alaska; backtaxes; imputedincome; irs; kelo; palin; taxaudit; taxes; thewinterwar
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To: Recovering_Democrat
I hope you can find some evidence that Sarah asked the commission to look at this...the LAMESTREAM MEDIA will try and use this to make Hussein’s idiots look good.

The story was in the ADN today:

"At the Governor's request, we reviewed the situation to determine whether we were in full compliance with the pertinent Internal Revenue Service regulations," Kreitzer wrote. "As a result of this review, we determined that per diem needs to be treated as income, requiring a revision of W-2 forms for any affected employees."
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61 posted on 02/18/2009 4:48:57 PM PST by Al B.
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To: skeeter

Hey, this make her eligible for a cabinet post doesn’t it? Now if we could just get her parents to say she was illegitimate she’d be eligible for President.


62 posted on 02/18/2009 4:54:24 PM PST by pepperdog (The world has gone crazy.)
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To: SeekAndFind

This “story” doesn’t make sense.
It was all cooked up for the sake of having a headline.
Man, I hate MSM.


63 posted on 02/18/2009 4:54:43 PM PST by La Enchiladita (God help us)
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To: sauropod
I have to agree with her having to pay the back taxes for this.

The point of this story is that they are not BACK taxes, they are taxes for the past year that aren't due until April 15 of this year. Also, she was just informed of this today, from a request that she initiated months ago.

The headline is making it sound like she failed to pay back taxes from prior years, in order to create some moral equivalency with the Obama administration nominees who hid income and avoided taxes for years.

-PJ

64 posted on 02/18/2009 4:58:54 PM PST by Political Junkie Too (You can never overestimate the Democrats' ability to overplay their hand.)
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To: SeekAndFind
The revelation about Palin comes as U.S. senators, including Sen. Mark Begich, D-Alaska, are under scrutiny over back taxes. A survey by the political newspaper and Web site Politico (www.politico.com) found that Begich was one of seven senators who acknowledged having paid back taxes.

Here's another little gem that cBS conveniently omitted when they repeated the story from the ADN.

65 posted on 02/18/2009 4:59:54 PM PST by Timocrat
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To: Political Junkie Too
Just another example of Palin Derangement Syndrome. Redneck
66 posted on 02/18/2009 5:00:02 PM PST by Askwhy5times (http://bloggingredneck.blogspot.com/)
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To: sauropod
No, Federal Government employees don't pay taxes on per diem. And while I have no knowledge of private industry practices in this area I doubt that business related travel expenses are taxed. But if they were counted as income then they could be deducted as a business expense I would think.
67 posted on 02/18/2009 5:03:39 PM PST by pepperdog (The world has gone crazy.)
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To: digger48

If, in fact, Gov Palin received a $60 per diem while staying at her Wassila home on 300 days/nights, that’s $18,000 in taxable income.

The determination seems to have been made only today that it is taxable income, and surely the 300 days are spread over a few years. All she has to do is file adjusted returns.

It is not, as the headline hopes to convey, that she is being ‘ordered to pay back taxes.’ But what else would we expect from CBS/AP?


68 posted on 02/18/2009 5:06:00 PM PST by EDINVA
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To: SeekAndFind

Seems like a rather straight forward non story to me. Unlike 0’s criminals who dodge their taxes, Sarah hasn’t dodged anything.


69 posted on 02/18/2009 5:08:19 PM PST by pallis
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To: SeekAndFind
Alaska should secede NOW!!
70 posted on 02/18/2009 5:12:32 PM PST by DTogo (Time to bring back the Sons of Liberty.)
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To: sauropod
“Most other people w/ jobs and allowances paid to them like this would have to declare their stipend as income.”

I respectfully disagree. Per Diems are generally a fixed amount paid in lieu of requiring an employee to itemize actual expenses. If the expenses were not reimbursed, the expenses would be tax deductible. Since they are merely to offset expenses, they shouldn't require being reported as income. I'm certain nobody else pays taxes on their per Diem's, they are trying to make a special case for her, which is unethical and illegal.

71 posted on 02/18/2009 5:15:05 PM PST by bitterohiogunclinger (America held hostage - day 105)
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To: SeekAndFind

So, if the state just decided that Palin owes taxes on per diem payments, does that mean that all the OTHER reps and senators who don’t live in Juneau must now also pay them? And if so, why doesn’t the miserable media say so?


73 posted on 02/18/2009 5:20:21 PM PST by kitkat (THE DAY WE LOSE OUR WILL TO FIGHT WILL BE THE DAY WE LOSE OUR FREEDOM.)
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To: Al B.

thank you very very much!!! I will be using that tomorrow if any of my liberal co-workers try to smear beautiful Sarah!


74 posted on 02/18/2009 5:22:48 PM PST by Recovering_Democrat
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To: SeekAndFind

Dems can’t attack her, not with Gietner as Treasury Secretary.


75 posted on 02/18/2009 5:24:20 PM PST by red in brea
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To: SeekAndFind

$60 per day??? We have pols in Massachusetts that make that much! For going a tiny fraction of the distance Palin has to travel!


76 posted on 02/18/2009 5:33:21 PM PST by SpinyNorman (The ACLU empowers terrorists and criminals, weakens America, and degrades our society.)
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To: muawiyah

When you are paid by the government to do government work out of your home, that’s income. It’s like “telecommuting.”
If the per diem is part of the compensation of your employment when you are in fact, home, it’s income.

The Government of Alaska could make it a condition of the job for the Governor to reside in Juneau during the term of office. AFAIK, there is no such requirement.


77 posted on 02/18/2009 5:36:56 PM PST by sauropod (An expression of deep worry and concern failed to cross either of Zaphod's faces - hitchhiker's guid)
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To: Political Junkie Too

I agree it was a scummy story for slanting the way you point out. ‘Pod.


78 posted on 02/18/2009 5:37:59 PM PST by sauropod (An expression of deep worry and concern failed to cross either of Zaphod's faces - hitchhiker's guid)
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To: pepperdog

Dood, she was *home*, not TDY.


79 posted on 02/18/2009 5:39:00 PM PST by sauropod (An expression of deep worry and concern failed to cross either of Zaphod's faces - hitchhiker's guid)
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To: bitterohiogunclinger

You are missing the point. If she was “on travel” then I agree with you.

She was home. Not on travel. Therefore - income.


80 posted on 02/18/2009 5:40:06 PM PST by sauropod (An expression of deep worry and concern failed to cross either of Zaphod's faces - hitchhiker's guid)
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