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