Posted on 04/15/2009 5:49:15 AM PDT by reaganaut1
The Treasury secretary, who oversees the IRS, didn't pay all his taxes. Neither did five other top nominees for the Obama administration, or their spouses.
Now, [...] some Americans are wondering why they should comply with the arcane requirements of the [IRS] when top administration officials failed to do the same. Even some IRS employees are upset at what they see as a double standard.
The most criticized example has been Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner, who admitted not paying $34,000 in payroll and Social Security taxes, saying his failure to pay was an oversight. Five other nominees disclosed similar tax issues, including one as recently as two weeks ago when Kathleen Sebelius, President Barack Obama's pick for secretary of health and human services, admitted she didn't pay $7,040.
"Our members are upset and angry," said Colleen Kelley, president of the National Treasury Employees Union, referring to concern bubbling up within the IRS over unusually strict rules that can cost agents their jobs if they make a mistake.
In some cases, IRS employees have lost jobs for simply filing a late return or failing to report a few hundred dollars of interest income.
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Robert Schriebman, a California tax lawyer who has testified before Congress, said his clients are seething over the tough treatment they get from the IRS, while some in the president's Cabinet apparently were able to duck paying their taxes.
"Politically powerful people are less likely to get bothered by the IRS," Schriebman said. "It is more than a question of fairness. Not only is the IRS looking away from confronting influential people, the IRS is getting a lot tougher and nastier toward the little guy."
IRS employees have reported that taxpayers are occasionally citing the Geithner case when they are asked to pay their tax bills.
(Excerpt) Read more at chicagotribune.com ...
Zero.
No interest. No penalties. Only the unpaid taxes.
Is it true that anyone not paying their fair share of taxes this year, will automatically receive a democrat voter registration card with their stimulus check?
Wasn't it "I did not know that."?
I guess your username explains why you did not hear it clearly...
You have to love the equal treatment.
You, or I would have owed 2-3 x’s the taxable amount from penalties & interest.
He was a classic.......
And you are correct....it's "I did not know that"
Here’s how the peasants are treated:
http://www.reuters.com/article/topNews/idUSTRE53D01M20090414?feedType=RSS&feedName=topNews&rpc=22&sp=true
An elderly woman in Austin, Texas, who asked not to be named, said her $3,000 debt to the IRS grew to around $60,000 in taxes and penalties over 16 years despite the fact that she paid off the initial debt within six months.
The 61-year-old is disabled and suffers from multiple health problems. The IRS now takes $133 each month from her Social Security disability check.
The practice is part of the agency’s Federal Payment Levy Program, which allows up to 15 percent of any federal payments a delinquent taxpayer receives to go directly to the IRS until their overdue taxes are paid in full.
Kind of like the CCR song...”There’s a bathroom on the right”. (Bad Moon on the rise)
I just got that...
And the famous "Bonanny Woman." I'm not sure what a "Bonanny Woman" is, but I am reasonably sure that I don't want one...
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