[Graybeard58]

Maybe they ought to call the lawyers who advertise that they can settle IRS debts, for pennies on the dollar.

[Paulie]

This should be interesting...

[Attention Surplus Disorder]

Holy-—!

Unpaid payroll taxes, are among the least funny jokes in existence to the IRS. In the case of a business, they’ll come down on you like a ton of bricks and chain your doors shut. Perhaps one warning, then full brutality.

I do not know if I have ever heard of a case of unpaid payroll taxes in the case of a school or other publicly-funded entity. (That I have heard or not heard of such a case is entirely meaningless) But seriously, I can’t recall another instance of this.

[PistolPaknMama]

I fail to see the problem. They can just raise taxes on the people who paid them to manage this properly to begin with. Raising taxes solves all problem. /s

[Dilbert San Diego]

So they withhold taxes from employees but didn’t remit those payments to the IRS. So where did the money go? Is Gary corrupt???

I think there’s more to this than just catching up with their creditors.

[SeeSharp]

If you wanted to give the city of Chicago and enema, Gary Indiana is where you would stick the hose.

When Chicago runs out of south-side, it has Gary.

[Fightin Whitey]

Doesn’t pay to get niggardly with the IRS.

[econjack]

Dollar to a donut that there’s some embezzling going on.

[Steely Tom]

There’s at least one obvious factor in this situation that leads me to state - with confidence - that the IRS better not hold it’s breath.

[4yearlurker]

So the school district is withholding the taxes from employees paychecks but not sending the money to the IRS. Is that it?

[RightGeek]

Meanwhile, property taxpayers are contributing at a collection rate of only 42 percent.

Welcome to Detroit!

[smokingfrog]

http://image.slidesharecdn.com/garyindianatvmay2014083-140518205644-phpapp01/95/nwinewsinfo-newspaper-4-638.jpg?cb=1400464665

[Clintonfatigued]

How can these people teach math and logic when they can’t keep their own books in order?

[CreviceTool]

I drive through Gary on Routes 12 & 20 quite frequently. It is downtrodden, barren and boarded up with just one decent downtown attraction, The US Steelyard, for minor league baseball - “Home of the Railcats” http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/U.S._Steel_Yard

There is a very nice area at the eastern city limits called Miller Beach http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miller_Beach

[Oldeconomybuyer]

I’m guessing the Gary IN school board and municipal government is run exclusively of libertarians. Prolly for generations.

[EternalVigilance]

“We sent the check to Lois Lerner. She assured us she would file it along with her emails.”

[familyop]

If that were the case with all public schools, a national problem would be solved.

[68skylark]

Poor Gray — they seem to have lots of bad luck.