Posted on 03/09/2019 7:47:48 PM PST by DeathBeforeDishonor1
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez wants to pass sweeping tax hikes on the wealthy, but the freshman lawmaker might want to take care of her own unpaid tax bill first.
Brook Avenue Press, a company she founded in 2012 to publish children’s books in The Bronx, owes the state $1,870.36 in corporate taxes, public records show.
The state slapped the company with a warrant on July 6, 2017, two months after Ocasio-Cortez announced her candidacy to run against Democratic incumbent Joe Crowley for the district that encompasses parts of Queens and The Bronx.
The state requires businesses to pay a corporation tax on a sliding scale based on revenue. The minimum payment last year was $25.
“The company probably got numerous letters from the state and probably ignored them,” one New York City accountant theorized.
Public records show the state dissolved the company in October 2016, which can happen when a business fails to pay corporate taxes or file a return.
The state Tax Department won’t comment on individual companies but typically files warrants as a last resort after trying to collect money.
“This is the first we’re hearing of it, and we won’t have any additional comment until we look into it,” Ocasio-Cortez’s spokesman, Corbin Trent, said Saturday.
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Big whoop. Nothing to see here, move along now. Tax evasion while democrat = no consequences (SEE: Pelosi, Waters, Menendez). Had she been GOP, this would have led every story on every network and angered libs if she only got a 4-year sentence.
She’ll just give them one of her famous clapbacks.
You can bet Trump will tweet about it though at some point and 50 something million folks will read about it and tell some other folks.
Also, what is going on with the NY Post?
It’s like they have an entire team investigating her past. :)
I love it. Every day they seem to find something new.
Just a little shocked is all.
Though they were at least moderate when they were taken over by Murdoch.
It was her company, she founded it. How is that possible?
Never heard anyone accuse of her being a financial genius .... or even have a wit of common sense.
Don’t forget Charlie Rangel. Free Demopass.
She better pay them before the IRS knocks on her door.
Since it is implausible that the MSM would investigate Democrats out of journalistic responsibility, I am starting to think that the recent hits on AOC and Ilhan Omar have been ordered by the top Democrats themselves. This is as a way to take out the threat to their power and to the party being caused these two lunatic women on a daily basis. Pelosi and others can’t do anything that leaves their fingerprints on it for fear of angering their extremist base. Solution: order the media to do it for them.
That is a twofer. It takes care of an annoying problem for the D’s, and makes the press seem more “fair and balanced” because they are going after “prominent” D’s and not just Trump.
Thoughts?
She’s told NYC she will gladly pay them the taxes in 13 years...
...Sec. of Treas. Geithner?
Funny cartoon, especially the “no ice”. I think that’s the Constitution she’s wiping up with.
I think most of this is coming from the Dem establishment. It's the only way to keep her in check since she has strayed from the control of Pelosi. They wont have any second thoughts on destroying her is it is for "the good of the Party".
Good one! At least he was arrested though offhand I don’t recall the outcome of it.
Does the IRS enforce state taxes?
This looks like it was NY state tax, not Fed
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