hypocritexposer
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 Posted: Sat Mar 13, 2010 4:17 pm Post subject: IRS stops by car wash looking for unpaid taxes |
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I wonder how much this cost the taxpayer?
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Bob Shallit: IRS visits Sacramento carwash in pursuit of 4 cents
It was every businessperson's nightmare.
Arriving at Harv's Metro Car Wash in midtown Wednesday afternoon were two dark-suited IRS agents demanding payment of delinquent taxes. "They were deadly serious, very aggressive, very condescending," says Harv's owner, Aaron Zeff.
The really odd part of this: The letter that was hand-delivered to Zeff's on-site manager showed the amount of money owed to the feds was ... 4 cents.
Inexplicably, penalties and taxes accruing on the debt – stemming from the 2006 tax year – were listed as $202.31, leaving Harv's with an obligation of $202.35.
http://www.sacbee.com/2010/03/13/2604016/irs-suits-pay-visit-to-car-wash.html |
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Tam
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| Posted: Sat Mar 13, 2010 9:49 pm Post subject: Re: IRS stops by car wash looking for unpaid taxes |
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| Inexplicably, penalties and taxes accruing on the debt – stemming from the 2006 tax year – were listed as $202.31, leaving Harv's with an obligation of $202.35. |
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| In all, Geithner paid $42,702 in back taxes and interest. In addition to his payment of the unpaid self-employment taxes, Geithner also had to pay $5,566 to cover other shortfalls in his tax payments, for a total of $48,268 in back taxes and interest. |
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| Former Senate Democratic Leader Tom Daschle paid $140,000 in back taxes and interest in recent weeks – much of it due to a car and driver loaned to him for free by a friend and Democratic fundraiser. |
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| Former Dallas Democratic Mayor Ron Kirk, nominated for Trade Representative, failed to pay $10,000 in back taxes for speaking fees over three years. He faced Senate questioning on March 9 over it, but is expected to win confirmation. $2,600 of the back taxes was due to deducting $17,382 worth of basketball tickets; he was unable to provide proof of business purposes for those tickets. Most Americans can't afford $17,382 in baseball tickets, much less have a business to deduct the cost from. Kirk also took overly large deductions for a used TV he gave to charity, and inflated accounting and tax preparation fees. He has agreed to pay $9,975 in back taxes from 2005-2007. |
Now if there is $202.31 penalites on $.04 in 4 years just what kind of deal did Geithner and Daschle when they only had to pay interest with no penalities? And what a deal Kirk got when he failed to pay $10,000 and agreed to only $9,975 which means no interest or penalities. There truly is a double standard in the Obama government. 
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