President-elect Barack Obama's choice to run the Treasury Department and lead the nation's economic rescue failed to pay $34,000 in taxes from 2001 to 2004, but the last-minute disclosure didn't stop Senate Democrats from moving forward with his nomination.
LadyJazzer wrote: I wasn't aware that Rangel worked for a revenue agency... Do you have a link for that? Geitner should have been taken to task a long time ago, but I don't remember seeing that he was accused of tax evasion... Do you have a link for that as well?
You jest? They worked for him. Ways and Mean committee ring a bell?
Ways and Means Committee is not a Tax & Revenue Agency... I'm fully aware that he was the head of the Ways and Means Committee. He is an elected official--not an employee of a tax/revenue agency. Now if you have some link that suggests that he works for a tax/revenue agency, I'm still waiting.
Ok.....I did as you suggested and I cannot find a case where it was shown that the IRS execs could not pay their own taxes.....of course there are a lot of cases that the IRS loses, but not because they don't pay their own taxes.....you're going to have to do better than that, or at least admit that this is your opinion which was based on something you might have heard a year ago...
This is a pretty damning statement
most of the higher ups in the IRS owe the most but can't pay. Hmm
Not trying to make a federal case out of this, but it does get tiresome when a claim is made like it's truth, but there is nothing other than personal opinion to back it up.
Yet neither Geithner nor at least a half-dozen others in the Obama Administration have answered for their failure to pay taxes prior to their being nominated for government posts. And to date not a single government or Wall Street figure in the multi-trillion-dollar economic debacle has been investigated or charged with crimes. No penalty was imposed as well, and there is no confirmation whether the taxes have been paid yet to date.
LadyJazzer wrote: I wasn't aware that Rangel worked for a revenue agency... Do you have a link for that? Geitner should have been taken to task a long time ago, but I don't remember seeing that he was accused of tax evasion... Do you have a link for that as well?
You jest? They worked for him. Ways and Mean committee ring a bell?
Ways and Means Committee is not a Tax & Revenue Agency... I'm fully aware that he was the head of the Ways and Means Committee. He is an elected official--not an employee of a tax/revenue agency. Now if you have some link that suggests that he works for a tax/revenue agency, I'm still waiting.
Split that hair all you want. I find your ability to suppress anything that does not corroborate your POV uncanny. I am relieved that progressives will become completely irrelevant in 2012.
Plenty more about irs contractors and fed employees owing 1 billion from march of this year.
Lets see....we have IRS contractors....nope they aren't "higher ups in the IRS". And we have federal employees.....there is no indication that they are IRS employess much less "higher ups in the IRS", and we have a single IRS employee, who would probably be thrilled to be considered a "higher up in the IRS" but she wasn't. None of them seem to fit your statement.
Martin Ent Inc wrote: Well lik I said was a year ago and musta been the contractors.
Anyway you are so right I bow.
The fact is they all owe over a billion $$'s. So lets pick the quilt apart because a thread is hanging.
Tip of the iceberg, I wonder how much tax revenue is out there from big corps evading taxes, and multi-millionaires with foreign bank accts.....not to mention just ordinary citizens who cheat on their taxes every year....having worked for a CPA you can't believe the number of people who ask you to fudge their tax returns and take deductions they aren't entitled to. We never would, but many tax professionals will. My SIL had his taxes done by an H&R Block type before I started doing them for him.....He was told he could deduct all sorts of stuff as a police officer that he couldn't legally, not being tax savvy himself, he took their word for it. Multiply that experience by millions of ordinary taxpayers out there and we have a whole lot of taxes that aren't being paid.
We need a simple, easy, understandable tax code with straightforward deductions and a lot less legalese.
