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发帖数: 36306 | | y****o
发帖数: 3575 | 2 没有说refund的就会减。我老的看法是就算你refund那个配额也在少。 | a******e
发帖数: 36306 | 3 唉。。。。IRS把obama偷税漏税的钱算上大家都安了。
【在 y****o 的大作中提到】
: 没有说refund的就会减。我老的看法是就算你refund那个配额也在少。
| h*e
发帖数: 10233 | 4 是呀，IRS大老板Timothy Geithner自己偷漏税也没事，对老百姓管这么严，这是只许
那啥，不许那
啥呀。
【在 a******e 的大作中提到】
: 唉。。。。IRS把obama偷税漏税的钱算上大家都安了。
| w******a
发帖数: 986 | 5 link?
【在 h*e 的大作中提到】
: 是呀，IRS大老板Timothy Geithner自己偷漏税也没事，对老百姓管这么严，这是只许
: 那啥，不许那
: 啥呀。
| h*e
发帖数: 10233 | 6 当年任命前不是搞得沸沸扬扬吗？
Tim Geithner's tax evasion
By Alex Spillius World Last updated: January 22nd, 2009
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THE US senate finance committee has voted for a tax evader to become
Treasury secretary. He is likely to be confirmed by a vote on the senate
floor soon.
Be in no doubt that is what Tim Geithner is. I’m not sure what is more
amazing about this case: the virtually free pass he has been given by
the media, the toothless opposition of the Republicans or the magnitude
of Obama’s first betrayal of his ideals.
In 2006 the Internal Revenue Service discovered that Geithner had not
paid he had failed to pay taxes in 2003 and 2004 because he had
incorrectly believed they were deducted at source by the IMF, where he
had moved after serving the treasury in the Clinton administration. He
duly paid about $17,230 in back taxes and interest.
After he was selected to lead the treasury in November, it was
discovered as part of his vetting that he owed a further $25,970 for
2001 and 2002 as well. That was the point Obama should have dropped
Geithner, instead he has championed him as the only man fit for this
major job in dire times.
It is just possible that Geithner, as he claimed, made an honest
mistake. But he has yet to provide a proper explanation of why when the
IRS told him he was due for 2003 and 2004 he did not then realize that
he owed taxes in the two earlier years. At his confirmation hearing,
none of the senators asked the question forcefully. Geithner blamed the
first mistake on the $30 Turbo Tax software programme he used to file
his returns himself, and the second on his accountant
The issue is that foreigners working at the IMF don’t pay taxes, but
American citizens do. The IMF raises their salaries in sympathy and
expects them to pay the tax themselves. It is all common knowledge among
the staff, she said.
Even if we take Mr Geithner at his word that these were “careless
mistakes, avoidable mistakes”, does the US really want someone who could
make that kind of blunder in charge of the Treasury, and the IRS?
The Wall Street Journal, which first reported the transgressions, has
done its job. Otherwise, there was been a scant amount criticism in the
media. Rush Limbaugh has ranted, the New York Times had one indignant
piece, and Jeffrey Klein in the Huffington Post accused Mr Geithner of
“serial cheating”.
Several commentators have pointed out that in normal circumstances his
failure to pay tax would have been fatal to his appointment. The worry
is that it could be normal for Obama to be given too easy a time.
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