For those of you who can’t find zhu zhu pets, here’s an option sure to bring a smile – a long-sleeved t-shirt honoring the Secretary of the Treasury. Maybe if you’ve been very good all year long, Santa will bring you a special Tim “Turbotax” Geithner free pass, allowing you to cheat on your taxes and get away with no penalties once you’re caught!
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December 23, 2009 by Dan Mitchell
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[...] it be for them to walk down the hallway and cough up? Or do they think they’re exempt since their boss barely got a slap on the wrist after “forgetting” to declare $80,000? The most startling part of the story, though, is the degree of tax dodging on Capitol Hill. [...]
[...] can it be for them to walk down the hallway and cough up? Or do they think they’re exempt since their boss barely got a slap on the wrist after “forgetting” to declare $80,000? The most startling part of the story, though, is the degree of tax dodging on Capitol Hill. [...]
[...] Among the biggest scofflaws are the folks at the Postal Service, who have accumulated more than $283 million of unpaid taxes. Retired bureaucrats, meanwhile, have amassed nearly $455 million of back taxes. Even tax collectors sometimes fall behind. Treasury Department bureaucrats owe $7.7 million. How hard can it be for them to walk down the hallway and cough up? Or do they think they’re exempt since their boss barely got a slap on the wrist after “forgetting” to declare $80,000? [...]
[...] suspect that even Tim “Turbotax” Geithner would be smart enough to avoid such a claim today, not after the Fed’s announcement (with the full [...]
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[...] about Tim Geithner, the Treasury Secretary who is in charge of the Internal Revenue Service but got a free pass after illegally hiding $80,000 of income from the IRS. I’m talking about the President and his personal fleet of [...]
[...] about Tim Geithner, the Treasury Secretary who is in charge of the Internal Revenue Service but got a free pass after illegally hiding $80,000 of income from the IRS. I’m talking about the President and his personal fleet of [...]
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[...] Tim Geithner may be most famous in the United States for cheating on his taxes (you can even buy a t-shirt to acknowledge his tax dodging), but he’s becoming a punch line in the rest of the world for different [...]
[...] a punchline in his own country because he oversees the IRS even though he conveniently forget to declare $80,000 of income (and [...]
[...] a punchline in his own country because he oversees the IRS even though he conveniently forgot to declare $80,000 of income (and [...]
[...] Not only did Geithner avoid even a slap on the wrist, he was confirmed to head the department that includes the IRS. So you can understand why a clever person came up with this t-shirt mocking the Treasury Secretary. [...]
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[...] prior years, I’ve shared IRS Christmas gifts and presents from Ben [...]
[...] prior years, I’ve shared IRS Christmas gifts and presents from Ben [...]
[...] But such concerns don’t matter to the tax cheat who is serving as the Treasury Secretary. [...]
[...] One of the leading Lib Dem politicians got caught dodging taxes, making him the British version of America’s tax-cheating Treasury Secretary. I generally don’t object when people try to protect their income from greedy and incompetent [...]
[...] It’s rather galling, by the way, to be lectured on taxes by a tax cheat like Tim Geithner. [...]
Dan, you might enjoy this about Mr. Geithner:
https://renounceuscitizenship.wordpress.com/2011/12/22/geithner-tax-penalty-waiver-offends-the-rule-of-law/
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