Taxation with stupid representation
Too bad for Eric and Sarah Miller that they were not appointed to President Obama’s administration. Then they wouldn’t have had to worry about paying penalties on their back taxes.
The Round Rock, TX (really just an extension of north Austin) couple was penalized for taxes they thought they paid:
Eric and Sarah Miller call it the incompetency tax: $423.86 in tax penalties they paid to the Round Rock Independent School District under the threat of legal action, which they feared would damage their credit rating. The Millers want someone to hear their side, and they want their money back.
In June of 2008 the Millers bought their first investment property, a single-family home on Avery Island Avenue in Northwest Austin. In November, they received two tax bills from Travis County, one for their own home and one for their rental home. The couple said they paid both tax bills on time.
On May 27, the Millers received a letter from their mortgage company telling them they were delinquent on taxes totaling $2,294 owed to the Round Rock school district.
The Millers, who have no children, said they did not know their rental property was in the Round Rock school district, nor had they received a separate tax bill from the district.
The worst part of this story is that the Millers were penalized, not through any fault of their own, but a screw up at the School district. Imagine what the penalties would have been if they had intentionally failed to pay taxes. Like The head of the IRS and Obama appointee Timmy Geithner).
The emphasis on the tax penalty is mine. Because, like most normal Americans, when you run afoul of the IRS, in addition to having to pay the back taxes and interest on those taxes, there are almost always penalties to pay.
Unless, of course, you’re a tax-dodging politician who has been appointed to work in the Obama administration. For these lucky individuals, the reports and stories I’ve read always mention that the back taxes were paid back. Sometimes even with interest.
But NEVER any mention of any penalties. Nope, just pay what you owe and we’ll forget this ever happened…
Sadly, it appears that had these Obama’s tax-cheating appointees NOT been appointed by Obama and then (and only then) vetted — it’s likely they NEVER would have paid the taxes they owed. Speaking of…has Rep. Charles Rangel (D-NY) paid any interest or penalties on all of his deliberate tax-evading schemes yet?
My widowed mother-in-law paid a penalty because she over-paid her federal income tax.
My father-in-law died 2 days before hurricane Ike hit La Porte which resulted in too little taxes being owed. She received a refund, minus the penalty. More federal government incompetency.