Tax Problems for Sebelius

Well if these mistakes are minor, why is this a front page story?

Taxcheat: prerequisite to Obama adminstn

OK guys i didn’t even vote for him, but seriously? She and her husband combined over 3 years probably make high six figures combined. You’re gonna protest about an almost certainly innocent mistake of 7 thousand? AND they paid the interest! Simmer down…

The money may not be much (it really isn’t) but the pattern is well established now – if you want a place in BHO’s cabinet, you must be first be a tax cheat…
How do YOU spell double standard?

What is it with all of Obama’s cabinet choices? Geesh

This isn’t funny anymore. Obama and his cronies are an absolute disgrace to the offices that they hold. I wouldn’t trust them to make me a g-d Big Mac, for Christ’s sake.
I hope those of you who voted for this loser are pleased with yourselves. And while you’re paying your tax bills this year, I hope you feel every penny of it. Idiots.

Has anyone vetted Barak Obama?

It is simply amazing that so many of the nominees are paying back taxes after being nominated by Obama. At this rate maybe the deficit could get reduced if Obama does not appoint anyone to the position but keeps nominating new people after the taxes are recovered. Anyway, as Obama clearly stated he is not after getting perfect people but those who can get the job done. As long as the same criteria are used and no one who has made mistakes in the past is allowed in, I would say that may be okay, we can allow some slack.

Eric hit the nail on the head. Now someone will have to figure out how to wrest control over the country from the special interests…..that is the Democrats and the Republicans.

Good Lord… you Obama bashers should be ashamed…. He has a huge mess to clean up that YOU caused with your last two presidential votes! You guys are SO going to be the dorks in this chapter of the history book. Go volunteer at a food bank this weekend and do your part to help out…. GROW UP AMERICA.. no one can fix it but YOU… no man, no woman…. just YOU….

If these people are not detail-oriented enough to pay all their taxes; then how in the world are they going to govern well.? This is not just one person now but too many for an administration.

I meant..Stacy!’

Everybody in this nation is being taxed to death and the rules are so hard to follow that even this high paid nominee needed help. What is the answer? Form a national sales tax! NO MORE IRS! This change in itself would stop these errors and make the tax code fair! It would also save us all a lot of money and headaches.

no wonder democrats like raising taxes, they don’t pay them anyhow

OMG…Make me angry..
I work so hard and pay all the tax by law.
These politicians don’t follow the law..huh!

adfa

someone needs to audit the IRS software. every corrected return I’ve sent in resulted in a refund. yet every refund I received was attributed to an incorrect year because the software wouldn’t let the agents attribute it to the year I was entitled to the refund. I can’t wait for their audit. We will all be gasping in explanation “oh — that’s how they did it!” Of course getting to the “oh” moment will cause great consternation amidst fellow IRS agents who will not know how to undo what damage will be caused when their new software won’t figure out first. If this sentence (the one you just read) makes no sense — then you are following the logic of the IRS toll free assistance number. Sooner or later you’ll get to the right conclusion. Don’t give up. FYI – what do you do when your employers fail to file W-2; victimize the tax payer who paid into the system in the way of excessive phone bills to get the W-2 filed in time by hounding the people who claim they paid into the local, state and federal government on your behalf. I’m deducting my phone bill unde the auspices of tax preparation. In conclusion, how much money do we need to use to track how much money we could use. What’s the owerhead figure for administrative costs in the united states? let’s cut to the chase — what if I told you I don’t need to tell you how much I make and I’m going to put all the money in my own health care account and manage the funds myself and attribute my health and well being to minimizing the tax-induced stress-related dis EASE caused by all of you people filing your returns too late for me to obtain my refund on time. $14 MILLION DOLLARS. That’s the future value of the present cost of your past mistakes. Still not making any sense. Well the next time I obtain a 1999 refund for a 2004 filing in 2008 I’ll explain it to you more succinctly. That’s how the IRS explained it to me: you’ll get it (your refund) faster that way….in 60 to 90 days. I suggested they keep petty cash on hand. They told me “we can’t do it that way.” I stated “Why not?” The IRS tax agent badge that day stated — “because whatever information I collect today has to be transmitted to Philadelphia to issue a check from California to be printed out of Cincinnati to be mailed to your former mailing address (2004) and marked return to sender in spite of the fact you performed a change of address in 2006 that expired in 2006 (what happened to forever after?) and was marked return to sender in 2008. Why, I want to know, was not the sender the guy in the IRS Agent suit, not willing to submit a receipt to petty cash for two twenty dollar bills? The cash on hand concept is not exceptionally new but it will do two things: (1) save time (2) save money. Now how’s that for an cornerstone in a new economic strategy? Recap: to save time and money cut out the middle man and straight away – -give the money directly to me in the way of something similar to the Boston Tea party’s approach to the tea tax. That’s right. Dump my hard earned money all over me. I’m not drowning now. But I will be when I see the P & I for those filling out my tax refund paperwork at T-14 days and counting. Still don’t get it? Why don’t you try to file on time some year “they’ll ask me that.” and I’ll say — because you didn’t prosecute the university which taught me 3 things: never say anything wrong, never admit anywrong doing, and never refund your student’s tuition on time — in spite of the fact they failed to attend 60 percent of classes to overcome a fatal mistake made by a physicians training inside their firewalls of blame-proof layering lawyers. Still don’t make any sense of this? Three PhDs will need to analyze substinative subtext. It’s why we C3P0s like to say a judge is only as good as the robot that got the program out of central dispatch and downloaded it into my mainframe. I’m not a robot you see. I just learned from the U.S. Department of Energy that “when do you really need it by” applies to me only when I do something wrong. This still doesn’t make any sense . Not wrong. That’s because the financial engineering community deals in negativity. I don’t mind you going on and droning on about this nonsensical stuff — but why make it so tough on the rest of us. Just use your last pay stub to file an early return and cut out the W-2s. completely. There, now you’ve saved all the time and money you can and cut out all of the middle people who want to know how you spent your time and money. Massive unemployment will teach them a lesson, LES is more . The less information you ask for the more likely the economy will get out of it’s Not Really Reduced Reduction in Paper Work 2003 Work Force Development Act misery status quo style pain in the tuchas modus operandi and we’ll lay them off and subject them to the 20 page questionaire administered by each state non-government agency? Then they’ll know how it feels to be real.
Anyone want to know why the Boston Big Dig didn’t succeed all by itself? Follow through!

Unbelieveable…another one…gee what a surprise. This is TOTALLY UNACCEPTABLE. Why do we have to ACCEPT this individual? NOPE…NOT RIGHT!!!

Uhm … excuse me … since so many of Obama’s cabinet appointees have had tax errors, I got to wondering … Is anyone working in IRS anymore and is their automated audit checking system working also? Just how many tax errors are in the IRS filings the past few years that weren’t caught in a manual or automated audit? I mean, if Treasury didn’t catch the other financial missteps, isn’t it pretty obvious their lack of competency was pandemic and spread to IRS too?

IRS -Inquisition Reserve for public Servant…. Please don’t mess with ordinary folk

What do you suppose the liberals would be saying if this was The Bush administration

I wonder how many of YOU would have tax problems if they were examined with the kind of depth that these people submit to. Our tax code is so long, so complex, and so confusing that no person can understand it without extensive study. And still mistakes are made. Even tax pros can disagree on things. Lets get to a flat tax and get rid of all the gray areas.

Stop being haters republican.. just cuz OBAMAS you new DADDY…..

Let us be real here. What you cynical bashers of all things that come to your attention need to see is the fact that Obama is keeping his administration honest and open. If there is a problem they are not afraid to air it to even the likes of you. I.E. they care how “you” try to twist it because at least the are “trying” to do the right thing. What you fail to see or have blinded yourself to it and or it was hidden from your sight was how the last administration handled such things. They would either not investigate such possibilies, and if known, cover up that it happened or deny it or define it as trivial and unimportant. Of course those of you that can only support your own prejudices would not understand any of this. hmmm, should we support an open and honest administration or an administration that hides and lies and distorts everything and than uses it’s presidential powers to keep from you blinded instead of being “open” and “honest” with the people that elected them? Hmm, which one would I want? Hmmmm?

I repeat….who vetted the President? Obviously, the Democratic Party. Have they asked the IRS to review his tax returns….or to have them independently audited? Let’s audit all the senators and the congressmen, too! Wholesale retirements would probably be in store. The problem is that the OWNERS of the store are these very people.

Almost every year – some news programs run sure fire ratings getters – you take moderately complex, identical returns to 10 different tax prep outfits – and get 10 different taxes due amounts. We’ve all seen these stories.
So here we have people going through the equivalent of a the dreaded “compliance audit” – where you have to show every single receipt for every single dollar you claimed and giving it the most conservative possible approach. I would love to see the right wing dipsticks that have posted here get the same audits and see how they faire under similar scrutiny. Love to see some volunteers.

The pattern of behavior has been established.
Democrat=I do not pay what is owed
Republican=we need to soak those rich bastards
Banker=don’t even think about earning a living
I believe I am ready to take to the streets, who is with me?

Hey all you tea party people. Wake up the Gov does not care what you think. They have the power and they will do whatever they want when they want and you cannot do anything about it. I am sure they are just laughing at you.

This is ridicules! Are all our politicians tax cheats? They should all be audited.

This is a test of sorts as I got into a bit of trouble the other night. I’m no particular fan of Kathleen and lean to conservatism, but I don’t see that big of a deal about it. She took the precautionary measure of squaring the business away with a CPA and the IRS. I guess my point is if you went over Republicans’ tax returns with the scrutiny applied to these cabinet appointees, you’d find similar. A big brouhaha was made about Sarah Palin’s taxes, and IIRC when it was first released to the media way back when, an accountant-type here said she had done nothing illegal. It turned out otherwise at least on her Alaska return. Here’s an example, the capital gains tax on selling your home rule has changed if I understand that right. I’ve had umpteen capital “improvements” and upgrades on my modest home, still nowhere near what it should be. Problem is where are all the receipts? I don’t have them. So if that rule were still in effect, I’d lose a lot of money I honestly paid but just can’t prove with receipts. Three new furnaces and two roofing jobs in 40 years, just for starters.

$878 in penalties? You have got to be kidding. They got a deal! I haven’t filed/paid taxes since 2001 and I have seen what the interest and penalties are – OUTRAGEOUS! Like I ssaid, if the only paid $878 in penalties they got a deal, but there’s no surprise in that preferential treatment either!

BridgetoSomewhere, If I recall even
Monsignor John McCain, “forgot” to pay
taxes on one of his several houses.
I also agree with you, the ones who
are complaining the most are known
to be cheaters themselves. “The pot
calls the kettle black!”

How do you “unintentionally” claim the mortgage interest on a home that you have “sold?!?” Because it was NOT unintentional !!!! Sebelius is just another dishonest politician. Dime a dozen.

Imagine if these folks were Republicans. They would call for impeachment by now.
So much for “change”. So much for Queen Nancy’s “most ethical congress”.
2010, here we come. That’s when REAL change will happen.

Ok.. Enough is enough! How many crooks is this guy going to hire? Tax cheats and tax evaders are all the same. This inept and incompetent leader of ours is just unbelievable. America, reap what we’ve sown. We’ve elected an idiot into office. His Chicago politics are and will continue to be a mistake. The mob has taken over. God save our country!

“Let us be real here. What you cynical bashers of all things that come to your attention need to see is the fact that Obama is keeping his administration honest and open. If there is a problem they are not afraid to air it to even the likes of you.”
How long have you been crazy?

Are all democrats cheating on their taxes?

I apologize, forgot to add – hey, you wonderful, incitefull (soo important) ladies of the VIEW – where are you? – hey, I forgot, President Bush caused all this – right?

What about Chris Dodds? Has he paid his taxes???

You can keep up your silly diatribes about “tax cheats” all you want, folks-of-the-right-wing.
But be very careful — yes, absolutely! 2010 is coming. And then 2012… let the fun begin!
If you really think Palin (for example… she had some serious tax problems herself, if you can fathom an honest memory) and the rest of the Republican hopefuls will be spared this kind of media scrutiny… you haven’t been paying attention.
The media just loves to stir it up.
PS — maybe we should have every media person tax-audited???
Now THAT… would be real fun!

Why do the rest of us pay taxes and the Dems get by without until Obama offers them a big job?
What is the count now? Besides our SD Senator, Tom.

Burke…
Your opinion has merit, however — there really IS a difference of viewpoint POLITICALLY that is espoused on message boards.
People who look at issues from one perspective can be called “right/or right-wing” and those from another opposed mind set can be called “left/or left-wing”.
It is the nature of humans to hold to opinions.
Like I said — you have yours. It is the “different face” you speak of that identifies these divergent views.

I love America.
And I also love my Honda Civic (mine, made in Canada, by the way)… if only our companies could make such reliable autos that keep their value.
A little thing called “planned obsolescence” is what has kept the greed alive and the American automaker has suffered instead of thrived due to the theory.
Look it up. Be informed.

Plainsm…I agree with you. You said
“Taxcheat: prerequisite to Obama adminstn”.. It sure is. To many tax cheats to count.LOL

ALEX JONES IS RIGHT! THESE PEOPLE ARE THIEVES!

She’s either a liar or an incompetent. But in the end, what difference does it make? Either type of person shouldn’t be offered a position of power. What a farce this administration has become – and in only 90 days or so. Only about 3 years and 270 days to go…

Several Obama administration nominees have been derailed by tax issues, notably the president’s first nominee for HHS secretary, former Senate Democratic leader Tom Daschle. He withdrew from consideration while apologizing for failing to pay $140,000 in taxes and interest.
Timothy Geithner also faced questions about his failure to pay back taxes before the Senate confirmed him as Obama’s treasury secretary. Geithner apologized, saying it was an honest mistake.
And Hilda Solis was confirmed as Obama’s labor secretary only after the confirmation process was delayed by news reports that Solis’ husband recently had settled unpaid tax liens on his California auto repair business for about $6,400. White House officials said Solis and her husband were not aware of the liens.

These events make the projected tax hikes rather ironic.

Have none of these folks heard of H&R Block? Amazing when their feet are held to the fire and their past is held up to scrutiny…they suddenly see unintentional errors. In this case three years in a row???????? That is a stretch.

gman… much better choice than Palin was to GW.:you wrote….what?.. Palin was to GW?…first of all Palin was nothign to GW, Second she was VP running mate to McCain. Third, SHE PAID TAXES….WOW!!!!!!!

frankcampos | Excuse me…Ms Hillary voted for it as did many of the dems in the Senate..don’t rewrite history!

Wonder if any of the people who are saying, No big deal, they paid so what, it ws just a mistake….would try to not pay their taxes.
I DOUBT IT!!! The IRS comes after you, etc. Gee if they try could we use “I voted for Obama” as an excuse.
I DOUBT IT…Let’s talk about some integrity…then again do they have any!!

What amuses me about this is that if George Bush had this same experience with his cabinet, it would never, never leave the front pages or ABC, CBS or NBC news. But, since it’s the darling of the media with this problem, it’s just a minor thing that not a particularly big deal. The media has made Obama, they have a huge investment in seeing him succeed.

I have been arguing with the IRS about my 06 return since 07. I don’t owe the money and they admit I don’t owe it but they say my preparer didn’t fill out the right form. So far two preparers and one attorney haven’t been able to figure out which form that is. They are threatening to seize assets for $4,500.
Our esteemed leader has been nominating people who intentionally don’t pay taxes they actually owe and we’re expected to accept it because it’s only a mere $7,918.
They’re threatening to “seize assets” over $4,500 I don’t owe but it’s okay for one of the elite to not pay $7,918 she actually owes.
Must be nice to be one of the elite instead of one of the proletariat.

Wow! I’m starting to think that either all of the nominee’s are corrupt or the tax code is too complicated. How about a flat tax (?) and then we won’t expose all of the corrupt politicians

Don,
Don’t forget to file expense reports to collect your per diem while you sleep in your own bed.

Ron,
Where have you been the past 8 years?

Some people believe the issue of the President’s birth certificate has been resolved, is it true? If so, then why would he send lawyers into court to block the release of his original birth certificate (not the abstract seen on the Internet)? What could he be hiding? Why won’t the press look into this? If you want to be informed, then check out this link
http://24ahead.com/s/obama-citizenship

The comments that are being made over 7 grand are beyond hysterical to me. Come on is that even going to make a dent in all the back taxes owed by americans. All you self righteous republicans making these comments, I am sure there are plenty of you out there that have not paid your taxes. Those who live in glass houses should not throw stones.

So, cheating on taxes is ok. Fine. Count me in.

The government must reap what it sows. America, the message is as follows: LIE ON YOUR 1040!!! I am certainly going to lie – I have a lot that requires honest reporting (like overseas bank accounts in my asian name and overseas income). HOW CAN THEY POSSIBLY FIND OUT?!! They are clearly telling me NOT to report this income. Without it, I am eligible for the earned income exclusion. WHERE’S MY CHECK, GEITHNER? I MADE OVER $140,000 in 2008 and will claim the earned income exclusion!! Thanks for the message, government. I have learned it well and got it loud and clear.

Man!! Why are all these commenter and people here SO over this tax issue problem?!!! Before you call someone a tax cheat, you’ll need to see if the person HAS the INTENT to hide additional money from the government and IRS. I believe that it’s because the complexity of the tax code that many of these picks misrepresented their tax(those thick stacks of tax forms, gray fine prints on the last page, and those GAZILLIONS whatchamacallit rules.)
AT least, people, this is “TRANSPARENCY”; we know who missed their taxes and we’re not kept in the dark about it; we know every single cent they didn’t pay to the government.
As for Sebelius, she paid off the $7,000 she owed already, she just reported it just in case the Senate misunderstood her and scrutinize it. Calm Down, Guys!!!

“$7,040 in back taxes and $878 in interest” – That’s not small potatoes. I can’t believe there are so many of his nominees with Tax problems and everyone keeps brushing it off as “minor” mistakes. These are the people that are supposed to be smart enough to run our country. Maybe they’re showing us just how easy it is to cheat on your taxes.

The vetting process failed in the beginning with the “vetting” of Obama. Why shud we think it anymore capable now?

The Falcon,
The Problem is Blind Partisan Trust and too many taxes. Not the Wealthy.
If you want a Real reform of Taxes, how about a National Sales tax? Or a Flat Tax? Then those of us that work 2 jobs will get to take more home and it will be easier fo all of us to become Wealthy.
Instead of what is happening now which is we are all getting Poorer. This will only get worse with more irresponsible Spending by the Government.
Oh and according to the Rest of the World….even our Poor is Wealthy…

Willy wrote: “”$7,040 in back taxes and $878 in interest” – That’s not small potatoes.”
Actually it is when you consider that it was for 2 people (husband and wife) over a 3 year period. And I think it’s safe to say these 2 were earning a tad more than minimum wage during this time.

Oh, give us a break, One_American. A rabid democrat could write the very same thing about Republicans, only by changing the word socialist to fascist. This constant name calling, not to mention some of the vulgarity, doesn´t get us anywhere. The problem here is with the tax codes which encourages carelessness (as in the case of Sibelius,) confusion (perhaps for Daschle) and real shenanigans as in the case of Geithner and how many other rich people who find a lot of loopholes.
You think Bush appointees and other assorted Republicans never made m “mistakes” with their taxes? That´s good for a few laughs.

Um? you are an idiot. It doesn’t matter how much, it is the fact they know they would get caught and did it anyway. You have to be really stupid to let this go, or is it okay because they are Dems? The old hypocritical double standard that you liberals have. You would crucify Bush for this, so you are nothing more than a liar and hypocrite. Obama is proving he is not only a fraud but not qualified to hold the presidency. He’s running under 50% getting through Congress due to criminal acts.

this is one way to increase government revenue, keep letting obama nominate democrates for jobs! by the way, does anyone know if obama has been audited himself? if not, we’re probably missing out on some more money there as well. we could get him to pay for fudging his and princess michelle’s taxes next.

This is truly change we can all believe in. What a bunch of bologna. How did so many Americans fall for this bumper sticker B.S.?
My guess is barry will take on washington’s corruption problems about as much as he did in chicago- which is never.

Seems to be a trend!

Come on PEOPLE! This would only be news if it was Republican. If they are Democrat it is a minor oversight. Get back to the script!