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No way…another Obama appointee with tax troubles?

Is there some special tax evader magnet over the White House these days?  Details:

President Obama’s choice as chief of protocol for the State Department, a position that carries the status of an ambassadorship, did not file tax returns for 2005 and 2006, errors she corrected last November.

The nominee, Capricia Penavic Marshall, has placed blame for the problem on the Postal Service and on miscommunication between her husband and their accountant.
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In her written answers and in accounts she gave to government officials, Ms. Marshall has said the errors were unintentional. She has said that her husband failed to recognize that the couple’s accountant had included the tax returns for 2005 in a binder he provided with copies of the returns, and that the actual paperwork was never mailed.

The couple learned something was awry, Ms. Marshall has said, when the Internal Revenue Service notified them last fall that their 2006 return had never arrived. She wrote that an agent “advised us that there were a large number of tax returns misplaced by the D.C. post office for the 2006 tax year.”

That call led the couple to the discovery that the authorities had no record of their returns for 2005 and 2006. No late fees or penalties were assessed when they later submitted the returns.

Two years in a row?  Notes Ed:

Does the dog eat her homework, too?

It seems awfully convenient that the one post office that lost “a large number of tax returns” was the one that would handle returns for most federal officeholders and their staffs, too.  Isn’t it a little remarkable that the IRS didn’t penalize the Marshalls for late returns?  Those of us who don’t work on Hillary Clinton’s staff would not get treated so kindly.  Besides, If the DC post office lost “a large number of tax returns” in 2006, why did that let them off the hook for 2005?

If you voted for Obama, do you still pay your taxes…and if so, why?  His appointees don’t, and apparently, there’s no fallout for failing to do so.

June 19, 2009 Posted by crushliberalism | Obama, shameful, taxes | Leave a Comment