The Internal Revenue Service has filed a tax lien seeking more than $800,000 from Sen. John Kerry's 2004 presidential campaign, escalating a dispute over payroll taxes that the lawmaker's office blames on faulty government paperwork.
The episode has left a candidate who fell just a few percentage points short of winning the White House trying to convince the government's tax collector that his campaign already paid the taxes and doesn't owe any more.
The IRS filed the lien in the District of Columbia earlier this year, claiming that a previous attempt to collect the money was unsuccessful. "We have made a demand for payment of this liability, but it remains unpaid," the tax filing stated.
The IRS is taking action more than a year after the campaign closed its books and sent nearly $200,000 in leftover presidential campaign money to Mr. Kerry's Senate election fund.
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Nice to see the IRS going after a lefty for a change. We need to stay on this one though, as Obama may be tempted to use his power of administration to sweep this away.
Highly ironic that a Democrat is in such tax troubles. They have come up with such bizarre tax ideas ( for a top ten list of some of the more silly taxation ideas, you can view: http://firstconservative.com/blog/political-humor/political-humor-creative-taxation )
Kerry should have to fork over the money for this himself. Every other taxpayer would be expected to - especially when government needs the revenue.
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