Another tax cheat chosen by Obama
You cannot make this stuff up. Tom Daschle, nominee to head up HHS, failed to pay $128,000 in taxes. But fear not, he said he didn't know he had to pay it so its all good;
So you see it was just a common mistake made all the time. I wonder if that excuse would work for me?
Daschle's spokeswoman, revealing only the back payments for the car service, said he "naively" believed it was "nothing more than a generous offer from a friend." The spokeswoman, Jenny Backus, said that last June Daschle asked his accountant whether the car could be construed as a reportable gift or payment. The accountant intended to correct the error with Daschle's 2008 tax filing, she said.
So you see it was just a common mistake made all the time. I wonder if that excuse would work for me?
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