Posted on 01/30/2009 3:57:40 PM PST by MindBender26
Bumps in the Road: Obama's HHS Secretary Nominee Faces Tax Questions Over Car and Driver
ABC News has learned that the nomination of former Senator Majority Leader Tom Daschle, D-S.D., to be President Obama's Secretary of Health and Human Services has hit a traffic snarl on its way through the Senate Finance Committee.
The controversy deals with a car and driver lent to Daschle by a wealthy Democratic friend, a chauffeur service the former senator used for years without declaring it on his taxes.
After being defeated in his 2004 re-election campaign to the Senate, Daschle in 2005 became a consultant and chairman of the Executive Advisory Board at InterMedia Advisors.
Based in New York City, InterMedia Advisors is a private equity firm founded in part by longtime Daschle friend and Democratic fundraiser Leo Hindery,
That same year he began his professional relationship with InterMedia 2005, Daschle began using the services of Hindery's car and driver.
The Cadillac and driver were never part of Daschle's official compensation package at InterMedia but Mr. Daschle -- who as Senate majority leader enjoyed the use of a car and driver at taxpayer expense -- didn't declare their services on his income taxes, as tax laws require.
During the vetting process to become HHS secretary, Daschle corrected the tax violation, voluntarily paying $101,943 in back taxes plus interest, working with his accountant to amend his tax returns for 2005 through 2007.
Daschle reimbursed the IRS $31,462 in taxes and interest for tax year 2005; $35,546 for 2006; and $34,935, for 2007.
The chairman of the Senate Finance Committee, Sen. Max Baucus, D-Mont., has called his colleagues for a private meeting at 5 p.m. ET Monday to discuss these complications surrounding Daschle's nomination.
(Excerpt) Read more at blogs.abcnews.com ...
Another day, Another Dem, Another Scam!
“Rangel Rule”!
Do any Democrats pay taxes?
Are all Ponzi scammers like Bernie and Jay Nadel (just arrestd in Sarasota $350 million) big Democrat contributors?
Another honest mistake that could have happened to anyone, but only happens to the people who created the tax code in the first place?
-PJ
Another democrat tax cheat now eligible to be Secretary of the Treasury.
A cheating, lying little weasel. Always was...always will be.
I find this troubling, Tom.
Aw geesh, another democrat crook. Thanks to all you moron democrat voters who are supposedly content with the crumbs that your fraud POTUS is dealing out.
Obama= another fraud democrat.
Just the middle class morons.
mee tooooo. It just goes to show you, pro aborts do NOT have anyone interests at heart but their own. when you advocate sacrificing a baby to the god of convenience, you cant be trusted on anything else either. These buffoons prove me right more and more every day.
That's more than 28%!
Who do they think they are, the University of Florida Gator Football Team?
So, if his feet hadn’t been held to the fire by virtue of another chance to slop at the public trough he would not have bothered to fix the problem. What a crock. We could probably completely pay off the public debt if they just audited all the people in Congress.
If I could pass but one law in the whole world it would be that members of Congress have to live by the same laws the common folk do, period. No special retirement benefits, no special health care deals, no comp parking at the airport, etc. Every law/rule that my wife and I have to live by would be their burden too.
And by the way, I don’t see any mention of him paying a penalty for failing to file correctly in the first place. I had a run in with IRS some years ago and a $6,500 tax bill became over $27,000 with interest and the 100% penalty the added.
No wonder these Democrats get wealthy...they don’t pay taxes.
I am changing my party affiliation on Monday. My new accountant will be selected from the ACORN-approved list.
Remember behind every great fortune, there is a crime.
This is going to be fun to watch, post-Geitner confirmation.
Blame it on Turbo Tax, Tom.
I’m sure he’s deeply saddened.
Ve vill be haskink quvestions!
Ja?
But Obama will say that they are too important to him in this time of crisis, and must be confirmed.
Who do they think they are, the University of Florida Gator Football Team?
Watch it, buddy... You must mean the Florida State Seminoles. ;-) Seriously, it was FSU, not UF.
-PJ
Heck, none of these rich Dems pay their taxes. I am self-employed and virtually impoverished by tax payments I have had to make for several years because of the collapse of my income stream during one year (I had to live on what I had saved to pay the IRS). Why in the world are these people, who probably earn at least 30 times my highest income, being permitted to skate like this?
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.