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Designer clothing brand that devised AOC's 'Tax the Rich' Met Gala dress doesn't even pay its OWN taxes! Records show Aurora James' firm failed to pay state and federal taxes totaling $130,000
dailymail.co.uk ^ | 9/19/2021 | dailymail.co.uk

Posted on 09/19/2021 11:06:33 AM PDT by bitt

Designer clothing brand that devised AOC’s ‘Tax the Rich’ Met Gala dress doesn’t even pay its OWN taxes! Records show Aurora James’ firm failed to pay state and federal taxes totaling $130,000

Aurora James, 37, said the dress she designed for AOC sent a ‘powerful message’ but her own delinquent tax bills show she didn’t appear to take it to heart

The Brother Vellies founder has three open tax warrants in New York state for for failing to withhold income taxes from employees’ paychecks totaling $14,798

James’ firm was also the subject of six federal liens - legal claims against property for failing to pay a tax debt - totaling $103,220

The Canadian has also proved she has no problem taking money from taxpayers as her company received $41,666 in pandemic relief aid

AOC labeled James a ‘working class’ designer at the Met Gala but James bought a $1.6million Hollywood Hills home in September 2020

She reportedly still owes $2,504 in property taxes on the property

The 37-year-old fashion designer behind Rep Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s controversial ‘Tax the Rich’ dress she wore at the Met Gala has been accused of avoiding paying taxes her business owes, and has debts in multiple states.

Aurora James said the dress sent a ‘powerful message’ but her own delinquent tax bills appear to show she didn’t take it to heart. The successful designer’s debts are mostly owed by an LLC she formed in 2011 - Cultural Brokerage Agency - to serve as the parent company of her fashion brand, Brother Vellies.

According to the New York Post, as Beyonce, Rihanna and Meghan Markle became fan favorites of James’s luxury brand, the company racked up three open tax warrants in New York state for for failing to withhold income taxes from employees’ paychecks totaling $14,798.

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1 posted on 09/19/2021 11:06:33 AM PDT by bitt
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LOL !!!


2 posted on 09/19/2021 11:07:14 AM PDT by Tennessee Nana
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TYPICAL CHEATING DEMOCRAT!!


3 posted on 09/19/2021 11:07:58 AM PDT by Ann Archy (Abortion....... The HUMAN Sacrifice to the god of Convenience.)
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To: Whenifhow; null and void; aragorn; EnigmaticAnomaly; kalee; Kale; AZ .44 MAG; Baynative; bgill; ...

4 posted on 09/19/2021 11:08:08 AM PDT by bitt (<img src=' 'width=50%>)
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Hugely illegal.

Congressmen cannot take “gifts” of such value.


5 posted on 09/19/2021 11:08:38 AM PDT by ifinnegan ( Democrats kill babies and harvest their organs to sell)
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Aoc another epic fail. She is the face of the entire left and holds all their brain cells in her vote.


6 posted on 09/19/2021 11:11:30 AM PDT by patriot torch (Ashlie Babbitt-say her name)
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She is a member of the Biden-Harris-Pelosi-AOC-Hillary’s protected race and classes: A rich democrat who donates to democrat politicians.


7 posted on 09/19/2021 11:12:05 AM PDT by Robert A Cook PE (Method, motive, and opportunity: No morals, shear madness and hatred by those who cheat.)
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AOC: So all the free publicity my bare shoulders and my dimples gave them and they’re crying poormouth? Losers.


8 posted on 09/19/2021 11:12:49 AM PDT by frank ballenger (You have summoned up a thundercloud. You're gonna hear from me. Anthem by Leonard Cohen)
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It’s a shame we have to rely on British newspapers to do the work that US journalists somehow missed.


9 posted on 09/19/2021 11:14:54 AM PDT by mkmensinger
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IRONY ALERT..LOL I guess when AOC says Tax The Rich she means only the Conservatives who are rich, the commies who are rich are exempt


10 posted on 09/19/2021 11:15:43 AM PDT by Sarah Barracuda
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...the dress she designed for AOC sent a ‘powerful message’...

Indeed, it does. It shows how clueless and stupid AOC really is. The top 10% of income earners in the US pay about 72% of total IRS tax revenues while 51% pay no taxes at all. Assuming those people are not dead, some percentage of them are living off transfer payments that the other 49% are paying for in taxes. What AOC ignores is the jobs the rich create. You may envy Bezos and his billions, but he also writes pay checks to over 200,000 people who might otherwise not have a job. Same for Gates, Dell, Cuban, et al. Like it or not, it is the rich who invest in this country and provide jobs for hundreds of thousands of people. We glorify the poor in this country. Why? Indeed, how many of you were hired by a poor person.

11 posted on 09/19/2021 11:18:57 AM PDT by econjack (I'm not bossy. I just know what you should be doing.)
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well, now that it’s a public figure, let’s see what the IRS has to say?

wait, nevermind...


12 posted on 09/19/2021 11:23:01 AM PDT by Chode (there is no fall back position, there's no rally point, there is no LZ... we're on our own. P144:1)
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They should be mocked.


13 posted on 09/19/2021 11:23:42 AM PDT by griswold3 (When chaos serves the State, the State will encourage chaos)
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TAX THE REICH!


14 posted on 09/19/2021 11:25:25 AM PDT by cockroach_magoo
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Oh my, my,
Oh, hell yes,
Got to put on that party dress.

Credit Tom Petty.


15 posted on 09/19/2021 11:30:02 AM PDT by BartMan1 (In for penny, in for a pound)
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To: bitt; Liz; poconopundit; null and void
The Brother Vellies founder has three open tax warrants in New York state for for failing to withhold income taxes from employees’ paychecks totaling $14,798

James’ firm was also the subject of six federal liens - legal claims against property for failing to pay a tax debt - totaling $103,220

The Canadian has also proved she has no problem taking money from taxpayers as her company received $41,666 in pandemic relief aid

Nothing screams 'liberal elite' like a stinking messy combination of corruption, greed and hypocrisy...

16 posted on 09/19/2021 11:32:23 AM PDT by GOPJ (Try Milley and his commie cabal for treason - then put them to death.It'll be a lesson for the young)
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Seems to me AOC had her own issues with unpaid taxes. Has she paid them yet?


17 posted on 09/19/2021 11:43:56 AM PDT by _longranger81
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How far behind is AOC on her taxes ?


18 posted on 09/19/2021 1:58:13 PM PDT by butlerweave
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Good grief!
Are you telling us she is niggardly in paying her taxes?


19 posted on 09/19/2021 2:10:13 PM PDT by SuperLuminal (Where is another Sam Adams now that we desperately need him?)
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Tax the rich, however I won’t pay property taxes on my Hollywood Hill house... That would be racist, if I have to pay!! 🤓


20 posted on 09/19/2021 3:05:02 PM PDT by Deplorable American1776 (I'm the one trying to save American Democracy...Donald Trump 6/21 at the NCGOP convention)
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