FYI:
Tax troubles have tripped up another Obama administration official.
Nancy Killefer withdrew from consideration to be the federal government’s chief performance officer — a new position — because of her past failure to pay unemployment taxes for household help at her D.C. home.
“I recognize that your agenda and the duties facing your chief performance officer are urgent,” Killefer wrote in a letter to President Barack Obama Tuesday. “I have also come to realize in the current environment that my personal tax issue of D.C. unemployment tax could be used to create exactly the kind of distraction and delay those duties must avoid. Because of this I must reluctantly ask you to withdraw my name from consideration.”
Killefer has been a senior director at McKinsey & Co. and worked in the Treasury Department during the Clinton administration.
FROM:
http://www.bizjournals.com/washington/stories/2009/02/02/daily38.html
Sad isn’t it? Al Capone went to prison for tax evasion; today if you refuse to pay your taxes you get Presidential cabinet appointments. Who knew Capone was a Republican? Guess its the new ‘change’ and ‘transparency’ in government. Felons need apply.
On the other hand maybe we should all send a note of thanks to the Democrats in congress for their ‘new tax plan’. DON’T PAY TAXES! Whoo hoo!