Posted on 06/26/2009 5:33:34 PM PDT by JoeProBono
Another month, another tax lien for Duane “Dog” Chapman.
The Honolulu-based TV bounty hunter and his wife Alice E. Smith, known as Beth Chapman, owe $1.8 million to the Internal Revenue Service on 2006 and 2007 income, according to a federal tax lien recorded May 19 by the Hawaii Bureau of Conveyances.
The liens come five months after liens totalling more than $2 million were filed in Hawaii against the Chapmans for unpaid taxes from 2002 through 2005.
The Chapmans’ Los Angeles-based accountant, Dennis Duban, told PBN in February that some of the federal tax bills had already been paid and blamed a lag between the time of payment and the release of the liens.
But according to records on file with the Bureau of Conveyances, none of the liens filed in January have been released.
Duban was out of the office this week and was not available for comment.
Chapman, who owns Da Kine Bail Bonds on Queen Emma Street and lives in Hawaii Kai, stars in the A&E program “Dog the Bounty Hunter.”
In 2006, the IRS filed liens against Chapman for almost $200,000 in 2004 income but in early 2007 Duban said those tax bills had been paid. The IRS had previously filed liens against him for unpaid 1993 and 1994 income.
A very very weird couple. Screw the IRS.
Anyone who doesn’t pay taxes is an instant patriot in my book these days.
Unless they promote higher taxes. Then they’re a hypocrite and should end up in the slammer.
I once screwed up on some form, paid the tax but didn’t check the correct box. Two years later, dozens of letters, mountains of contradictory instructions form the IRS I finally figured out what the problem was. Filled the correct forms and marked the correct boxes. Everything was perfect.
Then the IRS applied them to the wrong year.
Obammy should appoint him to a cabinet position.
Don’t mess with the tax stuff, they will close you down.
Maybe Dog can go get Obama’s birth certificate, collect the 1 million award and pay off the IRS.
It's gotta be some sort of insecurity or self esteem thang....
Maybe he could serve the warrants or apprehend the individuals indicted by the American Grand Jury! escort them to GITMO.
Years ago, my late husband screwed up something and we ended up owing taxes. I entered into an agreement w/the IRS and paid faithfully every month. After I made the last payment, the IRS contacted me and wanted to know where was the check.
I told them they’d already cashed it and I had the canceled check. They required that I send them a copy of the front and back of the check, which I did, and they got off my back. I was a little ticked off that I had to do their work, but at least I had proof that I’d paid.
I have an LLM in Taxation. Two people in my cohort were in the IRS. Their war stories indicating a lack of coordination, an inability (and often unwillingness) for reps to put themselves in the taxpayer’s place, a lack of basic business knowledge, and the inability of computers to ‘talk’ to each other (at the time, they needed 7 computers to deal w/1 taxpayer), was staggering.
I’ve had a couple of minor run ins w/the IRS since then and though their computer system has improved, they are still an a$$ backward organization, even for the gubmint.
Which never made sense to me- when they shut your business- then how do they expect you to pay?
The upshot is, I have a lot of respect for the CPAs that can keep the tax code straight. I have just about zero respect for the IRS. Talk about your terrorist organizations. There's not enough room here to go into how they came after my brother-in-law. However, I also have zero sympathy for public figures that get themselves in this deep, this long. They and their accountants have to know they are stepping over the line.
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