'Dog' Chapman hit with $1.8M IRS tax lien

bizjournals ^ | June 26, 2009,

[JoeProBono]

[JoeProBono]

[JoeProBono]

[driftdiver]

A very very weird couple. Screw the IRS.

[mowowie]

[JoeProBono]

[Crazieman]

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.

[JoeProBono]

[driftdiver]

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.

[South40]

Obammy should appoint him to a cabinet position.

[A CA Guy]

Don’t mess with the tax stuff, they will close you down.

[Brytani]

Maybe Dog can go get Obama’s birth certificate, collect the 1 million award and pay off the IRS.

[JoeProBono]

[JoeProBono]

[ErnBatavia]

Every time I see that booze sodden pig, I kinda wonder who takes longer to "decorate" himself each morning before his presentation unto the world; him or this clown:

It's gotta be some sort of insecurity or self esteem thang....

[K-oneTexas]

Maybe he could serve the warrants or apprehend the individuals indicted by the American Grand Jury! escort them to GITMO.

[JoeProBono]

[radiohead]

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.

[Tammy8]

Don’t mess with the tax stuff, they will close you down.

Which never made sense to me- when they shut your business- then how do they expect you to pay?

[CodeMasterPhilzar]

I don't get this. How do you get that far behind on your taxes, or that screwed up on them? Do these people not have professional accountants? Between my wife and I, we edge into a 6 figure income, yet we use an accountant.

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.