Posted on 10/14/2005 1:06:57 AM PDT by NapkinUser
LOVELAND, Ohio - A woman who hasn't paid a $1.16 income tax bill to this Cincinnati suburb faces up to 18 months in jail and $4,000 in fines.
City officials say Deborah Combs hasn't filed city income tax returns for five years.
Combs says she has been mostly unemployed since 2000 and didn't realize she had to file the returns until the city notified her in February about the violation.
By that time, Combs owed $200 in late fees - $50 for each year she didn't file a return.
"I don't know how they could charge me the fees if I didn't owe anything," Combs said.
Loveland officials say everyone is required to file an annual return, regardless of income level.
"This is a flagrant offender," said City Manager Frederick Enderle. "She's been given ample opportunity and ample warning to file those returns and she chose to ignore them."
Combs has filed returns for 2001-2004, but not 2000. She agreed with a tax liability for $1.16 for 2003, but she hasn't been able to pay the late fees, she said. She said she figured she could pay it off later.
But Combs was charged with four first-degree misdemeanors for failing to file the tax returns and has an Oct. 20 hearing in Loveland Mayor's Court.
Somebody richly deserves a slap upside the head for this situation. Maybe it will knock their tiny little brain back into the little slot where it's connected.
How do people who make these rules get in charge? Simple, we the people elect them or the person who hired them.
The issue is apparently that she didn't file a return regardless of what she owes (or doesn't owe).
I've never lived in a city that had income taxes.
I do believe I'd leave. Property and sales taxes are enough...
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Income taxes, whether federal, state or city are slave taxes. The unelected tax agents prey and feed on the populace.
The tax agents are unelected, but we elect the people who put them on the payroll and authorize their actions.
This is absurd. Even the federal government does not require people to file tax returns if their income is below a certain level. I think that income level is somewhere around $5,000. This city government is out of control. They're asking people to file income tax returns when even the Feds don't require one.
(Denny Crane: "Sometimes you can only look for answers from God and failing that... and Fox News".)
When you're driving down the interstate and see a car come down the entrance ramp, and stop before merging into traffic. Check the tag, probbably Ohio.
I grew up in Ohio, learned to drive in Ohio, and I've never seen that happen in Ohio. You must be mixing our liscense plates with Florida plates. Ours are red, white, and blue and have O-H-I-O written on them. Florida plates have an orange on them.
The govt. will decide when you have paid enough, not you.
Cincinnati is also the town where they put a grandma in jail for putting nickels into the expired parking meters.
Then I am absolutely sure you have gotten many a speeding ticket in Ohio. Attention everyone, if you are driving through Ohio, speed limits are umbiquitously enforced.
Your post in 11 is way off base. However, Columbus is getting pretty famous for people driving the wrong way on the Outerbelt. If these people actually stopped on the ramp, they would probably notice they were about to go the wrong way.
I'm guessing the $1.16 is tax on interest from her savings account, and she figured "I having been working, so I have no need to file"
So far I have yet to see a single traffic cop.
Does that mean that the illegal aliens have to file a report too? If so, why don't they go after them?
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