Posted on 01/30/2009 3:57:40 PM PST by MindBender26
Bumps in the Road: Obama's HHS Secretary Nominee Faces Tax Questions Over Car and Driver
ABC News has learned that the nomination of former Senator Majority Leader Tom Daschle, D-S.D., to be President Obama's Secretary of Health and Human Services has hit a traffic snarl on its way through the Senate Finance Committee.
The controversy deals with a car and driver lent to Daschle by a wealthy Democratic friend, a chauffeur service the former senator used for years without declaring it on his taxes.
After being defeated in his 2004 re-election campaign to the Senate, Daschle in 2005 became a consultant and chairman of the Executive Advisory Board at InterMedia Advisors.
Based in New York City, InterMedia Advisors is a private equity firm founded in part by longtime Daschle friend and Democratic fundraiser Leo Hindery,
That same year he began his professional relationship with InterMedia 2005, Daschle began using the services of Hindery's car and driver.
The Cadillac and driver were never part of Daschle's official compensation package at InterMedia but Mr. Daschle -- who as Senate majority leader enjoyed the use of a car and driver at taxpayer expense -- didn't declare their services on his income taxes, as tax laws require.
During the vetting process to become HHS secretary, Daschle corrected the tax violation, voluntarily paying $101,943 in back taxes plus interest, working with his accountant to amend his tax returns for 2005 through 2007.
Daschle reimbursed the IRS $31,462 in taxes and interest for tax year 2005; $35,546 for 2006; and $34,935, for 2007.
The chairman of the Senate Finance Committee, Sen. Max Baucus, D-Mont., has called his colleagues for a private meeting at 5 p.m. ET Monday to discuss these complications surrounding Daschle's nomination.
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Easily the most corrupt administration since clinton.
Pray for America, our Troops and obama’s Guidance
Few years ago, more than 50% of Gator starting line had felony CONVICTIONS!
I’m a ‘Cane. We just got drunk and la*d..... at least onece a month! :)
But, but, but he’s the smartest man in the country and the only one who can run the complicated task of nationalizing our heathcare system!
“Remember behind every great fortune, there is a crime.”???? There is? Maybe that’s why I have to keep paying taxes. Do they offer courses in how to do this?
-PJ
Didn’t Daschle also get a sweetheart deal on a vacation home in North Carolina? Seems that came up just prior to him being voted out of office in South Dakota. Like Christopher Dodd, I would bet that he cannot produce his mortgage papers.
Didn’t the Democrats put Daschle Tax Relief provisions into the Porkulus Bill?
No problem. Move along.
You might ring up one of the Kennedy clan or even the the new Secretary of State and her hubby. They could give you a lesson.
Hey, he’s a Democrat. Why do you think he got the nomination?
Tax cheating is a resume enhancement in the OBamBam administration.
If the new secretary of the RINO party wants have internet fun...well start posting photos and addresses of these stinking excesses....kinda like Smoking Gun.
I thought bambi was against tax cuts for the rich?
As a US Senator Tommy Daschle also took DC Homestead exemptions to reduce the property taxes on his mansion even though he was not a DC resident.
Bad case of “hiccups”, eh Harry Reid?
and recurring, too
“Obama= another fraud democrat.”
That’s a real reach to blame O for tom Daschle’s sense of entitlement. Entitlement, by the way, is in the democrats’ DNA.
Hey, you know a blonde named Dawn?
ABC News has learned that the nomination of former Senator Majority Leader Tom Daschle, D-S.D., to be President Obama's Secretary of Health and Human Services has hit a traffic snarl on its way through the Senate Finance Committee.
The controversy deals with a car and driver lent to Daschle by a wealthy Democratic friend, a chauffeur service the former senator used for years without declaring it on his taxes...
TDIDS
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