A 2006 Internal Revenue Service audit forced Geithner to pay back taxes and interest for only two years, 2003 and 2004, but not on taxes owed for 2001 and 2002.
The IRS charged no penalties, no fines, and didn’t demand the money owed for 2001 and 2002. And he didn’t voluntarily pay it until his name came up as nominee.
In Obama’s word you can be a tax cheat and still oversee the Treasury. (You can’t own a gun though.)
BTW, is Turbo Tax sueing Geithner for blaming the problem on their product? hmmm...
Intuit has made a public statement saying that there is no way their software could be responsible for Geithner’s “error”.
They were politic about it, saying that their software does accurate calculations based on what the user enters.