Posted on 03/31/2009 4:03:56 PM PDT by St. Louis Conservative
WASHINGTON (AP) — Health and Human Services nominee Kathleen Sebelius has corrected three years of tax returns and paid more than $7,000 in back taxes after finding "unintentional errors" — the latest tax troubles for an Obama administration nominee. The Kansas governor explained the changes to senators in a letter dated Tuesday that was obtained by The Associated Press. She said they involved charitable contributions, the sale of a home and business expenses.
She and her husband paid a total of $7,040 in back taxes and $878 in interest to amend returns from 2005-2007.
Several Obama administration nominees have been derailed by tax issues, notably the president's first nominee for HHS secretary, former Senate Democratic leader Tom Daschle. He withdrew from consideration while apologizing for failing to pay $140,000 in taxes and interest.
Finance Committee Chairman Max Baucus, D-Mont., quickly issued a statement supporting Sebelius' nomination.
"Congress is going to need a strong partner at the Department of Health and Human Services to achieve comprehensive health reform this year, and we have that partner in Gov. Sebelius," Baucus said. "There is absolutely no doubt in my mind that Gov. Sebelius has the political experience, determination, and bipartisan work ethic to get the job done with Congress this year. She's the right person for the job."
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Who made a half a billion dollars? Obama?
Say, wouldn’t those things be considered gifts and taxable in and of themselves????
Cheating AGAIN! ROFL
Excellent point! These people make me sick!
yea
Remember, Saudis, Iraianians, Communist, socialist etc financed his campaign
“Obama Rezko Ayers Wright Richardson Clinton Blagoyevich Geithner Sebelius.........”
We need an investigation of the IRS for Criminal Conspiracy to Defraud the Federal Government, or something like that. Obvious collusion with Democrat criminals.
Competent CPAs don't make those kind of mistakes.
ANYONE who makes 400K and doesn't have his taxes prepared by a CPA is a moron.
I believe they also financed his college education in America many moons ago too!
_Charitable contributions over $250 are supposed to include an acknowledgment letter from the charity in order for a deduction to be taken. Out of 49 charitable contributions made, three letters couldn't be found.
_Sebelius and her husband sold their home in 2006 and then took a mistaken deduction for mortgage interest.
_Insufficient documentation was found for some business expense deductions.
An administration official said Sebelius filed the amended returns before her nomination papers were sent to the Senate Finance Committee. Sebelius advised the committee of the mistakes, and senators requested an explanation, said the official, speaking on condition of anonymity because of the sensitivity of the issue.
In a letter to Sebelius, Baucus and Grassley wrote that they'd reviewed the three years of amended returns and “no additional items were identified that needed to be addressed.”
It doesn’t really matter what the reasons are. The idea of Obama tax cheats has already penetrated the public psyche. All that needs to be out there is news of another tax cheat, and it’s inflicting political damage. It probably won’t derail Sebelius, however it will be another wound.
[In a letter to Sebelius, Baucus and Grassley wrote that they’d reviewed the three years of amended returns and “no additional items were identified that needed to be addressed.”]
I believe 3 years is the statute of limitations for taxes. I’m sure that there are no errors in their previous 10 years of taxes.
Dirty, rotten scumbags - all of them.
Yeah but a lot of that was raised thru Axelrod's Hole-in-the-Fence:
We've already forgotten the Intentionally turned-off credit card checks that allowed people to use bogus names with legitimate cards to hide how much individuals were actually giving. ($2,300 per credit card, rather than $2,300 per individual, because they are virtually untraceable).
Criminals. The entire RAT party is a bunch of criminals.
The “charitable letter” normally is just a slip that is blank, and left to the individual to fill in. And “three bags of clothes” technically does not pass, but that is all that most people get from Goodwill, etc as receipts. If it was a cash contribution then they either need a letter, or ask the charity to resend the receipt.
Still, 52 donations over $250 is quite good for a democrat. Must have been to Planned Parenthood.
Claiming real estate taxes would be a harder mistake to make, unless they owned lots of homes that someone else managed for them. That would be a Schedule E deduction normally, not a Sched A deduction.
Insufficient documentation for business deductions is very common, especially for mileage claims. Look for a huge increase in audits of small businesses under the Big O.
Overall, small potatoes, but in any high profile job, like a GOVERNATOR, one doesn't claim anything that would give your political opponents ammo.
And I agree, the sheer number of fraudsters in O’s administration is breathtaking. They must think that they are above the little people they have sworn to represent.
These people are very unpatriotic.
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