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Rangel Failed to Report $75,000 in Income
New York tTmes ^
| September 5, 2008
| DAVID KOCIENIEWSKI
Posted on 09/05/2008 7:12:08 AM PDT by syriacus
Representative Charles B. Rangel has earned more than $75,000 in rental income from a villa he has owned in the Dominican Republic since 1988, but never reported it on his federal or state tax returns, according to a lawyer for the congressman and documents from the resort.
(Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com ...
TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Politics/Elections; US: New York
KEYWORDS: 110th; charlesrangel; congress; corruptdems; corruption; lannydavis; nyc; perks; rangel
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posted on
09/05/2008 7:12:08 AM PDT
by
syriacus
To: syriacus
Paying taxes is for the little people.
To: syriacus
It is time for Rangle to brake rocks or dig those ditches in chains.
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posted on
09/05/2008 7:13:28 AM PDT
by
bmwcyle
(Vote McWhatshisname and PALIN)
To: syriacus
Yet he wants to raise taxes on everyone else.
How do you spell hypocrite?
To: syriacus
It doesn't matter with the dems. Usually nothing ever happens. Although I was surprised that the Detroit mayor received jail time.
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posted on
09/05/2008 7:14:17 AM PDT
by
duckman
(I refuse to use a tag line...I mean it.)
To: syriacus
Hmmm. fines and interest or a full blown trial where he will get off by an OJ jury.
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posted on
09/05/2008 7:15:07 AM PDT
by
scooby321
To: Eric in the Ozarks
Charlie and Leona Helmsley have something in common.
To: syriacus
More from the Times
Mr. Rangel, chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee, which writes the federal tax code, bought the beachfront villa at the Punta Cana Yacht Club and has received twice-yearly payments from the resort, which rents the property for $500 or more per night.
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posted on
09/05/2008 7:15:31 AM PDT
by
syriacus
(FIRST check out the Alaska state webpages. THEN tell me that governing Alaska is easy.)
To: syriacus
Maybe I’m missing something, but I thought that money earned outside of the U.S. is not taxable.
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posted on
09/05/2008 7:15:38 AM PDT
by
Westbrook
(Having more children does not divide your love, it multiplies it.)
To: Eric in the Ozarks
Lol! I bet he gets away with it or joins with Al Sharpton(also has Tax Problems) in a chorus of, “You racist Honkies” if the IRS investigates.
To: scooby321
Hmmm. fines and interest or a full blown trial where he will get off by an OJ jury. "That's right,Your Honor...my trial should be in DC or in the South Bronx".
To: syriacus
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posted on
09/05/2008 7:17:13 AM PDT
by
showme_the_Glory
(ILLEGAL: prohibited by law. ALIEN: Owing political allegiance to another country or government)
To: syriacus
Obviously, Rangel saw the Harry Reid interview where Harry said Federal Income taxes are voluntary. Chuck simply decided to volunteer not to pay them.
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posted on
09/05/2008 7:17:25 AM PDT
by
econjack
(Some people are as dumb as soup.)
To: syriacus
Enjoy your steel condo, Rangel.
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posted on
09/05/2008 7:18:37 AM PDT
by
beethovenfan
(If Islam is the solution, the "problem" must be freedom.)
To: Westbrook
No - money earned overesas IS taxable.
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posted on
09/05/2008 7:18:47 AM PDT
by
WayneM
(Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the the universe.)
To: syriacus
According to Rangel’s lawyer, Lanny Davis, we should blame Rangel’s wife.
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posted on
09/05/2008 7:18:57 AM PDT
by
syriacus
(FIRST check out the Alaska state webpages. THEN tell me that governing Alaska is easy.)
To: duckman
Yep I had the same thought. Rangel is a good Democrat, so this offense is not in the same league as an evil Republican failing to report income and paying his taxes.
To: Westbrook
Maybe Im missing something, but I thought that money earned outside of the U.S. is not taxable. Wrong...wrong...wrong! If you're a US citizen every bit of income you have,regardless of its form or place of origin,is reportable to the Infernal Revenue Service.And US citizens,unlike citizens of just about every other western industrialized countries,must pay tax to the IRS on their worldwide income even when they're domiciled outside of the US.
To: syriacus
He will use the “Gee, I forgot” defense. Not bad for a committee chairman whose expertise is financial.
Instead of using him as an example (as he should be)the IRS will let him off by paying the back taxes and a fine.
Nothing will be done at the ethics level in the House.
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posted on
09/05/2008 7:20:53 AM PDT
by
wildbill
To: syriacus
Charlie is in the It's our turn now family of graft.
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