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To: bentway who wrote (447353)	1/13/2009 7:48:26 PM
From: longnshort	Respond to of 1576346

a tax mistake??? he knew the law and only paid up after he was nominated. I know people who work at the IMF and they know the law

To: bentway who wrote (447353)	1/13/2009 7:52:56 PM
From: longnshort	Respond to of 1576346

Like Rangel's tax mistake

To: bentway who wrote (447353)	1/13/2009 7:54:21 PM
From: i-node	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1576346

I know you WANT one, but an easily explained tax mistake that has already been corrected does not a scandal make. Apparently, it was more the IMF's fault than his, his employer at the time. You idiot. I've done thousands of tax returns and represented hundreds of clients in tax audits. This kind of mistake is easily explained by someone who is a UAW assembly line worker. But it isn't easily explained by a man who has been nominated to run Treasury, which includes IRS. It was NOT the IMF's fault; they paid the guy as an independent contractor, for which he received a 1099-MISC like thousands of other Americans do every year. There is no way he could have missed it. More importantly, the fact that he FINALLY paid the outstanding assessment only days before his nomination PROVES, BEYOND ANY DOUBT, that he KNEW he was in the wrong. NO COURT IN THE LAND WOULD CONSIDER THIS LAST-MINUTE PAYMENT AS MAKING UP FOR HIS MISTAKE OR FRAUD.