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Kerry says tax lien is clerical error
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Posted by Foon Rhee, deputy national political editor
June 3, 2009 01:28 PM
Senator John F. Kerry's 2004 presidential campaign has been slapped with a $819,848 federal tax lien, but his office says it is a paperwork error and the campaign owes no tax penalties.
The Massachusetts Democrat said the Internal Revenue Service mishandled payroll tax forms that he said were correctly filed by his campaign in 2005. "This is a clerical matter, nothing more, nothing less," Kerry spokeswoman Whitney Smith told the Associated Press.
The Washington Times reported the lien today. To read it, click here.
The IRS notified the Kerry campaign in January 2008 that it had failed to file certain payroll tax forms for the 2004 tax year. Smith told the AP that the IRS must have lost the payroll forms since the campaign had filed them in 2005, but the campaign filed them again last year.
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NICE TRY JOHNNY BOY THEY MIGHT NOT LET YOU GET AWAY WITH PAYING BUT THELL LET YOU SAY OPS WE SENT THE PAPERWORK THE CHECK IS IN THE MAIL YA OK JOHN NEVER LIKED YOU NEVER WILL
I'm no Kerry fan, but I suspect his campaign is PROBABLY right about this.
Until this matter is cleared up, the IRS annocuned that they will hold the Senator"s hair in escrow.
Geez, Should'nt they have waited for Obama to appoint him to a cabinet position before releasing this story?
.....sure, it MUST have been a paperwork error.......
but it's OK,.....his wife has the money to cover the tax penalties...
Hard to believe!! A Democrat with a tax problem!
Hillary lost 1000 pages on a coffee table , so it's easy to see how th IRS could lose Kerrys tax forms
Just another honest mistake by a Democrat. Treasury Secretary knows how to handle this type problem.
Clerical error....riiiiight
This is amazing! First you have Pelosi accusing the CIA of lying to Congress, and now you have Kerry claimiing the IRS made a simple $800,000 mistake. Here's the irony. Although they are both likely wrong, if we believe they are both right, isn't this further evidence that the government is ill equipped to run the banks, the auto industry, healthcare, etc?
Lose a Presidential election as a Democrat and you never have have to pay and think it was only 8 years ago. What happened, did Theresa shut him off?
Oh, you bet. That happens all the time. The IRS's dog eats their homework too. Try again John. Of course, we all know nothing will come of this.
Your Honor! This fine gentleman is a politician from Massachusetts! How could anyone even during a playful, humorous moment think him capable of a criminal act? I rest my case!
References available and if necessary from. Diane, Chuck, Sal, Tom, Charlie and Bill Bulger.
OF course this $820k is an oversight or a paperwork snafu.
Don't you know who HE is??!
What, they didn't file electronically like everyone else? Of course it's someone else's fault. John Kerry isn't responsible for anything.
Bum.... trying to skip out on paying his taxes.... typical
Tereeeeeza.... do you have your checkbook handy?
If this would have come out earlier, John would be in the Obama cabinet.
What a suprise! This guy will not leave a TIP after a meal.I.R.S. get in line,this ahole make's my stomach turn.
Typical Kerry, only little people pay taxes. Funny if I waited a year to pay an 800k tax bill they would most likely arrest me.
Has a Democrat running for president ever paid all his/her bills?
LOSER!!
the dog ate my homework.
nice try johnny!
It must be a botched joke by the IRS.
It must be the reason Obama didn't appoint him to Secretary of Defense (or whatever else he was angling for) they knew months ago that he owed taxes. Dang.....now we are stuck with him for at least 4 more years.