Even as he fends off accusations about his own failure to pay taxes and fully disclose his financial dealings, Rep. Charles Rangel had quietly slipped into the health-care bill broad new provisions cracking down on taxpayers in proceedings with the IRS, The Post has learned.
The changes approved by the House Ways and Means Committee that Rangel chairs would strip away legal defenses and pile higher penalties on corporate and individual taxpayers facing IRS proceedings for what they claim are unintentional mistakes, experts said.
Rangel’s bill would:
* Punish those who fail to alert the IRS to potentially questionable tax exemptions.
* Bar the IRS from waiving penalties against taxpayers who clearly erred in good faith.
* Double fines in certain circumstances.
“The bill raises penalties and eliminates many of the reasonable defenses that taxpayers have always been able to use when honest mistakes are uncovered,” one lawyer told The Post.
In fact, the bill increases fines “in some cases even for honest mistakes,” the expert added.
HYPOCRITE CHARLIE: PUNISH TAX SLIP-UPS – New York Post.
In case you haven’t been following the Charlie saga:
Rep. Charles Rangel failed to report as much as $1.3 million in outside income — including up to $1 million for a Harlem building sale — on financial-disclosure forms he filed between 2002 and 2006, according to newly amended records.
The documents also show the embattled chairman of the Ways and Means Committee — who is being probed by the House Ethics Committee — failed to reveal a staggering $3 million in various business transactions over the same period.
This week, Rangel filed drastically revised financial-disclosure forms reflecting new, higher amounts of outside income and numerous additional business deals that had not been reported when the reports were originally filed.
In 2004, for instance, Rangel reported earning between $4,000 and $10,000 in outside earnings on top of his $158,100 congressional salary.
But the amended filings show that after the sale of a property on West 132nd Street, his outside income that year was somewhere between $118,000 and $1.04 million.
This is a prime example of the thoroughly unconstitutional, un-American sort of crap these Leftists, Socialists/Communist Boll Weevils (domestic enemies) put into the so-called do-gooder bills like Healthcare. Oh, don’t you think people should get affordable health care? Who could be against that? So a bunch of f’ing idiots vote these vermin into office and they sit there like spicders going about their work of destroying America.
Especially sad for someone like Rangel, who I believe is a Marine combat veteran of Korea. Is this what you fought for, Charlie, to stop Communism only so you could do their work here? Very, very sad and disturbing and evil that must be fought.
Robert: some of our country’s worst betrayers and traitors came from the military. Whatever happened to guys like the Reverend Wright or Charlie Rangel must have really soured them to the point that they hate our country and wish her harm. Of course both of these guys made a substantial living off the “hate America” constituents they serve. What is very sad to even a casual observer is that their rhetoric keeps those exact people hating, keep them feeling like victims, and keep them under the boot of government so they’ll never be able to achieve their potential. In my opinion they are examples of the worst that America has to offer and I wish they would retire and just go away so that those citizens that buy into that bullsh.t can re-evaluate their purpose and potential. Until then, we’re stuck with a bunch of anti-American, anti-white, anti-capitalist losers that think they can point to the color of their faces and claim victim status. They won’t look at their situation and question why their situation has not improved under Democrat rule for almost a hundred years. They’ll just blame someone else and feel hatred for the country that bread men of such courage and valor that they died in a war to free slaves and black citizens when it would have been more advantageous not to. They will ignore it and preach hatred in their churches that target citizens of this country that look at them as individuals with potential. It won’t matter to them right now. They have a Messiah that will screw everybody else and make their lives a utopia.Obama will pay their gas bills and mortgage payments… haven’t you heard? I can’t even relate to a group of people with absolutely no pride and I won’t try to do so. I’m a man with pride. I’m sick and tired of placating the Rangels of the world so as not to offend someone else. Sadly most of these same people don’t realize that the rest of America is starting to laugh at their racist charges, giggles every time they pull out the race card, and has reached a point where it will be dismissed as laughable because the rest of America has problems, doesn’t get everything we want, works our asses off to achieve, doesn’t expect something for nothing, and overcomes obstacles every day. Guys like Rangel don’t want their constituents to understand that.
Well said Dave B. This is a post worth reading twice or even more.=d>
Dave B, you absolutely nailed it. I agree 100% with everything you wrote.
Chuckie Rangel a nasty rotten scoundrel and fiend