As Sharpton Rose, So Did His Unpaid Tax Bills

[DesMoinesDem]

Mr. Sharpton has regularly sidestepped the sorts of obligations most people see as inevitable, like taxes, rent and other bills. Records reviewed by The New York Times show more than $4.5 million in current state and federal tax liens against him and his for-profit businesses.
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With the tax liability outstanding, Mr. Sharpton traveled first class and collected a sizable salary, the kind of practice by nonprofit groups that the United States Treasury’s inspector general for tax administration recently characterized as “abusive,” or “potentially criminal” if the failure to turn over or collect taxes is willful.

Mr. Sharpton and the National Action Network have repeatedly failed to pay travel agencies, hotels and landlords. He has leaned on the generosity of friends and sometimes even the organization, intermingling its finances with his own to cover his daughters’ private school tuition.

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/11/19/nyregion/questions-about-al-sharptons-finances-accompany-his-rise-in-influence.html?_r=1

[NaturalHigh]

1. For us more ordinary types, this might be considered criminal.

Money (or even access to friends with money) really does change things.

[bigwillq]

2. Pay your taxes, Al.

No excuse not to.

[Ykcutnek]

3. Another day, another hit piece against Sharpton.

Means he's doing something right.

Keep up the good work, Rev.

[CatWoman]

4. word

[Throd]

7. So it isn't true?

[snooper2]

15. Um, the left has grifters too FYI

[Ykcutnek]

16. I agree. And there's a mighty list of people on the left I put in that category.

Sharpton is not one of them.

[JaneyVee]

5. RW loves bringing this up.

Garnish his salary and move on.

[CatWoman]

6. and your point is what??

[Dr. Strange]

11. He should pay his taxes?

[DesMoinesDem]

14. your POINT is WHAT?

[MADem]

8. Ya wanna talk about tax cheats, do you? Lets get off the small potatoes, then, shall we?

Corporations Owe Hundreds of Billions of Taxes But GOP Goes After Federal Employees

Uncollected Taxes

You may have heard that multinational corporations are holding somewhere in the range of $2 trillion outside of the country, to avoid paying the taxes they owe when they bring the money back to the U.S. This is because of a loophole called "deferral." Profits made outside the US are not taxed if the company doesn't repatriate the money.

Because of this loophole companies move jobs, factories and profit centers outside the country, and companies that do not are left at a disadvantage. The taxes due on this money are somewhere upwards of $700 billion. The amount held outside the country grows every year -- along with the number of jobs, factories and profit centers companies move to take advantage of this.

And there's more. A September report from the National Priorities Project (NPP) shows that the country is handing more than $1 trillion to the already-wealthy.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/dave-johnson/corporations-owe-hundreds_b_4350489.html

[Nye Bevan]

9. A one-percenter with millions in unpaid tax bills? OUTRAGE!

Oh wait, it's Al Sharpton? Well that's completely different. This is obviously a right-wing hit-piece smear operation. Cancel outrage.

[Historic NY]

10. Al is a blowhard and in not loved in NY...

period.

[ArsSkeptica]

12. My response here turned into a post elsewhere...

...so it's only fair to share.

http://scholarsandrogues.com/2014/11/18/rev-al-sharpton-his-fans-and-boolean-operators/

[WhiteAndNerdy]

13. I hate to hear this about him.

People with a high public profile should know better than to pull shit like that, because eventually someone is going to notice and expose them. And he should also know that right-wingers will file the accusations away under "Scummy Democrats doing scummy things." Even if he doesn't care about his own personal reputation, he should care about doing things that will make Democrats as a group look bad.

[badtoworse]

17. A real class act