huffingtonpost.com - 1/13/2009
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News broke late Tuesday afternoon that Treasury Secretary nominee Timothy Geithner had for several years employed a housekeeper without proper immigration papers and, separately, had failed to pay taxes for self-employment. The story was reminiscent of mini-scandals that had derailed past ...
online.wsj.com - 1/13/2009
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[President-elect Barack Obama's pick for Treasury secretary, Timothy
Geithner, left, employed an immigrant housekeeper with expired work...
papers.] Getty Images President-elect Barack Obama's pick for Treasury secretary, Timothy Geithner, left, employed ...
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Geithner's Tax History Muddles Confirmation
online.wsj.com - 1/14/2009
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The Senate Finance Committee is postponing confirmation hearings
for Treasury secretary nominee Geithner until Jan. 21, prompted...
by Republican objections.
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Geithner's Hearing Is Postponed
powerlineblog.com - 1/14/2009
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powerlineblog.com —
The Obama transition team's latest stumble is the
revelation that Treasury Secretary nominee Tim Geithner failed to...
pay self-employment taxes from 2001 through 2004, when he was employed by the International Monetary Fund. This is, as the Obama ...
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Geithner's Tax Problem
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Geithner's Tax Error A Common One, Expert Says
AMERICAblog News| A great nation deserves the truth —
From Huff Post: "When one is self-employed you do owe self-employment taxes which are essentially the employee and employer portion of your taxes," said George Yin, a tax professor at the University of Virginia Law School and formerly Chief of Staff of the U.S. Congress's Joint Committee on Taxation. "If that is what they are referring to than yes, there are some people who serve as consultants and don't necessarily understand their obligations to pay self employed taxes. My guess is that it is not an infrequent error."As for the housekeeper issue, does ...
Obama's Treasury secretary owed $26k in taxes, but it's O.K.
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... described it as "a speed bump." Sam Stein over at HuffingtonPost calls it an "embarrassing public relations headache" but really a mistake "quite common in nature." ...
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... described it as “a speed bump.” Sam Stein over at HuffingtonPost calls it an “embarrassing public relations headache” but really a mistake “quite common in nature.” ...
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Now I can accept that a paperwork snafu led to immigration issues for a domestic employee. And I can accept that even the brightest guy can make a tax mistake those IRS rules are confusing, and the one he broke more than most. But when you get pinged for a violation on one return that you know you made in other years but choose not to correct since you didnt get caught, doesnt that raise a serious ...
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iht.com 1/21/2009 — WASHINGTON : If Timothy Geithner were a bank, he might well be considered "too big to fail." In better economic times, Geithner's confirmation to be President-elect Barack Obama's Treasury secretary might be in danger after the disclosure this week ...
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CNN Political Ticker 1/13/2009
Geithner is Obama's Treasury Secretary nominee.
(CNN) — President-elect Barack Obama's transition office defended Treasury Secretary-designee Tim Geithner Monday amid reports he failed to pay the correct amount of taxes for a period of ...
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