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The Ed Morrissey Show: Jim Geraghty
Hot Air » Top Picks —
... joins us to discuss the dawning of the Age of Obama. It’s off to an auspicious start, as Treasury Secretary nominee Tim Geithner blamed TurboTax for his failure to pay his FISA taxes over several years. Plus, is Obama really President, or did the fumble of the oath make Joe Biden the top dog in DC? All this and more! Now you can join the conversation in the chat room! Be sure to register at Ustream to participate in our raucous live-chat sessions. (And if the log-in prompt doesn’t come up in the chat box below, use ...
QUESTIONS ABOUT Geithner and TurboTax….
Instapundit —
QUESTIONS ABOUT Geithner and TurboTax.
Garbage In
Chicago Boyz —
... It isn’t fun to pay taxes. It isn’t always easy. But they did good work and they were honest. I don’t figure anyone is too brilliant for character to matter - not when it comes to determining policy that apparently others will be expected to follow and setting up debts that others will be expected to pay. (Geraghty - thanks to Instapundit - has been doing blog research: responses from accountants, users of Turbotax, etc. Of course, no matter what the system or who the accoutant, garbage in leads to garbage out.) ...
Oops! Geithner Falls into Turbo Tax Trap
The Discerning Texan —
The conventional wisdom seems to be that Tim Geithner is going to be confirmed as Treasury Secretary, no problemo. Maybe so, but--as with Dan Rather in the "Memogate" episode--Geithner appears to have has stepped into one very large pile of technological manure (via Jim Geraghty): ...
2005 TurboTax would not have prompted Geithner on Self-Employment Taxes.
The Volokh Conspiracy —
... Screenshot from 2005 TurboTax Again, while TurboTax did not make a “mistake,” TurboTax would not have prompted Geithner specifically about the overnight summer camp. This time, however, the link “Learn more about this topic” would have supplied the correct answer. But if he didn’t click on this link, TurboTax would not have informed Geithner that overnight camp didn’t qualify for the child care credit. CONCLUSION: Contrary to the comments of some on the web (via ...
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TurboTax Doesn't Prompt Users to Pay Self-Employment Taxes? Or Just Geithner's Copy of the Software?
In today's confirmation hearing, Treasury Secretary nominee Tim Geithner said he ...
Liberal Senate Panel Approves Tax Cheat to Head IRS
Gateway Pundit —
... What the AP fails to mention is that the Turbotax software Geithner used prompts you to pay your to pay self-employment taxes. ...
Questions for Tim Geithner
Betsy's Page —
... person with the same lifetime income who spends all his money on himself? â N. GREGORY MANKIW, a professor of economics at Harvard All good questions. Of course, we won't get answers from Geithner on these questions any more than we did for questions asking why he neglected to pay his self employment taxes even though he was using Turbo Tax which would have prompted him to pay those taxes and would have told him that he couldn't deduct summer camp costs as child care expenses. Jim Geraghty has a collection of comments from users of Turbo Tax and it certainly sounds as if he ...
