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...occurred to the White House that any law that, according to the IRS, 3 * out of 4 people disobey needs some reviewing. Out of the estimated 2 million families that employ some kind of domestic help, roughly one-quarter ever files the necessary taxes. The Administration will be "looking at everything" in connection with the rules, says Clinton spokesman George Stephanopoulos. At the same time, Dan Rostenkowski, who chairs the House Ways and Means Committee, is sponsoring a bill that would simplify filings and permit people to pay the required taxes through their own 1040 form. He also wants...
Rather than run such risks, many people are simply holding back and hoping they won't get caught. But while the IRS does not routinely ask citizens whether they employ household workers, scofflaws can be detected through tax audits called for other reasons. The chances of that happening are far greater than the risk of being nabbed by the understaffed immigration service. Even so, people who voluntarily come forward to confess could swiftly find themselves without a nanny. "If someone has an illegal worker," notes a spokesman for the immigration agency, "there isn't any way to make that person...
Catching cheaters is another problem for the IRS because the agency does not ask citizens whether they employ household workers. But tax dodgers are sometimes snared when domestics retire and apply for Social Security benefits, only to find that they cannot collect because their employers never paid the taxes. The dismayed workers then often turn in their miscreant bosses. The penalty for cheating can be twice the amount of the overdue taxes plus interest...
...blood-soaked Balkans. Diplomats disclosed a letter to Serbian officials in which Bush warned them not to try anything in Kosovo, a mostly Albanian province that the Serbs may subject to Bosnia-style "ethnic cleansing." If Serbia does cause a conflict there, said Bush, the U.S. is "prepared to employ military force ((presumably bombing)) against the Serbs in Kosovo and in Serbia proper." In all, it was a flurry of foreign policy activity that might be expected from a President preparing for another four years in office rather than one beginning his final three weeks. Bush is obviously moving...
...more problematic, Bush issued the first explicit threat to use military power in the Balkans. In a letter to Serbian President Slobodan Milosevic that was purposely leaked, Bush bluntly stated that "in the event of conflict in Kosovo caused by Serbian action, the United States will be prepared to employ military force" -- and not just "against the Serbians in Kosovo" but also "in Serbia proper." Kosovo is a province where, it is widely feared, Milosevic might start Bosnia-style "cleansing" of the ethnic Albanians, who constitute 90% of the population, an action that could well ignite a wider Balkan...