Word: taxman
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Fred Goldberg rejected the cash-now plan, calling it "no-good tax policy." But his request to spend an additional $76 million to catch rich tax cheats was pared down to a puny $6 million. Could it be that the President remembers the pain of coughing up to the taxman? He was furious when an IRS audit in 1984 forced him to pay nearly $200,000 in taxes, interest and penalties on the sale of an $843,000 house in Houston. In 1988 George Bush ridiculed Michael Dukakis' plan to catch more tax avoiders and railed against "putting...
Reaching the intersection of Mass. and WesternAves., the group held signs in front of the TaxMan storefront, trying to inform passing commutersof their cause...
...evasion in connection with his role as a middleman in the illegal sales of arms to Iran. In 1985 and 1986, the government alleges, he made $882,000 in commissions; he stuffed some into a Swiss bank account and neglected to report the complete amount to the taxman. Walsh's first witness was Clines' business partner, retired Air Force Major General Richard Secord, who pleaded guilty last November to lying to Congress...
...TAXMAN, SPARE THAT TREE. The winners of the first Goldman Environmental Prizes, a new award for champions of Mother Earth, were supposed to get $60,000 apiece. Not so fast, says the IRS, which is demanding that the foundation withhold some $22,000 in federal and local taxes from the five foreign winners. Lois Gibbs, the U.S. honoree, will not be docked since she is obliged to declare her winnings as income (prizes to Americans, including the Nobels, used to be exempt, but no longer are). The notion of taxing people like Kenyan Michael Werikhe, who is fighting to save...