Add Ronald Kirk, former Dallas mayor and President Obama's U.S. Trade Representative nominee, to the long and growing list of administration nominees and officials with tax problems (Gregory Craig, Tom Daschle, Tim Geithner, Nancy Killefer, and Hilda Solis). The Senate Finance Committee today released a three-page report detailing various mistakes on Mr. Kirk's 2005-2007 tax returns. Mr. Kirk has agreed to pay almost $10,000 in additional taxes for, among other things, wrongly deducting $17,000 for season tickets to the NBA Dallas Mavericks and wrongly taking charitable deductions for contributions of honoraria from speaking fees from Austin College even though he had not included the honoraria in his income.
These aren't even innocent mistakes or differences of interpretation of the law; this is flat out evasion. Anyone of lesser status wouldn't get away with it.
(Er, I guess Kirk didn't get away with it, either, did he?)
Via Tax Prof Blog.
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