Tampon grrrrl doesn't pay her taxes, either.

[Adam]

IRS files $70K tax lien against Harris-Perry, husband

The Internal Revenue Service has placed a tax lien on Melissa Harris-Perry and her husband, James Perry, for about $70,000 in delinquent taxes, according to a notice filed in Forsyth County Hall of Justice earlier this month.

Harris-Perry is a well-known host of an MSNBC talk show and a professor at Wake Forest University. The IRS filed the notice April 6.

In an email Wednesday, Harris-Perry said she was unaware of the tax lien but knew about the debt. She said she and her husband paid $21,721 of the debt when they filed their taxes Wednesday. The remaining debt, $48,581, covers a tax period ending Dec. 31, 2013, according to the notice.

Harris-Perry said she and her husband had been working to pay off the debt but had to deal with a series of personal crises that caused the couple to pay off the debt a lot slower than expected.

“We were aware that we would continue to need to work to pay off the 2013 debt,” she said in the email.

For all their talk about how people need to "pay their fair share," there sure are a whole lot of Leftists who don't like to pay their fair share. She has an estimated net worth over $40M, and an income of one and a quarter million dollars a year. She could easily pay off the IRS in a couple of weeks even if her bank account is $0 today. And yet she doesn't do this.

Imagine that.

[Adam]

Oh dear.

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[gary m]

Estimated net worth of 4 million.
Fuck her.

[Adam]

Estimated net worth of 4 million.
Fuck her.

You missed a zero. FORTY million net worth.


Poor, downtrodden Black person, being kept down by The Man.

[Norm dePlume]

There you go. The IRS is going after liberal commentators. Look out, Ed Schultz!

[Norm dePlume]

So you guys really hate rich people.

[gary m]

So you guys really hate rich people.

Nope, just her.

[scott]

Typical leftist.

Dolphy famously claimed that he advocated higher tax rates on high earners but he wasn't going to pay any more because he had a good accountant.

[scott]

So you guys really hate rich people.

Who said anything about rich people? I hate deadbeats. Why can't she afford a $70K tax bill with a net worth of $40 Million? You lefties on NU chided me about owing $225K after my audit with net worth of $2 Million. I paid it.

[Celeste Chalfonte]

I don't even understand how a person can make a $70,000 mistake in calculating taxes. Surely in that income bracket, she has a professional do her taxes.

[Norm dePlume]

Who said anything about rich people?

Gary and Adam.

Estimated net worth of 4 million.
Fuck her.

You missed a zero. FORTY million net worth.


Poor, downtrodden Black person, being kept down by The Man.

I hate deadbeats. Why can't she afford a $70K tax bill with a net worth of $40 Million? You lefties on NU chided me about owing $225K after my audit with net worth of $2 Million. I paid it.

Lefties on NU were accused of hating rich people. All the time. Same goes here.

Wow someone is jealous.

Common trait with Progressives I'm afraid. You will find the word "rich" as a descriptor in many of their negative viewpoints.

[Newman]

Lefties on NU were accused of hating rich people. All the time. Same goes here.

Democrats especially and lefties in general are predictably picky about the Rich they hate.

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You missed a zero. FORTY million net worth.


Poor, downtrodden Black person, being kept down by The Man.

She's Black?! I'll take your word for it.

Sounds good, though. Think I'll try it.

Not bad.

Hmm... I've been Black for about twenty seconds now and I ain't noways tahrd.

I dunno. I think after dinner I'll be Native American.

[Norm dePlume]

Democrats especially and lefties in general are predictably picky about the Rich they hate.

See?

[gary m]

So you guys really hate rich people.

Nope, just her.

To the Admin...
We really need a sarcasm emote...

[scott]

I don't even understand how a person can make a $70,000 mistake in calculating taxes. Surely in that income bracket, she has a professional do her taxes.

IRS rules are contradictory. In most situations a set of expenses are categorized as one type (say Cost of Goods Sold) instead of another (Capital Investments). That changes the amounts that can be deducted at any given time and the IRS uses case law to justify a decision.

We took loans from the company that our auditor counted as income until we were at the negotiation. He allowed half of the loans to be counted as loans and used a court case citation for his justification.

He disallowed expensing product we sold at the time we purchased it because we used a line of credit to purchase them and paid the obligation one month later (bought in December, paid the bank in January). He cited a court case for this decision.

But when he calculated when we took the loans, he used the date of the memo we recorded instead of the date we actually made the transfer (it was 3-6 months later and sometimes in another year). He used another case to cite the authority for that decision. The problem was that this case also had the court ruling AGAINST the IRS for counting payment for goods sold at the time of paying off the loan instead of the purchase date of the product.

There are all sorts of intricacies in the tax code and the IRS auditors manipulate them.