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Title: Waxman: Blackwater may have engaged in tax evasion
Source: The Hill/AP
URL Source: http://thehill.com/leading-the-news ... in-tax-evasion-2007-10-22.html
Published: Oct 22, 2007
Author: Marre
Post Date: 2007-10-22 18:26:21 by Mekons4
Keywords: None
Views: 399
Comments: 7

Waxman: Blackwater may have engaged in tax evasion By Klaus Marre October 22, 2007

The chairman of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee asserted Monday that Iraq security contractor Blackwater USA “may have engaged in significant tax evasion.”

In a letter to Blackwater Chairman Erik Prince, panel Chairman Henry Waxman (D-Calif.) noted that the IRS earlier this year ruled that the company “violated federal tax laws by treating an armed guard as an ‘independent contractor,’ ” Waxman said. “The implication of this ruling is that Blackwater may have avoided paying millions of dollars in Social Security, Medicare, unemployment and related taxes for which it is legally responsible.”

The lawmaker noted that the issue came up when Prince testified before his panel earlier this month. At the time, Prince said that guards like the “flexibility” of the independent contractor status and that it is a “model that works.” The IRS ruling was not mentioned and Waxman said there is “evidence that Blackwater has tried to conceal the IRS ruling and the evasion of taxes from Congress and law enforcement officials.”

The lawmaker stated that his panel has found out that “Blackwater required this employee to sign a non-disclosure agreement before it agreed to pay the back pay and other compensation that he was owed. The terms of this agreement explicitly prohibited the guard from disclosing any information about Blackwater to ‘any politician’ or ‘public official.’ ”

Waxman charges that “it now appears that Blackwater used this illegal scheme to avoid millions of dollars in taxes and then prevented the security guard who discovered the tax evasion from contacting members of Congress or law enforcement officials.”

Waxman is calling on Prince to provide the committee with documents regarding the issue, including all communications between the government and Blackwater with regard to the classification of the company’s employees, non-disclosure agreements and documents related to the security guard who requested the IRS ruling.

The panel also set up a tipline to allow people with knowledge of Blackwater’s potential tax evasion to come forward.

Blackwater officials could not be reached for comment.

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#1. To: Mekons4 (#0)

business as usual, bump

If you're not cheating, you're not trying.

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Lod  posted on  2007-10-22   18:37:32 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#2. To: lodwick (#1)

Or you have a trace of one stinkin' scruple left.

Honi soit qui mal y pense

Mekons4  posted on  2007-10-22   18:44:00 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#3. To: Mekons4 (#0)

Wow, tax evasion. Since I condsider this entire war a giant criminal enterprise my reaction to this "scandal" would be like that of the reaction of a German who oppossed the Nazi regime at headlines in the German press about contractors who helped build concentration camps evading taxes- horrorfying disgust at the moral bankruptcy at what passes for "criticism" among the "oppossition" of this government.

The Daily Burkeman1

Burkeman1  posted on  2007-10-22   18:49:14 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#4. To: Burkeman1 (#3)

The lousier their day is, the better mine is. The clown only inherited parts of two billion-dollar fortunes, gets no-bid govt. contracts up the wazoo, and still cheats on his taxes?

Remember, that's how they got Al Capone.

Honi soit qui mal y pense

Mekons4  posted on  2007-10-22   19:10:39 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#5. To: Mekons4 (#4)

Americans understood right and from wrong in 1925. They understood getting Capone with tax evasion was the only way to get him since his hoods would kill or intimidate witnesses to any other crime. They didn't actually think his crime was tax evasion. Americans don't care about anything today. They are completely apathetic. And the few that do care are controlled with stories like this.

Going after some contractor for tax evasion on earnings from this evil criminal lying enterprise is an obscenity. And what makes you think even this will go anywhere? Geesh. How many "investigatins" have the Dems threatened or commenced that have done absolutley nothing? Blah blah blah- that is all they do. Get a headline- say something mean about the GOP or one of their parasite corporate buddies- and then do? Nothing. Not a damn thing. Worse than nothing actually.

They spew these stories to give the appearence of oppossition. That is all. This is like going after Nazis camp commanders for stealing petty cash from the machine gunning mass grave fund.

The Daily Burkeman1

Burkeman1  posted on  2007-10-22   19:20:08 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#6. To: Burkeman1 (#5)

This is like going after Nazis camp commanders for stealing petty cash from the machine gunning mass grave fund.

Himmler actually was pretty determined to make sure SS men guilty of such offenses were punished.

Although I'm sure there was so much corruption in the organization that a lot of it was undetected.

To reason, indeed, he was not in the habit of attending. His mode of arguing, if it is to be so called, was one not uncommon among dull and stubborn persons, who are accustomed to be surrounded by their inferiors. He asserted a proposition; and, as often as wiser people ventured respectfully to show that it was erroneous, he asserted it again, in exactly the same words, and conceived that, by doing so, he at once disposed of all objections. - Macaulay, "History of England," Vol. 1, Chapter 6, on James II.

aristeides  posted on  2007-10-22   19:26:05 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#7. To: Burkeman1, Mekons4 (#5)

Bump your commentary.

It's all too sick and corrupt for words.

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Lod  posted on  2007-10-22   19:49:36 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


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