Taxpayers upset about officials who haven’t paid

Taxpayers upset about officials who haven’t paid

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Facing today’s tax deadline, some Americans wonder why they should pay when the man who oversees the IRS didn’t. By Tom Hamburger and Ralph Vartabedian LOS ANGELES TIMES WASHINGTON—The treasury secretary, who oversees the IRS, didn’t pay all his taxes. Neither did five other top nominees for the Obama administration. Now, as today’s tax deadline looms, some Americans are asking: Why should we comply with the arcane requirements of the IRS when top administration officials failed to do the same? The harsh reaction to such disclosures resonates not just among the anti-tax people organizing protests around the country this week but also in low-income neighborhoods of cities like Los Angeles— and is even discussed in the hushed hallways of the Internal Revenue Service.

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