The Guyana Government in the Kaieteur News saga should reflect on the words of the late Donald C. Alexander: “Political views extremist or otherwise, are irrelevant to taxation”. Alexander refused to launch tax audits of those on Richard Nixons infamous enemies list, Alexander ran the IRS from 1973 to 1977, when the agency came under severe public scrutiny for its earlier role in investigating political opponents and radicals on the far right and left. Alexander, a prominent tax lawyer when he took the IRS job, learned the day after his swearing-in of a secret band of IRS investigators who combed through the tax returns of 3,000 notorious groups and 8,000 individuals. Within three months, he ordered the unit disbanded, saying that political views extremist or otherwise, are irrelevant to taxation, he wrote in a 1999 editorial for the publication Tax Notes. The evening of the same day, President Nixon made his first effort to fire me. kaieteurnewsonline/2014/09/22/sattaur-addresses-issue-of-plot-to-destroy-kaieteur-news-newspaper-provides-the-evidence/
Posted on: Mon, 22 Sep 2014 21:01:53 +0000
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