Division of Revenue Director Patrick Carter announced today that the State of Delaware will begin suspending the professional licenses of taxpayers who fail to pay their outstanding tax liabilities. This announcement comes as the division updates its online lists of the state’s top 100 delinquent individual and business taxpayers at www.revenue.delaware.gov/ddt.shtml.
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This might not be as great as it appears to be on the surface. Admittedly, everyone should pay the taxes that they owe; especially, professionals. But this move to crack down on business professionals in this weak economy will put some of them out of business and their staffs will be put out of work too. More self-inflicted unemployment at the very same time we are loosing up on welfare benefits, unemployment benefits and disability eligibility. So keep in mind that this policy will result in fewer working people carrying more non-working people. The cost (taxes) per person working will go up.
ReplyDeleteAnd since it cost over $250,000 per new job created under the Obama and Pelosi stimulus, does it now make sense to wipe out jobs for say $10,000 in overdue taxes. Or would it have made more sense to have taken the stimulus money, paid the professionals delinquent taxes and let them keep their jobs. It certainly would have been cheaper.
But that wouldn't have been "redistributing the wealth", the Obama mission. That would have simply been letting the people keep the money they earned in the first place. And that my friend is an evil concept that all governments seem determined to abolish.
Politicians and government employees are some of the biggest tax cheats and scofflaws. They are the ones who should lose their jobs but that will never happen.
ReplyDeleteWhat is up with the "Top 100" delinquent scofflaws? Everyone that I've ever known with tax problems was HAMMERED by the IRS and the State Comptroller. They really can squeeze blood from a stone. SO, how DO these people get on this list (and often STAY there). If a citizen owes $350, its all out war by the IRS. If a citizen owes $350,000, he gets on a "list" and thats supposed to shame him into paying?? What happened to frozen bank accounts, property seizures, wage attachments, and prison? Just for the serfs?
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