Stephen Moore was already a horrible choice for a seat on the Federal Reserve Board based on his incompetence, alone, but now we learn there’s a federal tax lien against him for more than $75,000. Naturally, he got some sympathetic air time on Fox News to tell us all he’s really a victim. Because on Fox News, it’s always OK if you’re a Republican.
As The New York Times explained, a federal tax lien for $75,328.80 from the 2014 tax year was entered against Moore in 2018. Moore is taking no personal responsibility for it:
In a phone interview on Thursday, Mr. Moore said the lien was the result of a “huge miscalculation” on the part of the Internal Revenue Service, and that he had been frustrated by the agency in a yearslong effort to resolve the issue.
Mr. Moore said that for a single tax year, he had claimed both the value of alimony to his former wife, which is deductible on federal tax forms, and also the value of his child support payments to her, which are not eligible for a tax break. He said the child support amounted to about $18,000, which, given his tax bracket, worked out to about $6,000 in taxes that he owed but did not pay.
“My accountant made a mistake,” he said.
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