As a deep recession strips Americans of their jobs, homes and investments, the 2009 U.S. tax season promises to see a large uptick in first-time delinquent income taxpayers.
“Our calls are up 280 percent,” said Richard Boggs, founder and chief executive of Los Angeles-based Nationwide Tax Relief, a firm that helps delinquent taxpayers resolve tax issues.
“We’ve seen a huge rise in what we call the rookie delinquent taxpayer,” he said. “They are incredibly scared, and they have no idea what’s going to happen to them because, God bless them, they’ve never owed before.”
Of course the fact that so many high-level Obama appointees have been ‘outed’ as not rookie but seasoned delinquent taxpayers can’t have anything to do with it, now, can it? I mean, the average American isn’t influenced by those they vote into political office, right? It’s still “do as I say and not as I do” business as usual, in spite of Change we can believe in, yes?