{"id":12275,"date":"2009-04-14T14:00:35","date_gmt":"2009-04-14T14:00:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/reuters_more_americans_wary_of_tax_man_this_year\/"},"modified":"2009-04-14T14:00:35","modified_gmt":"2009-04-14T14:00:35","slug":"reuters_more_americans_wary_of_tax_man_this_year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=12275","title":{"rendered":"Reuters: More Americans wary of tax man this year"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> 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.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Our calls are up 280 percent,&#8221; said Richard Boggs, founder and chief executive of Los Angeles-based Nationwide Tax Relief, a firm that helps delinquent taxpayers resolve tax issues.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We&#8217;ve seen a huge rise in what we call the rookie delinquent taxpayer,&#8221; he said. &#8220;They are incredibly scared, and they have no idea what&#8217;s going to happen to them because, God bless them, they&#8217;ve never owed before.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/topNews\/idUSTRE53D01M20090414?feedType=RSS&#038;feedName=topNews&#038;rpc=22&#038;sp=true\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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. &#8220;Our calls are up 280 percent,&#8221; said Richard Boggs, founder and chief<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=12275\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40,149,587,596],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12275","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics-politics","category-economy","category-taxes","category-the-credit-freeze-crisis-of-fall-2008the-recession-of-2007"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12275","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12275"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12275\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12275"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12275"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12275"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}