By Paul Chesser on 7.29.09 @ 10:45AM
AmSpec contributor David Bass, whose day job is to
report for the John Locke Foundation's Carolina Journal,
learned a couple of months ago that the North Carolina Department
of Revenue
was singling out large families for audits, demanding proof
such as Social Security card copies and birth certificates to
prove their dependents' existence. The department threatened to
withhold income tax refunds if the families failed to provide the
documentation.
AmSpec contributor David Bass, whose day job is to
report for the John Locke Foundation's Carolina Journal,
learned a couple of months ago that the North Carolina Department
of Revenue
was singling out large families for audits, demanding proof
such as Social Security card copies and birth certificates to
prove their dependents' existence. The department threatened to
withhold income tax refunds if the families failed to provide the
documentation.
In his story today, after waiting weeks to obtain public records
he requested, David reports that
the State of Kentucky has shown an interest in North
Carolina's auditing actions. Undoubtedly this will spread as a
great idea among state-level lawmakers at the National Conference of State
Legislatures and will become standard practice everywhere in
a few years.
topics:
Taxes
