From the office of U.S. Sen. Barbara Mikulski:
Announcement follows Senator’s meeting with Maryland small business owners facing IRS fees and penalties due to alleged payroll service provider fraud
U.S. Senator Barbara A. Mikulski (D-Md.) today was joined by Maryland small business owners to announce that she is introducing the Small Business Tax Fraud Prevention Act, legislation to protect small business owners victimized by payroll service provider (PSP) tax theft and fraud. Senator Mikulski was joined by small business owners affected by alleged PSP fraud including Dave Benfield of DuClaw Brewing Co. along with Sheryl Davis-Kohl of the Harford County Chamber of Commerce.
“Maryland’s small businesses are the backbone of our economy. My great-grandparents owned a local bakery and my father ran a grocery store. I learned how these businesses help weave social fabric by hiring local workers and investing in their communities. When small businesses are harmed, they need a government on their side,” Senator Mikulski said. “Today I am taking action to protect our small businesses victimized by payroll service provider tax theft and fraud. Through common-sense reforms, we will protect small businesses victims from scheming tax theft and cut through the red-tape to ensure they are not victimized again by the IRS.”
Several Maryland small businesses that have used services of a PSP believe their provider failed to pay, or made only partial payments, of federal and state withholding and unemployment taxes. These small businesses have been hurt by late fees and penalties resulting from misdirected and delayed state and federal taxes.
The Small Business Tax Fraud Prevention Act would protect small businesses who have been victimized by PSP fraud by increasing oversight of the industry while providing needed protections to small businesses. Specifically the legislation would:
· Increase oversight of PSPs by requiring them to register with the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) and be IRS bonded or certified;
· Provide protections to small businesses by requiring the IRS to send dual notification to a business when its address has been changed by a third party payer;
· Penalize a PSP who fails to remit taxes for a client;
· and provide assistance to defrauded businesses who need relief from tax liability by requiring the IRS to give greater consideration to ETA Offers of Compromise.
Earlier this month, Senator Mikulski wrote to IRS Acting Commissioner Steven Miller to express her frustration with reports that the IRS has been aware of payroll service provider irregularities and has not taken significant steps to protect small businesses. Her letter is available here. She repeated her demand that Acting Commissioner Miller take immediate action to prevent third-party payer fraud in the future, and called on him to expedite any Request for Abatement of Interest for Maryland businesses that may have been affected in the midst of tax season.
Mikulski pissing businesses tax dollars by continually voting for wastefull spending projects is the biggest fraud of all.
I’m going to throw up. This really takes the cake. Mikulski parades as the great rescuer of small businesses, bragging that her grandfather owned a business etc. – and SHE was one of the primary leaders who inflicted the insidious, ruinous, Obamacare that is already proving to DESTROY SMALL BUSINESSES, along with the REST OF THE COUNTRY. How utterly DISGUSTING this woman is. And the clincher is, she and the rest of her evil cohorts hell-bent on ruining the country, is trying to EXEMPT herself from her own VILE, ABUSIVE legislation. What does THAT tell you ??? She and all of them need to get the hell out of office before they do any more HARM !!!!
The idiot libs in this state keep voting her back in.
Seriously. If you don’t like what is going on with the economy, or the fact that there are no jobs, QUIT VOTING THESE ASSHATS INTO OFFICE! It is not possible to legislate jobs, and business will not hire anyone if they are not needed. When business costs go up, profits go down. When profits go down jobs are lost. Get gov’t out of the way. Until that happens there will be NO recovery of any kind.
But no, the same idiots in this country will blindly go along and vote for those who tell the best lies and never look past the nose on their face to actually learn about how things work and why.
Senator Mikulski doesn’t care a fig about what is written on The Dagger or anywhere else. Her constituents continue to vote her in to office and that is all that means anything to her.
Folks, we live in Maryland so we may as well learn to live with it or move or vote them all out.
All of these laws existed before…they just go unenforced like so many. Fraud, theft by deception, blah, blah, blah. The bigger question, as stated above, who are the brain-dead that continue to vote for Mikulski, Cardin, and the rest? You are hosing every single American by allowing that driftwood to occupy space (allegedly representing our interests) in the US Senate!
If we are all unhappy, vote them out next time.
Folks, we live in Maryland so we may as well learn to live with it or move or vote them all out.
Its always a bigger problem than one representative.
Oh yeah, ‘learn to live with it’……..like LAMBS TO SLAUGHTER, is that it ?