Ms. Smith said the campaign received a letter from the IRS on Jan. 7, 2008, saying that authorities were missing W-2 forms from the campaign. She said the IRS letter noted the penalty was $819,000, the amount on the lien.
It appears that the lien is not for employment taxes, but rather for a penalty for failure to file W-2s. Generally, if the employer can supply the missing W-2s, the penalty will be abated. Of course, the employer may have to supply them several times before the IRS knows it got them. I believe the record is held by a Houston employer who took his W-2s into an IRS walk-in office four times, receiving a date stamped receipt each time. The penalty was finally abated by the Problem Resolution Office, the precurser of the Taxpayer Advocate Service.
"Here is a fundamental question to ask yourself- what is the goal of the income tax scam? I think it is a means to extract wealth from the masses and give it to a parasite class." Skankbeat
