Congress may find travel more taxing: IRS asked if taxes paid when families join trips

[NVMojo]

WASHINGTON - After globe-trotting for free with their spouses on trips sponsored by private corporations and interest groups, some members of Nevada's congressional delegation may be getting a visit from the taxman.

A congressional watchdog group has asked the IRS to investigate whether Congress, which racked up nearly $50 million in free travel over five years, has been paying taxes when family members join the trips.

If not, that's a cue for the tax collector, according to Public Citizen, the Washington-based watchdog group.

Since 1998, 2,900 trips valued at $4.8 million involved family members of senators, congressmen or their staffs, the group says.

Craig Holman, the group's legislative representative, hopes the taxman's potential sting will influence lawmakers who pledged to make ethics reform part of the "first-100-hour-agenda" of the new Congress.

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http://www.lasvegassun.com/sunbin/stories/sun/2006/nov/27/566635978.html

[Lasthorseman]

1. Nah

I really think we should press for which law created the IRS in the first place. Bet you don't get and answer.

[NVMojo]

2. but in the meantime, make the Congress members and Senators pay

their fair share. I'm sick of this cavalier behavior.

[unblock]

3. uh, the internal revenue code, as permitted by the 16th amendment?

just a guess.

good luck fighting it in tax court.

:tinfoilhat:

[aquart]

4. Grover Norquist believes in starving the government, too.

He's a Republican.

You lost?