Politico Quizzes Senator’s On Their Tax Prep

By Kleinheider Posted on February 11, 2009 at 7:29 am

Our leaders’ answers:

SEN. LAMAR ALEXANDER (R-Tenn.)

Do you prepare your own taxes? Declined to answer.
If not, who does? Declined to answer.
Have you or the IRS ever discovered an error on a tax return you’ve filed? Declined to answer.
Have you ever paid back taxes? Declined to answer.
If the answer to either 3 or 4 is yes, please explain. Declined to answer.

NOTE: Alexander’s office referred Politico “to the financial disclosure information which is publicly available,” adding that the senator “has made a full financial disclosure every year in elective office.”

SEN. BOB CORKER (R-Tenn.) Do you prepare your own taxes? Declined to answer. If not, who does? Declined to answer. Have you or the IRS ever discovered an error on a tax return you’ve filed? Declined to answer. Have you ever paid back taxes? Declined to answer. If the answer to either 3 or 4 is yes, please explain.
Declined to answer.

NOTE: Corker’s office referred Politico to public documents, noting that the senator “has publicly released tax return information going back many years, and since coming to the Senate, he has provided a tremendous amount of information through his personal financial disclosure.”

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