"The amount of taxes owed is a private matter," Sharon Leighow, Palin's spokeswoman, said in an e-mail. "If the governor collects future per diem, those documents would be a matter of public record."
The payments became a touchy issue for Palin last fall when she was running for vice president and campaigned as a budget watchdog.
The Washington Post published a story in mid-September that said she had charged the state almost $17,000 for meals and incidentals while staying in her own home.
The state considers Juneau, where she lives in the Governor's Mansion, to be Palin's official duty station.
Palin billed the state for 312 nights spent in her Wasilla home during her first 19 months in office, according to the Washington Post. She received $60 a day tax free, money intended to cover meals and incidentals, while traveling on state business, her travel forms show.
The RNC shouldn't have blown all that dough on hair, make-up and clothing for the Palin clan; they should have bought 'em an abacus.
Good luck finding any criticism of Palin's tax concerns from those same ardent, law-and-order right-wingers who attacked Timothy Geithner, Tom Daschle, and Nancy Killefer as the biggest tax cheats since the invention of the write-off.
They'll probably just blame the Anchorage Daily News.
Even Sarah Palin reads that one, right?
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Sorry, this isn't the same as Obama's boys. They KNEW they weren't paying their taxes. Palin wasn't sure and asked for a review and a clarification of the tax law:
"Alaska administration commissioner Annette Kreitzner told the Anchorage Daily News on Tuesday that the governor’s office had asked the office to review the tax treatment of the per diem payments after questions about the funds were raised."
Get that, the governor's office...that's her...ASKED for a review. That is the responsible thing to do.
The per diem payments were just now considered taxable (in the past they werent) by the administration commisioner's review...Palin's offices asked for the review to see if the paymets should be taxable.
It is one thing to have questions and be informed that you owe, it's another thing to know, to be told you owe taxes and to ignore those notices for years as the democrats have.
Like I said, good luck finding any criticism,,,
I wonder who Annette Kreitzner works for?
Sorry, but I don't share your view that Sarah Palin has an altruistic view of her back taxes. I also find it comical that this budget "hawk" and self-described "maverick" bills the state so that she can work from home.
No wonder Alaskans working in Juneau had buttons made that said, "Where's Sarah?"
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