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BAD TAX NUMBERS

March 30, 2006

For most taxpayers this time of year, the concerns are dollars, cents, and where to file the return. For a few, though, the meaningful tax numbers are years, months, and where they will be until they can return.

Lobbyist Jack Abramoff will go away for 70 months after pleading guilty to a tax evasion charge arising out of a scheme to defraud Indian casinos. (Correction: The 70-month sentence is a state sentence. The tax sentence will be meted out after he finishes cooperating with prosectors in other cases.)

You don't have to be as disreputable as a lobbyist to get into tax trouble. Strip club owner Richard Goldring pleaded guilty to a tax charge yesterday in New York. Mr. Goldring's establishment, the "Scores" club, made the news when an executive of St. Louis-based Savvis spent over $200,000 there on his company credit card. Early indications were that the club owners were going to try to blame their accountant, but they've apparently thought better of it.

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