McCain Pays Overdue Tax Bills

By Eric on June 30, 2008

John McCain is such a maverick, he doesn’t always pay taxes:

When you’re poor, it can be hard to pay the bills. When you’re rich, it’s hard to keep track of all the bills that need paying. It’s a lesson Cindy McCain learned the hard way when NEWSWEEK raised questions about an overdue property-tax bill on a La Jolla, Calif., property owned by a trust that she oversees. Mrs. McCain is a beer heiress with an estimated $100 million fortune and, along with her husband, she owns at least seven properties, including condos in California and Arizona.

San Diego County officials, it turns out, have been sending out tax notices on the La Jolla property, an oceanfront condo, for four years without receiving a response… Shortly after NEWSWEEK inquired about the matter, the McCain aide e-mailed a receipt dated Friday, June 27, confirming payment by the trust to San Diego County in the amount of $6,744.42. County officials say the trust still owes an additional $1,742 for this year, an amount that is overdue and will go into default July 1.

Kagro X:

And what a Reg’lar Guy thing to do, too. Isn’t it? To forget to pay taxes for four years on your beach condo? Your seventh? Eighth? Ninth property? I keep forgetting.

Why, just the other day I was on my way home from the Applebee’s salad bar, which I had forgotten didn’t exist, and I said to myself, “Oh, I may have forgotten to pay my taxes. For several years in a row. Like, maybe since 2004. Even though my job is to scream at passersby about taxes every day.”

But these things happen to us Reg’lar Guys, don’t they? I mean, who among us hasn’t been tax delinquent for years on end on our beach properties, when you get right down to it? Ha ha!

Tags: 2008, John McCain, taxes

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