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IRS employee
1RS u n d e r fir e from S e n a te
axpayers told a Senate Jacobs o f California said on the sec
committee last Wednes ond day o f the Senate Finance Com
day how they filed for di mittee hearings on IRS practices.
The owner o f a small construction
vorce and bankruptcy, paid thou
company
said he let the IRS keep
sands o f dollars they did not really
$50,000
o
f
a seized government pay
owe and floundered for years in a
ment
check
to settle a case because it
bureacratic maze to correct wrongs
would
have
cost far more to fight the
by the Internal Revenue Service.
IRS
and
would
have jeopardized his
One woman tearfully told how her
business.
husband filed for divorce and she
The case stemmed from the IRS
filed for bankruptcy in an attempt to
holding
Tom Savage, 69, o f Delaware
prevent the IRS from seizing their
responsible for a subcontractor’s tax
property.
Another woman said she and her problems.
Savage said he was pursued de
husband paid $ 11,000 they did not
spite
a newly revealed Justice Depart
owe to the IRS to put an end to the
ment
letter to an IRS attorney dated
a g e n c y ’s en fo rcem en t actions,
November
1993 which said “we be
which could have c losed her optom
lieve
that
the
levy in question was
etrist husband’s practice.
wrongful.”
The issue was over an identifica
A retired Roman Catholic priest said
tion number the IRS had given them,
he
fought the IRS for months over
a duplicate o f someone else’s.
money
it said it was owed after he
“Only after you have experienced
failed
to
fill out the correct form related
w h at my h u sb an d an d I en dured
to
a
charitable
trust set up by his late
would you consider paying an IRS
mother.
bill th a t you d o n ’t ow e,” Nancy
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“For eight months I lived in con
stant worry, if not fear, that the trust
that my dear mother had established
to help the poor would be penalized
because o f what I can only call the
unprofessional, calloused, and indif
ferent behavior o f IRS emplyees who
are devious enough never to sign
their names to any notices that they
send out,” Lawrence Ballweg said.
For Katherine Lund Hicks o f Cali
fornia, it began when she got divorced
and found she was saddled with the
tax bill for the last joint return for tax
year 1983. In an out o f court settlement
the IRS agreed to reduce tax owed to
about $3,500.
Hicks said she tried to pay the IRS,
wanting a clean slate when she rem ar
ried. The agency did not take the
money because o f its recordkeeping
discrepancies and told her she owed
no tax.
It then filed a tax lien against Hicks.
She said an IRS officer told her she
did not owe anything for 1983 taxes,
...said black and Mexican American students can't compete ujith white
students.
T
can-A m erican ‘c u ltu re s’ do not
place a high value on academ ic
achievement.”
M arc L evin, p re sid e n t o f the
stu d e n t g ro u p , sa id T u e sd a y
th a t G ra g lia ’s co m m en ts w ere
blow n out o f p ro p o rtio n . H e said
h is g ro u p su p p o rts d iv e rs ity ,
but not a ffirm a tiv e actio n .
UT Law Dean Mike Sharlot said
an investigation concluded that
there were no grounds for disciplin
ary action against Graglia, and no
evidence that he discrim inates
against students based on race or
ethnicity.
S h a rlo t said G ra g lia has been
exp ressin g such view s for years.
to encourage achievement. Failure is
not looked upon with disgrace.”
State legislators have demanded
his
ouster, but Jackson said that would
profes
only make Graglia a martyr.
“ W hat we must do is isolate him as
a social p a ria h ,” Jackson said.
He added that Graglia and univer
sity officials still must answer for what
he said.
“ H e has legal grounds for free
speech, b u t no m oral gro u n d and no
scientific gro u n d for racist, fascist,
in accu rate speech,” Ja c k so n said.
Graglia in a statement Tuesday
stood by his opposition to affirmative
action programs, but that his com
ments were misinterpreted, although
he “ regrets th a t the result has been
an emotional confrontation.”
“ I realize now, especially after be
ing called by some cordial Mexican-
A m erican and black p aren ts, th a t it
was carelessly put, and I regret it,” he
said.
“I do not know and did not mean to
say, as I apologetically explained to
several callers, th a t black and Mexi
“He’s a voice in the wil
derness,” S h a rlo t said.
The 5th U.S. C ircuit
Court of Appeals issued the
ruling against race-based
admissions in a case involv
ing the UT law school. The
U.S. Supreme Court allowed
the decision to stand.
A p p le Computer
focuses on uihcit
it does best
pple C om puter vow ed
last friday to rem ain a
le a d in g p la y e r in the
computer market by focus
ing on sectors where it has a strong hold
and on its tie-up with rival M icrosoft
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“Clearly in those kinds of
situations the IRS would ab
solutely apologize, situations
in which we simply did not
serve the taxpayer properly,
he added.
(IRS).
“Does the IRS cover up abuses?
The answer is yes... The IRS pro
tects itself, whether right or wrong,
said the employee, who offered an
inside view in exchange for ano
nymity.
In e m o tio n a l te stim o n y on
Wednesday, aggrieved taxpayers
told how the IRS had ruined their
lives with what they said were un
justified and outrageous demands.
Commitee chairman Sen. William
Roth, a Delaware Republican, said
at the start of the hearing: “There is
a need for a cultural change in the
Internal Revenue Service.”
W Medical teams Inter
national (NWMTI) intro
duced Bas Vanderzalm
as its new president. Vanderzalm will
serve as only the second president
in the history of NW Medical Teams
International.
Bom in Holland, Vanderzalm emi
grated to Canada in the early 5 0 's.
He then moved to Utah in the late
1950’s where he was raised in a
community of Christian Reformed
first generation immigrants.
In 1983, Vanderzalm graduated
with high honors from Boston Uni
versity with an MBA in H ealthcare
Management. He has also received
amasterofdivinity in Pastoral coun
seling from Andover Newton Theo
logical School in Massachusetts.
He initiated hiscollegecareer in 1969
at Calvin College in Michigan re
ceiving his Bachelor of Arts in En
glish and History.
The 49 year old Vandezalm and
his wife, Lynn (an editor forTyndale
House Publishing), have a 22 year
old son. Matt, who resides in St.
Louis, MO and an 18 year old daugh
ter. Alisa, who attends George Fox
University in Newberg, OR. The
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He also repeated A pple’s stance that
the new partnership with M icrosoft was
in the interest o f its customers.
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a lot to gain as Apple and M icrosoft work
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Under the deal, M icrosoft will invest
$150 million in non-voting stock o f the
troubled PC maker, and also develop more
programs for Macintosh, including fu
ture versions o f its Office software,
Internet Explorer browser and other soft
ware.
Schiller also said the firm ’s new board
members, appointed in a recent reshuffle,
have the experience and passion to re
turn Apple to the forefront o f the com
puter industry.
The new appointees include Larry
Ellison, who leads Oracle Corp and Gareth
Chang, senior vice president o f Hughes
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Frank Keith, spokesman for the
IRS, said: “ I think the testim ony
this m o rning spoke for itself.
C le a rly w e ’ve had e v id en ce o f
ta x p a y e rs w ho te stifie d about
situ atio n s in w hich they w ere not
p ro p e rly served, and situ a tio n s
w here IRS failures disrupted their
liv e s.”
its abuses.
The employee was speaking on
the third day o f a committee hearing
on alleged arrogance, callousness
and incompetence at the hated and
feared Internal Revenue Service
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tion and content creation, said Philip
Schiller, vice-president for worldwide
product marketing at Apple.
“ W e need a laser-sharp focus,” said
Schiller, adding Apple already is the top
computer education company in the world
with over $2 billion in annual sales in the
“Our lives are now forever
altered. Joint tenancy, joint
bank accounts, joint tax re
turns are no longer a part of
our life,” she said. “My credit
is completely destroyed and
my husband’s credit is seri
ously damaged. We will suf
fer the effects of this IRS
collection for the rest of our
lives.”
An anonymous IRS employee,
hidden behind a screen and speak
ing through a voice distorter, told
the U.S. Senate finance committee
last Thursday that the tax collection
service sometimes tried to conceal
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he Rev. Jesse Jackson told
University o f Texas stu
dents two weeks ago to
skip classes taught by a law
sor who said black and Mexican
American students can’t compete
with white students.
“W e’re not the problem, he is the
problem,” Jackson told the nearly
5,000 students assembled below the
steps o f the cam pus’ main Tower.
“You have no obligation to be in his
class.”
Lino Graglia, a 67-year-old pro
fessor o f constitutional law, made
his remarks last week during the an
nouncement o f a student organiza
tion - Students for Equal O pportu
nity - that supports a recent federal
court ruling preventing race-based
admissions policies in Texas. He is
the group’s faculty adviser.
“ B lacks an d M exican-A m eri-
cans a re not academ ically com peti
tive w ith w hites in selective institu
tions,” Graglia said then. “ It is the
result p rim arily of c u ltu ra l effects.
They have a cu ltu re th a t seem s not
but the only way to get rid o f the tax
lien was to pay the assessment, which
had since risen to $8,000.
“You don’t eat, you don’t sleep,
you’re afraid to talk too much to each
other for fear you’ 11 take it out on your
spouse,” Hicks said in tears. “If you
do talk, it’s about the IRS. We were
newlyweds. 1 cannot describe the guilt,
knowing that I had brought my new
husband into this.”
W hen her new husband’s salary
was levied by the IRS, he set up a
separate residence and filed for di
vorce because in California that ac
tion means the salary is separate prop
erty.
Hicks said she filed for bankruptcy
to buy time to figure out what to do so
the IRS w ould not go after her
husband’s retirement fund, which was
considered community property.
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