Tax Cheats

    Alright, I guess I'll do the obvious--a short rumination on taxes. I've always believed in taxes, though I certainly would rather my contribution to the federal treasury go to building schools or funding alternative energy than paying Halliburton to fleece us or some new, nutty version of Star Wars (isn't it amazing how scientifically-discredited weapons keep on chugging along?). But, the point here today is to take a quick look a the tax cheats.

    Bob McIntyre of the fabulous Citizen of Tax Justice has just put a report "Tax Cheats & Their Enablers." He notes first that, "Taxes, as Supreme Court Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes noted a century ago, are 'the price of civilization.' Right, so stop whining about paying taxes unless you are prepared to live without a whole bunch of things you take for granted every day. Bob's report has a useful description of how many individual people hide income and its cost of billions of dollars to society every year.

    But, the bigger scam is the corporate tax-dodge. Now, this comes as no surprise--i'd venture to guess that most citizens who pay even a little attention assume corporations pay very little in taxes. Here are a few nuggets:

• This past February, CTJ found that of 252 of America’s largest and most profitable corporations, from 2001 to 2003, " these companies avoided paying state income taxes on almost two-thirds of their U.S. profits—at a cost to state governments of $42 billion. Overall, corporate state tax avoidance has led to a 40 percent drop in state corporate income tax collections as a share of the economy from 1989 to 2003." Wonder why states are having a hard time funding basic social services?
• "One of our biggest banks, Wachovia, used a leasing tax shelter in which it pretended to own a German town’s sewer system. That strange scheme allowed Wachovia to eliminate all of its U.S. federal income taxes in 2002." Hmmm...I know Wachovia has some fuzzy ad campaign touting how wonderful they are.
• "Due to enacted corporate tax breaks, rate reductions and tax sheltering, U.S. corporate tax collections at the federal level alone have fallen from 4.8 percent of the gross domestic product in the 1950s to only 1.6 percent in 2004—a drop of two-thirds. To put that in perspective, if corporations paid the same effective tax rate now that they paid in the fifties, corporate tax payments to the U.S. Treasury would be $380 billion a year higher than they actually are."

    Make you mad enough? It should.

Comments

[woman scorned]

I want to know how to report a tax cheat. A woman named DONNA M MATTERA 42 GRISSOM AVE STATEN ISLAND NY
718-530-4716 IS RUNNING A CATERING BUSINESS AND IS PRODUCING ABOUT 1000.00 WEEKLY AND NOT REPORTING IT. HER BUSINESS IS RUN OUT OF SALADWORKS CAFE LOCATED LARCHMONT & ROUTE 38 IN MT LAUREL NJ 08054, ILLEGALLY MAY I ADD. SHE IS NOT THE OWNER OF THE BUSINESS NOTHING IS RUNG IN THROUGH THE BUSINESS OF SALADWORKS DBA GC FOODS INC. SHE CARRIES NO INSURANCE EITHER.
SHE MAY ALSO BE PAID FOR WORKING THERE "UNDERTHETABLE" AS WELL BUT THATS SMALL BEANS COMPARED TO WHAT THEY ARE MAKING IN CASH & NOT REPORTING.
HOW DO I PROVE & REPORT THIS?

[anynanomous]

I agree and this woman is also sleeping with the owner although she is married. (HER FOOD IS HORRIBLE) VERY VERY GREASY like her. She wont go away even when she is told she is not wanted and has no value to the store. She works for free too.

[anonymous hairdresser]

Don't work for any franchise owned by Jeffrey S. Contrady or Donna Mattera period! She previously owned a Great Clips in Blackwood, NJ and was operated by Jeffrey Contrady as a business manager...it closed its doors and its employees were owed money..some had bounced checks...etc..we were promised that a new franchisee was to come in and take over and pay us our salaries owed.. and there was no such thing.. these people are getting away w/ so much of unpaid debts and getting away with it. I am owed 600 dollars and am screwed... don't work for these people they are crooked!!!!!!!!!!!!

[owes money]

Donna Mattera and Jeffrey S. Contrady owe many of the workers at our salon money...we were promised that the next franchise would pay us, but there is no other franchise coming in and we were lied to... don't work for them.

[not stupid]

Maybe you were fat and ugly and didnt know how to cut hair. No customers came back because you scared them all away. it easy for someone to post this crap on the web pages, but seriously look in the mirror. also tell the truth and post your name so we can contact you to get the truth. Plus you all stole the money, amazing how there was never any cash, only credit card tranactions. Maybe the Irs should call you and look into you income.

[BeenHad]

The MANAGEMENT Stole the money ! how do you think a place like that can support 3 large salarys (D, L & J ) and its known your "Management" would grab the cash from both locations!!! i may b fat but i can diet- YOUR A PLAIN UGLY GREEDY THIEF. it is ILLEGAL NOT TO PAY YOUR EMPLOYEES. What comes around goes around.

[Jeffrey thief]

It is a year later, and I still haven't been pain money owed to me by Jeffrey Contrady and Donna Mattera. I never took a dime from Great Clips and neither did the girls i worked with. Jeffrey was the thief. If I was so unattractive and couldn't cut hair, then why did I get hired in the first place..? He is a crook... beware!

[Donna A Fake]

Donna Mattera is from staten Island ny , Jeff Contrady is from Burlington NJ. They owe us, empolyees money. Jeff has filed for personal bankruptcy 7pn 8/2010, and it is being investigated because he didnt claim he has intrest in this great clips and some other hooters franchise so maybe we will be able to get something back if they dont let him.He also works under jc management group, who managed the two willingboro & clementon nj franchises. Donna Mattera has nothing and am guessing she will follow. They both are BIG SCAMMERS and LIERS.

[CHECK NEW LINK]

THIEF SCAM FRAUD DONNA MATTERA AFFILIATED WITH JEFF JEFFREY S CONTRADY DBA JC MANAGEMENT GROUP IN NJ / NY

[Still Scaming]

DONNA MATTERA STATEN ISLAND NY &
JEFF CONTRADY MT. LAUREL NJ STILL SCAMMING
AND FRAUDING / MISLEADING PEOPLE AND THEIR
FUNDS. THESE TWO WILL NEVER CHANGE.
THEY ARE WHO THEY ARE