Pay your taxes or lose your license

[Rhiannon12866]

State warns scofflaws who owe $10G could lose driving privileges

Albany

Some 16,000 delinquent taxpayers were put on notice Monday: Pay up or lose your driver's license.

The Department of Taxation and Finance sent the warnings to implement new provisions of law enacted with the state budget. Gov. Andrew Cuomo, a Democrat, authored the proposal.

"Our message is simple: Tax scofflaws who don't abide by the same rules as everyone else are not entitled to the same privileges as everyone else," Cuomo said in a press release.

"These worst offenders are putting an unfair burden on the overwhelming majority of New Yorkers who are hardworking, law-abiding taxpayers," he continued. "By enacting these additional consequences, we're providing additional incentives for the state to receive the money it is owed, and we're keeping scofflaws off the very roads they refuse to pay their fair share to maintain."

http://www.timesunion.com/local/article/Pay-your-taxes-or-lose-your-license-4708596.php

[SkyIsGrey]

1. The ones that are "the worst offenders"

are the ones that have a chauffeur.

[Rhiannon12866]

2. I was thinking of corporations...

[Travis_0004]

3. Sounds good to me.

You have to mess up pretty bad to owe the state 10,000 in back taxes, so with the entry so high, this will affect the rich much more than the poor, and get those effected to pay up.

I just hope that they will allow people behind to work out a reasonable payment plan, and as long as they are making progress keep their license.

[hrmjustin]

4. Good idea.

[Cooley Hurd]

5. Kick.

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