I’m turning my attention to some local government tax evaders, some of whom seem to have legitimate excuses, and one other that doesn’t. That one would be Stacey Campfield, who owes almost half of the now late property taxes to Knox County.
Almost $10,000 in Knox County elected officials’ local property taxes were delinquent this tax season, including about $4,500 from state Rep. Stacey Campfield.
As we read farther down the article, Camfield uses a lame excuse of “I paid online.”
He said Wednesday afternoon that he paid those online and couldn’t recall when he made that transaction.
“I paid online, and it takes a few days for those to come up” in an electronic record check, said Campfield, a Republican.
Now, I pay the majority of my bills online, and each different company, including the state of TN, gives you the opportunity of printing out the confirmation that your bill was paid, on such and such date at such and such time. I always print out my confirmation, and attach it to the actual bill and then file it into it’s particular folder.
Can’t recall when he made the payment? I call bullshit on that!
The city’s collections manager, Donna Dyer, said Campfield paid the taxes and late fees on all of his properties about 2 p.m. Wednesday. A reporter had contacted his office with questions about the taxes earlier in the day.
Glitches do happen on websites, even on on sites where you pay bills, including property taxes, like what has happened to Rep Armstrong. But, more importantly, he’s not using “not accessing” the website as an excuse.
“I couldn’t pay it online, and I went by the county office at Five Points and tried to pay them,” Armstrong said. “The guy in the office said he couldn’t pull it up on the system.”
But, what is so maddening about Campfield’s excuses is that not paying his property taxes on time is a recurring problem.
Sisk said this wasn’t Campfield’s first county property tax delinquency. “He’s just come in and paid late,” Sisk said, referring to previous years.
I imagine this recurring problem of not paying property taxes on time will be used as a continuing reliability problem, as well as his lack of working for his constituents problem, of his probable opponent in the coming months.
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I’m not an apologist for Campfield, but this does happen. It has happened to me twice, when paying my Federal income tax online. Apparently, they don’t post payment for 2 business days, and that poses a problem when there are holidays that come in that time frame. In 7 years of paying quarterly taxes, I have been late 3 times, all for this reason.
Yes, mistakes happen. But, also from my own personal experience, penalties are not then assessed, when you can prove that payment was made online (the confirmation number that is always given when you pay online, even from the smallest stores) if there is a glitch. Even when federal taxes are paid online, the date the payment was made online is also posted, if prior to the “late” date, you will not be assessed penalties.
Re-read the article and ask yourself this: If Campfield had paid online, why would he then go into the office on Wed (after being contacted by the paper) and THEN pay the back taxes and penalties, if he had already paid them? Why wouldn’t he have just given the property clerk the online confirmation number???
Campfield was busted right after he set up his “blog” for having back taxes due on all of his rental properties and his response was “if Knox Co. needed the money they could come and get it”. He is a slum lord who lived with an unregistered child molester and doesn’t pay his property taxes. Now if that is not a conservative Republican I don’t know what is.
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