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DEL.ICIO.USBill to give police powers to state’s income tax squad abandoned
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
House Republicans late Tuesday quietly killed a measure that would have allowed the state revenue commissioner to create a force of eight law enforcement officers to go after those who evade state income and property taxes.
We hear that the GOP leadership thought that the small squad bore too much of a resemblance to the U.S. Internal Revenue Service.
H.B.385 was an agency bill backed by Gov. Sonny Perdue.
Commissioner Bart Graham had argued his current investigators needed the authority to request search warrants and make arrests, saying that Georgia had not prosecuted anyone for tax fraud in the last 20 years.
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By nutz
March 27, 2007 10:23 PM | Link to this
If I’d known that I could have saved a lot of money over the last 20 years.