The controversial Dakota Access pipeline will receive a permit from the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers to allow construction of the $3.7 billion project to be completed, according to North Dakota Senator Heidi Heitkamp.
After spending more than $22 million on the Dakota Access pipeline protest, North Dakota wants to make sure any paid activists remember to submit their state income taxes.
Tax Commissioner Ryan Rauschenberger said his office is keeping an eye out for tax forms from environmental groups that may have hired protesters to agitate against the 1,172-mile, four-state pipeline project.
[…] It’s no secret that millions have been funneled into the six-month-old demonstration via crowdfunding websites, and that more than 30 environmental organizations, including the Sierra Club, Indigenous Environmental Network, Food and Water Watch, 350.org and Greenpeace, have backed the protest.
If national environmental organizations are paying protest personnel, they’re not saying so publicly. Still, Mr. Rauschenberger said red flags will be raised if he doesn’t start seeing W2 or 1099 tax forms from those affiliated with the protest arriving at his office.
“It’s something we could possibly pursue if we don’t see 1099s coming in for the activity,” Mr. Rauschenberger said.
Send them a bill for this, too.
It’s about time that the irresponsible, paid for and useful idiots, be held
Accountable for what their actions.
Tax evasion is how they got Al Capone too.
Well said Norh Dakota. If we can’t stop these useless morons from doing the damage they do then states/provinces should at least be able to get some money out of them as taxes. This is something that every state/city/province should do to help make public aware of the damage that they and those who fund them are doing to our economies and to show that they are not just youthful idealists fighting for what they see as some worthy cause.
Maybe just send the bill directly to George Soros.
OMG ! Congrats South Dakota ! Make them PAY their fair share … and prevent them claiming any of these salaries as “business expenses” against their “charitable” eco-Foundations. In fact … isn’t it time for OUR IRS (gawd, I hope that Kosekinen guy is gone) to do a little auditing of these so-called Eco Foundations ?
Remember the old public service TV ads … showing a littered highway, then panning over to an Indian Chief with a tear running down his cheek ? Yeah … they need to reshoot that one with the Indian Chief abandoning his 1988 Buick in a South Dakota creek … spray-painted with “Fcuuk Trump” on the hood.
“Dump trucks and heavy machinery rolled into the protest camp near the site of the Dakota Access Pipeline on Monday, and crews began filling large dumpsters with garbage that has accumulated…”
The footprint of the “save the planet” people. The world is their garbage dump as they pursue their life’s calling.
The mess needs to be cleaned up before spring, since they were protesting on a flood plain.
If the TaxMan wants to go after these folks, they will find a lot of low-hanging fruit (no pun intended). Even if the folks who paid the protesters were 501(C)(3) organizations, they MUST be able to show how they spent their funds. Even if they paid cash to people, they need to have documentation of where the money went. There are lots of forms that should have been filed (by now, anyway), and those folks who were paid will need to document offsetting expenses, or owe income and self-employment taxes for the payments. The paid protesters (at least those paid more than $600) and those who paid the protesters are likely in for a very rude awakening.
If 501(c)(3) organizations could legally give their money away without documentation, it would be a perfect money-laundering front.
If 501(c)(3) organizations could legally give their money away without documentation, it would be a perfect money-laundering front.
It might be more interesting to find out the source of the money George Soros gives to his groups.. Do you think the Obama administration or Hillary will be on that list? Or Mexican drug cartels using Indians for leverage
Odd that they stopped “Fighting” when the money ended.. so many questions! Are Indians cowards or capitalists?
FYI that Indian chief was an Italian actor.