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Three current employee of the Idaho State Tax Commission - a manager and two auditors - have gone on the record in affidavits in Rep. Shirley Ringo’s lawsuit over secret tax deals, the Times-News reports today, making a total of eight current or former Tax Commission employees, each with decades of experience, charging under oath that influential people got big tax breaks at everyone else’s expense. Click here to read the full report from reporter Ben Botkin, and see the full documents in the case.
Ringo, D-Moscow, has offered to dismiss the state Legislature as a defendant in the lawsuit if the state convenes an investigation and offers job protection to Tax Commission employees to testify.
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mseden on September 08 at 11:18 a.m.
I’m shocked to hear allegations of corruption in Idaho state government! I cannot believe that an entrenched GOP would give sweetheart deals to connected individuals and big corporations. This just cannot be. Perhaps all of those Tax Commission workers are just disgruntled state workers (or former state workers) that are now off their medications (since their health insurance has been stripped). How can we even begin to believe that our rulers are not standing up for the little guy?
BobEly on September 08 at 11:36 a.m.
Where’s Phil Hart when we need him?