IRS owes man 73,489 thoughts
Revenue payment made
ROYAL OAK, Mich. (UPI) Walter Ballew collected 73,489 pennies, dumped them into a trash can painted like an American flag, and said he would present the clinking heap to the Internal Revenue Service.
But the IRS doesn't want pennies. In fact, the IRS said they wouldn't take them when the gas station operator and a few hefty
friends carry them up the steps of the IRS office.
"Title 31, section 460 of the U.S. Code provides that minor coins—this would be pennies and nickels—amounting to 25 cents need not be accepted as legal tender in payment of taxes," a spokesman for the IRS said Tuesday.
"We'll cross that bridge when
Two alumni of the voice department at KU have recently appeared in New York musical productions.
Two KU alums appear in New York musicals
Shirley Potter, a soprano from Mendon, Mo., has left the cast of "Coco" for the forthcoming Broadway production "Look to the Lillies," said Charles McHarry in his "On the Town Column" in the New York Daily News.
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Miss Potter, who was a frequent soloist with KU musical groups and sang in several operas and musicals, received the bachelor of music degree in 1967. She has been working in New York most of the time since then.
we come to it," said Balew, 23. He'll come to the bridge—or the IRS office—Wednesday.
Robert Benton, a baritone who received a degree in theater and voice last year, has made his New York debut in a concert performance of Beethoven's "Fidelo" by the New York Philharmonic with Leonard Bernstein conducting.
Walter Giza, a collector for the IRS, presented Ballew with a $1.398 quarterly tax bill in November. The bill was for taxes and Social Security payments Ballew had withheld from employes' pay and should have given the government.
"I had terrific financial problems last year," Ballew said. "To make a long story short, I was in very deep trouble."
He said he paid off all his creditors except the IRS. By last Tuesday, he'd partially paid the IRS, and asked for three weeks to pay off the remainder, plus penalties and interest.
Giza "wouldn't even listen," Ballew said. "He told me to have the money Monday or he was going to put me out of business. "I just want to show him what it's like when people don't have any consideration for you."
Employes of Ballew decided to paint the garbage can red, white and blue with stars and stripes
Giza was supposed to collect the money Tuesday but notified the station he couldn't make it, so Ballew decided to take the mountain of pennies to the IRS.
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