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The great plane debate. Are they planes or junk?; Are Graves airplane parts taxable or not?
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| Contributor | RBH |
| Last Edited | RBH Oct 12, 2008 11:25pm |
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| News Date | Wednesday, October 8, 2008 05:00:00 AM UTC0:0 |
| Description | The Missouri Democratic Party took aim at 6th District Congressman Sam Graves today, arguing that he's failed to declare and pay personal property taxes on two airplanes. But the Graves campaign responds this is a ludicrous charge that _ just like the two planes _ will never get off the ground.
The Atchison County assessor, who collects the forms on which personal property is declared, says the two planes are not flyable, are used for junk parts and aren't subject to assessment or taxation.
At a morning press conference in Kansas City, Missouri State Auditor Susan Montee presented documents showing that the Graves family owns eight planes, which are disclosed on Federal Aviation Administration and Missouri Tax Commission forms.
But two of those planes, purchased in 2006, are not listed on Graves' Achison County property disclosures or 2007 tax records. Montee argued this was an example of Graves getting "special treatment" and evading taxes.She noted she was speaking as a citizen and 6th District resident, not as state auditor. The Democratic Party staff looked into the issue, not the state auditor's office.
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Jones said Graves' wife Lesley called her office after the planes were purchased in late 2006, and a personal property clerk told her it was not necessary to declare them. "It's not like he was trying to avoid anything," Jones said.
Jones admits she never looked at the planes, but said she doesn't check out other residents' personal property either, and that if Graves were lying, she would have heard about it. |
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