Monday, September 24, 2012
Board of Education Member Hasn’t Paid Motor Vehicle Taxes in 2 Years!
According to the records of the tax collector’s office, Board of Education member Carlos Pina Jr. is among the growing list of elected officials and city commissioners that are delinquent on their taxes.
The records show the following delinquencies regarding Mr. Pina’s motor vehicle taxes for a 2001 Mercedes Benz:
2010 taxes that would have been due and payable by July 1, 2011: $276.92, plus interest of $62.25, for a total due of $339.17
2011 taxes that would have been due and payable by July 1, 2012: $241.68, plus interest of $10.89, for a total due of $252.57
Mr. Pina’s total tax liability totals $591.74—including the interest due through the month of September 2012.
fs
Subscribe to:
Post Comments (Atom)
10 comments:
Apparently the left leaning liberal media only cares about senate candidates being delinquent on their taxes. They don't seem to find it newsworthy when local elected officials don't pay their taxes.
It is the responsibility of the taxpayer to pay his taxes,whether he/she id an eleccted official or not.
Mr. Pina is an arogant individual that thinks he is above anything or anybody.
Poor example for the hispanic community . He should resign.
Typical Democrat.
Someone is really setting a good example for the children!
COMMENTS by Nicholas Mercier/ CPOA President...
In a statement issued on Sept. 4, 2012, State Comptroller Kevin Lembo announced that Connecticut ended fiscal year 2012 with a $143.6 million deficit. State revenues from fees and taxes fell over $225 million short of the target set by Governor Malloy’s budget. Lembo went on to urge caution in the beginning months of the 2013 fiscal year. Spending is only budgeted to increase 2.6% in the upcoming year, but Lembo seems to imply this figure may be unrealistic, saying “This rate of increase is historically low and will require careful monitoring and swift remedial action if [it] trend[s] higher.”
New Britain residents should take careful note of this turn of events, because they could be playing out in our own city as well. Malloy promised that he would reduce government spending through consolidation and employee retirement incentives. He promised that he would increase revenues through additional taxes and fees. Malloy promised a balanced budget; yet at the close of the books, he took over $140 million from the General Fund reserves to cover his shortfall.
When Mayor O’Brien took office, he made many similar promises to taxpayers. O’Brien promised that he would reduce city spending through consolidation and employee retirement incentives. He promised that he increase municipal revenues through additional fines and service fees. He made all these promises, but just like with Malloy’s budget, it appears O’Brien’s budget will fall short of the mark as well.
There are several new revenue lines in O’Brien’s budget. Four in particular include the Anti Blight Fine revenue ($425,000), the Police Call Hotspot Fee revenue ($800,000), the Fire Call Hot Spot revenue ($300,000), and the Non-Owner Occupied Garbage Collection Fee ($3,950,000).
These lines total to roughly $5.5 million. We are certain that when the City of NB responds to an FOI request, that was filed with Acting Finance Director Rebecca Salerni it will reveal that as of yet there have been no funds generated in any of these account lines...zero
Even more worrisome than this potential shortfall of $5.5 million is the line item for over $10.4 million that is listed as “Transition Revenue.” After speaking with multiple members of the Common Council no one was able to explain to us what this extremely large revenue source was, or where the money was going to come from, though we would like to add that Aldermen Freeman, Giantonio, Pabon, and Sanchez all said they would look into the matter for CPOA.
It is a bit alarming that members of the Common Council wouldn’t know where just under 4.5 percent of our municipal revenue was coming from. Equally troubling is that almost 7 percent of the city’s revenue is currently missing in action.
The sad fact is that Comptroller Lembo raised an alarm because of a shortfall that was less than 1 percent of the total State budget. Here in New Britain we are facing a far more daunting prospect, a potential shortfall in our budget of over 5 percent unless something drastically changes. We raised concerns about nebulous revenues in the municipal budget back in May, and here we are two months in the new fiscal year and still these questions remain unanswered.
New Britain property owners and tax payers beware, we may soon be facing the same budgetary woes of the Malloy administration... A Structural Fiscal Budget Deficit means higher taxes.
The example seems to be that politicians don't pay taxes!
The BOE complains about fiscal responsibility andalways wanting more money. Now we have more BOE members deliquent.
They both should resign.
How can you trust any of these deliquent tax dodgers. They should resign. They are all a disgrace as citizens and democrats.
Frank, isn't he the V.P. of the B.O.E.?
He is the VP of the BOE. He is a yes person for sharin beloin. Maybeshe should join the ranks of the infamous rio of tax dodgers and resign,
Better yet the Dem Town Chairman should ask them all to resign. Save whats left of the good Dems that are there.
``He does not deserve the position of VP. He knows nothing about school law.
He ran for alderman and lost awhile back. He tells everyone that he has Sharon in hisback pocket and Mr Cooper is his drinking budy.
Post a Comment