claim: geithner's failure to pay self-employment taxes while working for the imf "is a mistake that is commonly made for people who are working internationally or for international institutions."
author: barack obama
evidence_1: tim geithner amid reports he failed to pay the correct amount on his taxes for a  period of time and employed a housekeeper whose work authorization had  expired.barack obama's team says tim geither,“quickly addressed” the mistakes  he made. members of the senate finance committee met with geithner over  concerns ...
evidence_2: jan 16, 2009 ... one came from obama, who defended geithner this week, saying his failure to  pay self-employment taxes while working for the imf "is a mistake that is  commonly made for people who are working internationally or for international  institutions." we ruled that statement mostly true. we also looked at a claim ...
evidence_3: jan 22, 2009 ... geithner's failure to pay self-employment taxes in the years 2001-2004 on his  imf income. 2. geithner's taking a dependent ... again, while turbotax did not  make a "mistake," turbotax would not have prompted geithner specifically about  the overnight summer camp. this time, however, the link "learn ...
evidence_4: timothy geithner served as u.s. secretary of treasury, having been appointed  by president barack obama to that position in 2009. ... for people in the top 1  percent for income, "your effective tax burden is in the low 20s, the lowest it's  been in decades and decades and decades -- lower than somebody who might  make ...
evidence_5: the failure to pay self-employment taxes was noted during a 2006 audit by the  internal revenue service, in which geithner was assessed additional taxes of  $14,847 for the 2003 and 2004 tax years. geithner failed to pay, or to admit his  failure to pay, the self-employment taxes for the 2001 and 2002 tax years until  after ...