Help me understand you, Andy. What are you getting at? That he owed back-taxes? I agree. He was given extra money at the time he incurred the taxes to cover the taxes. Agreed completely. Tim Geithner owed back-taxes.
Lots of people owe back-taxes. Plenty of Republican businesspeople think its their moral duty not to pay taxes as long as possible.
You're a tax cheat when you reorganize yourself as a shell S-Corporation, claim that a reasonable annual salary is $5,000, and then take your entire annual income as a distribution. Thousands of people do this, most will never get caught.
I have a hard time believing that simply not paying what you owe, or even filing an incorrect tax return, makes you a "cheat". Lots of people get audited. Many of them will owe. Most of those people are not cheaters.
You keep "forgeting" the part where he was told what that money was for.
And yes, someone who can't manage to do their taxes shouldn't be in charge of the IRS. Other jobs maybe, but the IRS, nope.
Except that Geitner wasn't an "entrepreneur", he was supposedly a public servant.
The Treasury department includes the IRS. You remember them - they're in charge of enforcing "voluntary" compliance.
As to "it's too complicated", he's supposed to be smart guy. They even told him the rules AND he signed documents yearly acknowledging that he understood those rules AND he accepted money to pay these taxes.