Monday, October 25, 2010

The tax vultures have arrived

http://www.bnd.com/2010/10/24/1449554/if-these-taxes-are-not-paid-you.html

They charged her 18% interest on a fixed income.
Her county treasurer gets a donation made.
Here's another one of those things you just can't walk away from.
Investors have no business playing this field.
It's morally wrong.


Ora Leonard, 73, first learned about Dennis Ballinger in July 2009.

That’s when Leonard, a retired nurse, found a note left by an employee of Empire Tax Corp., one of Ballinger’s Decatur-based firms, on the front door of her tidy brick house at 619 Broadway.

In the note, Ballinger warned Leonard that he had bought up her 2005 back property taxes.