Ocasio Cortez in Hot Water As Warrant Issued Amidst her Tax Fraud Charges.

Due to her inability to pay a state tax order filed against her insolvent corporation five years ago, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, a member of the Democratic Party in New York, is facing rising fines.

The socialist lawmaker who wants to raise taxes on many Americans has ironically chosen not to pay the taxes she is accountable for.

Ocasio-Cortez started the publishing company Brook Avenue Press in 2012 with a focus on children’s books. In order to recover $1,618 in unpaid corporate taxes, the state of New York issued a tax warrant against Brook Avenue Press on July 6, 2017. Ocasio-Cortez owes unpaid corporate taxes, according to a report in the Washington Examiner, but she has not made even a single payment toward them. Due to this, the tax warrant’s current balance has grown by 52% as of Wednesday afternoon, reaching $2,461.

The state of New York dissolved Brook Avenue Press in October 2016, according to corporation records. According to the Examiner, the state issued a tax warrant against Ocasio-company Cortez’s about two months after she started her victorious primary campaign against former Representative Joe Crowley (D-NY).

The tax warrant that was issued against Ocasio- Cortez’s, per the Bronx County Clerk’s Office, is still in effect.

 

AOC insisted in 2019 that she was not made aware of the tax order against her former company until after her inauguration into Congress in January of the same year. She claimed that after being elected to Congress, she learned of the tax warrant.

Ocasio-Cortez changed her statement that she would pay her past-due corporation tax payment to one in which she claimed the warrant was issued “in error” and that she would dispute it with the Bronx County Clerk’s Office. Ocasio-Cortez changed her statement on how she would pay her past-due company tax payment to one about her dispute with the Bronx County Clerk.

“The congresswoman’s tax warrant challenge is still in its early stages. Although the company had been shut down for many years, Ocasio-Cortez spokesman Lauren Hitt told the New York Post in May 2020 that the franchise tax had been paid. Hitt stated, “We believe the state Tax Department has continued to collect the franchise tax by error.

According to Hitt, everyone attempting to appeal a tax bill has the misconception that the procedure requires time.

 

In a recent article published in the Washington Examiner:

 

As the creator of Brook Avenue Press, Ocasio-Cortez identified herself on the financial disclosure form she provided to the House of Representatives in 2018. Most likely, Ocasio-Cortez has the money on hand to pay out the back taxes owed to her company. The representative has been a member of the House of Representatives for three years, during which time she has received a salary that has netted her $522,000 before taxes.

Ocasio-Cortez called for high-income individuals to be subject to tax rates of up to 70% in order to finance the Green New Deal, her comprehensive plan to address the climate catastrophe. This was one of her first official activities as a member of Congress.

 

It was discovered in April that Ocasio-2018 Cortez’s campaign and her former chief of staff failed to disclose almost one million dollars in expenses, but this information was kept secret.

 

The Federal Election Commission conducted a two-year inquiry after receiving complaints that Saikat Chakrabarti, the former chief of staff for AOC, had used two political action groups to direct the spending. As a result, the filings were made available.

The National Legal and Policy Center filed a complaint against the self-described democratic socialist from New York in March 2019. Despite the FEC’s findings, a six-person panel within the organization decided that the case should be dropped.

Paul Kamenar, the lawyer for the NLPC, claims that the Federal Election Commission has pursued a broad spectrum of individuals, even though their infractions pale in contrast to the magnitude of this scheme. It seems that in this case, prosecutorial bias is at play rather than prosecutorial discretion.

The NLPC asserts that the FEC took more than 30 days to publicly release the findings of its investigation. According to an NLPC representative, this may have been done to avoid a legal challenge.

 

The FEC’s decision to publish its statement of reasons after the deadline for us to file suit was quite unusual, according to Tom Anderson, head of the NLPC’s Government Integrity Project. Tom Anderson noticed this and said it.

 

Another argument he highlighted was that the group did not wait for the agency’s findings before contesting it in court.