Socialist Biden Challenger Owes Over $500,000 To IRS

New reports have revealed Presidential candidate Cornel West hasn’t been paying his taxes.

A recent investigative report discovered Cornel West owes close to $500,000 in taxes.

In the past West has been a big advocate of taxing the rich but appears to not want to pay taxes himself.

The IRS filed liens against West in 2005, 2014, 2015, 2016, and 2017.

West also reportedly owes over $49,000 in child support payments.

Philosopher and presidential Green Party candidate Cornel West currently owes more than half a million dollars between unpaid taxes and unpaid child support, according to tax records. https://t.co/gJ0aorELzl

— ABC News (@ABC) August 18, 2023

Socialist Scholar Cornel West Owes $500,000 In Taxes https://t.co/CnaK8jIXMF

— zerohedge (@zerohedge) August 17, 2023

Per ABC News:

Philosopher and presidential Green Party candidate Cornel West currently owes more than half a million dollars between unpaid taxes and unpaid child support, according to tax records.

Records show West owes nearly $466,000 in federal income taxes from 2013 until 2017. This came after he accrued (and later repaid) a debt of nearly $725,000 from 1998-2005, and more than $34,000 in 2008, according to tax records in Mercer County, New Jersey – where he owns a home.

Additionally, West has an outstanding $49,500 child support judgement from 2003, records show.

Green Party candidate Cornel West owes more than half a million dollars in taxes and child support: Records https://t.co/VBsPOvaxMo via @Yahoo

— Don Winslow (@donwinslow) August 18, 2023

Per The New Republic:

Presidential candidate Cornel West, who has spent most of his career advocating for higher taxes on the wealthy, owes the IRS more than half a million dollars in unpaid taxes.

Throughout his decades in the public eye, West, who is an academic at elite institutions and a bestselling author, has blasted the concentration of wealth at the top of U.S. society. Since announcing his run for president, first on the People’s Party ticket and currently on the Green Party’s, he has argued that taxes on the wealthiest Americans need to be “higher, much higher.”

But West hasn’t been putting his money where his mouth is—literally. An investigation by The Daily Beast, published Thursday, found that West owes $543,778.78 in unpaid taxes. The Beast cited tax filings in Mercer County, New Jersey, where West owns a house in the town of Princeton, and in Los Angeles, where West’s personal attorney is.