Anonymous
Post 07/24/2018 06:27     Subject: Latest on Ellington
Every year, I use records to prove residency that show how much I pay in taxes. I redact the $ fields. No one objects. They really don’t care how much you make.
Anonymous
Post 07/23/2018 20:11     Subject: Re:Latest on Ellington
Anonymous wrote:You need a certified copy of your DC tax return to receive DC TAG. It should also be required for proving residency for DCPS.


First, every dcps parent is not going to schlep downtown to get some form certified.

Second, its noone's business how much we make.

If you want to go there, the tax people should provide all schools a master list of residents who paid taxes and their home address.

Anonymous
Post 07/23/2018 17:59     Subject: Re:Latest on Ellington
You need a certified copy of your DC tax return to receive DC TAG. It should also be required for proving residency for DCPS.
Anonymous
Post 07/23/2018 17:31     Subject: Latest on Ellington
We filed our paperwork in April. Just received a call to come back and re-sign the documents because they couldn't read the first name on the signature. Sorry - that's the signature on my license too. They were mad that we are on vacation until school starts.
Anonymous
Post 07/23/2018 17:19     Subject: Latest on Ellington
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:IG is coming for everyone now -- not just Ellington.

Let's see how everyone feels about digging up records to re-prove residency

https://twitter.com/maustermuhle/status/1021489301325078531





Wow. Well, this should put the fear in people at least somewhat.


Hopefully getting the data in the requested format will allow them to do some cross-checks, like against tax records or internal data cross-checks (making sure there aren’t 10 families using the same address).


IG can't access individual tax records without taxpayers permission .. not sure what this fishing expedition is really going to surface


It can check enrollment address against payroll address for city and DCPS employees, for starters.
Anonymous
Post 07/23/2018 17:12     Subject: Latest on Ellington
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:IG is coming for everyone now -- not just Ellington.

Let's see how everyone feels about digging up records to re-prove residency

https://twitter.com/maustermuhle/status/1021489301325078531





Wow. Well, this should put the fear in people at least somewhat.


Hopefully getting the data in the requested format will allow them to do some cross-checks, like against tax records or internal data cross-checks (making sure there aren’t 10 families using the same address).


IG can't access individual tax records without taxpayers permission .. not sure what this fishing expedition is really going to surface
Anonymous
Post 07/23/2018 17:11     Subject: Latest on Ellington
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:IG is coming for everyone now -- not just Ellington.

Let's see how everyone feels about digging up records to re-prove residency

https://twitter.com/maustermuhle/status/1021489301325078531





Wow. Well, this should put the fear in people at least somewhat.


Hopefully getting the data in the requested format will allow them to do some cross-checks, like against tax records or internal data cross-checks (making sure there aren’t 10 families using the same address).


Or the city and DCPS payroll and withholding data. Or Maryland tax rolls.
Anonymous
Post 07/23/2018 17:10     Subject: Latest on Ellington
Anonymous wrote:IG is coming for everyone now -- not just Ellington.

Let's see how everyone feels about digging up records to re-prove residency

https://twitter.com/maustermuhle/status/1021489301325078531





FINALLY!!!!!!!!

Anonymous
Post 07/23/2018 17:10     Subject: Latest on Ellington
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:IG is coming for everyone now -- not just Ellington.

Let's see how everyone feels about digging up records to re-prove residency

https://twitter.com/maustermuhle/status/1021489301325078531





Wow. Well, this should put the fear in people at least somewhat.


Hopefully getting the data in the requested format will allow them to do some cross-checks, like against tax records or internal data cross-checks (making sure there aren’t 10 families using the same address).
Anonymous
Post 07/23/2018 17:08     Subject: Latest on Ellington
Anonymous wrote:IG is coming for everyone now -- not just Ellington.

Let's see how everyone feels about digging up records to re-prove residency

https://twitter.com/maustermuhle/status/1021489301325078531





Wow. Well, this should put the fear in people at least somewhat.
Anonymous
Post 07/23/2018 16:54     Subject: Latest on Ellington
Anonymous wrote:IG is coming for everyone now -- not just Ellington.

Let's see how everyone feels about digging up records to re-prove residency

https://twitter.com/maustermuhle/status/1021489301325078531





How would I feel about it? Next to all the other much more onerous burdens of democratic citizenship (filing taxes, jury duty, DMV inspections, parking tickets, etc etc) -- are you serious? No big whoop.
Anonymous
Post 07/23/2018 16:47     Subject: Latest on Ellington
Anonymous wrote:IG is coming for everyone now -- not just Ellington.

Let's see how everyone feels about digging up records to re-prove residency

https://twitter.com/maustermuhle/status/1021489301325078531





Fine. Happy to provide. Now then, how are they going to improve things going forward?
Anonymous
Post 07/23/2018 16:46     Subject: Latest on Ellington
IG is coming for everyone now -- not just Ellington.

Let's see how everyone feels about digging up records to re-prove residency

https://twitter.com/maustermuhle/status/1021489301325078531



Anonymous
Post 07/23/2018 16:44     Subject: Latest on Ellington
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/education/families-accused-in-arts-school-drama-wonder-if-theres-a-prequel/2018/07/22/67c7e9ce-8b6b-11e8-8aea-86e88ae760d8_story.html


From this column. Ridiculous.

"...David Greene is one of the parents accused of residency fraud. “OSSE concluded that we are still residents of Maryland based on the fact that we owned a property there from 2008-2014,” he said in a letter to three D.C. Council members. The investigators told him that his documentation of D.C. residence appeared to be false because “the address on the documentation is a home owned by a senior receiving the homestead deduction.” Greene said he is the renter, not the owner, of the property.

Greene said the sale of his Maryland home in 2014 is a matter of public record. He has had a valid D.C. driver’s license since 2015. He is registered to vote in the District. He got a D.C. jury summons and did his service in June. He has been paying D.C. taxes since 2015.

He is confident that he will be cleared, but what about parents who don’t have his advantages? “I am really worried that there are Ellington families for whom this is and will continue to be an overwhelming burden,” he said. “This investigation not only seems flawed and unfair, it seems mean.”"


So he is not renting a legal rental unit - and wonders why there is confusion.


That's on his landlord, not him. How would he even know that his landlord was still claiming the homestead exemption?

Dude did jury duty -- that's proof enough for me (no one would do jury duty if they didn't live in the city), and can produce tax returns.


I rented for a couple of years. I've no way of knowing whether my landlord was a tax cheat. That is NOT on the renter.


Uh, yeah, so what's the big effing deal in this case, then? Dude proved his residency, and he's off the hook. If being required to provide appropriate papers like this constitutes undue hardship...god help us all.[/quote

I agree. While it’s too bad this guy had to deal with proving again that he is a DC resident, it seems like he has done so, and frankly this is the sort of situation that should get caught in an investigation or audit. Yes, it’s on his landlord and not him in this case but seems totally reasonable it was flagged.
Anonymous
Post 07/23/2018 16:19     Subject: Latest on Ellington
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/education/families-accused-in-arts-school-drama-wonder-if-theres-a-prequel/2018/07/22/67c7e9ce-8b6b-11e8-8aea-86e88ae760d8_story.html


From this column. Ridiculous.

"...David Greene is one of the parents accused of residency fraud. “OSSE concluded that we are still residents of Maryland based on the fact that we owned a property there from 2008-2014,” he said in a letter to three D.C. Council members. The investigators told him that his documentation of D.C. residence appeared to be false because “the address on the documentation is a home owned by a senior receiving the homestead deduction.” Greene said he is the renter, not the owner, of the property.

Greene said the sale of his Maryland home in 2014 is a matter of public record. He has had a valid D.C. driver’s license since 2015. He is registered to vote in the District. He got a D.C. jury summons and did his service in June. He has been paying D.C. taxes since 2015.

He is confident that he will be cleared, but what about parents who don’t have his advantages? “I am really worried that there are Ellington families for whom this is and will continue to be an overwhelming burden,” he said. “This investigation not only seems flawed and unfair, it seems mean.”"


So he is not renting a legal rental unit - and wonders why there is confusion.


That's on his landlord, not him. How would he even know that his landlord was still claiming the homestead exemption?

Dude did jury duty -- that's proof enough for me (no one would do jury duty if they didn't live in the city), and can produce tax returns.


I rented for a couple of years. I've no way of knowing whether my landlord was a tax cheat. That is NOT on the renter.


Uh, yeah, so what's the big effing deal in this case, then? Dude proved his residency, and he's off the hook. If being required to provide appropriate papers like this constitutes undue hardship...god help us all.