
                         Roanoke Times
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DATE: TUESDAY, April 3, 1990                   TAG: 9004030725
SECTION: VIRGINIA                    PAGE: A-4   EDITION: EVENING 
SOURCE: Associated Press
DATELINE: RICHMOND                                LENGTH: Short

COST OF FIGHT TOO HIGH, SO STATE GOP PAYS IRS FINE

The Virginia Republican Party has paid a $76,000 fine to the Internal Revenue Service for failure to pay withholding taxes, GOP executive director Joe Elton said.

"We did fight for a while, but then we were advised of the cost of the fight," Elton said Monday.

Late last year, state GOP chairman Donald W. Huffman announced that a former bookkeeper had not paid withholding taxes for 20 months. The GOP had to borrow money to pay the penalty and the $125,000 in back taxes. The bookkeeper was fired.

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