Sen. Jim Justice, R-W.Va., and his wife, Cathy Justice, have agreed to pay $5.16 million in back taxes for the 2009 tax year, immediately settling a lawsuit filed by the Justice Department at the request of the IRS.
The civil suit, which was filed on Monday in the Southern District of West Virginia, stated that the senator and his wife were contacted by a representative of the Treasury Department and advised of their outstanding debt for that tax year, but the couple has “neglected or refused to make full payment of those assessments to the United States.”
The government requested that the court compel them to pay the unpaid federal income tax as well as “statutory interest and other additions to tax accruing thereafter according to law until paid in full.”
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