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<text id=90TT1345>
<title>
May 21, 1990: Taxman, Spare That Tree
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<history>
TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1990
May 21, 1990 John Sununu:Bush's Bad Cop
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<source>Time Magazine</source>
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GRAPEVINE, Page 17
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<p>By David Ellis/Reported by David E. Thigpen
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<p> TAXMAN, SPARE THAT TREE. The winners of the first Goldman
Environmental Prizes, a new award for champions of Mother
Earth, were supposed to get $60,000 apiece. Not so fast, says
the IRS, which is demanding that the foundation withhold some
$22,000 in federal and local taxes from the five foreign
winners. Lois Gibbs, the U.S. honoree, will not be docked since
she is obliged to declare her winnings as income (prizes to
Americans, including the Nobels, used to be exempt, but no
longer are). The notion of taxing people like Kenyan Michael
Werikhe, who is fighting to save the black rhino, has
foundation officials fuming. Says one: "Just the amount
withheld for the Federal Government is equal in some cases to
five times their annual earnings."
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