President Biden’s daughter Ashley owes about $5,000 in income taxes, according to lien documents obtained by The Post on Monday.
The Philadelphia County office of the Pennsylvania Department of Revenue notified the 42-year-old woman that a $5,079.44 tax lien had been placed on her property, a Dec. 1 notice. obtained for the first time by Fox News broadcasts.
Liens are used by the government to recover money from unpaid taxes. In this case, the first daughter had two liens placed on her property for nonpayment of income taxes in 2015 – when her father was vice president – and in 2021, during the first year of the president’s term. his father as president..
Ashley Biden evaded $1,691 and $1,956 in taxes for those two years, respectively, and was assessed $2,736 and $2,249 in liens, as well as a filing fee of $94.44, according to the filing in the Philadelphia Court of Common Pleas.
The Post has reached out to Ashley Biden’s lawyer and the White House for comment.
Rep. Dan Meuser (R-Pa.), who served as Pennsylvania’s revenue secretary from 2011 to 2015, told the Post that tax delinquencies were the result of “liens or negligence.”
“Ashley Biden has an estimated net worth of nearly $2 million, and she can’t even find the time to pay $5,000 of her Pennsylvania taxes. Therefore, the Commonwealth has a lien on its property, meaning PA is a priority creditor and must be paid before Ashley can make a substantial financial transaction,” Meuser told the Post.
“At best it’s sad, at worst it’s illegal. Complying with tax obligations in Pennsylvania is not difficult, and in Ashley Biden’s case, she has the means to pay her taxes. Joe Biden loves to berate American taxpayers in the highest tax bracket – maybe there are a few other people he should be berating.
Ashley Biden is the president’s youngest child and has already made news with reports about his past as a party animal and more recently for the theft of one of his diarieswho fueled several stories about his father in the final days of the 2020 elections.
In August 2022, two Florida residents pleaded guilty in Manhattan court to stealing the newspaper and other belongings from Ashley’s Florida home and selling them to the conservative store Project Veritas.
The diary included “highly personal entries,” prosecutors noted, and were taken along with tax records, a cell phone and a data drive containing family photos.
A widely circulated article in which Ashley wrote about “showers with my dad” as a young girl that were “probably not appropriate” was previously reported by the right-wing media National File.
The Pennsylvania tax lien was filed six days before the arrival of her first son, Hunter Biden. indicted on nine counts of tax evasion of $1.4 million between 2016 and 2019.
The indictment included three felony charges of tax evasion and filing false returns about his personal and business income during two of those years — and six misdemeanor charges for failure to pay taxes during that time.
Special counsel David Weiss said Hunter Biden “spent millions of dollars on an extravagant lifestyle rather than paying his tax bills,” including on “drugs, escorts and girlfriends, hotels luxury and rental properties, exotic cars, clothing and other items of great utility.” personal nature, in short, everything except his taxes,” the indictment states.
The first son faces up to 17 years in prison if convicted on all counts.
“Whether small or large (and this is admittedly small and has nothing to do with the scale of Hunter’s depravity and criminality), the Bidens are the living embodiment of “hypocrisy,” said Garrett Ziegler, founder of the nonprofit Marco Polo and a former aide to the president. Donald Trump, told the Post.
“Joe constantly talks about how rich, connected people don’t pay their fair share and can afford to pay more, and it turns out that his two living children haven’t paid their taxes,” Ziegler also said. told Fox News in an interview Friday. “This is just another example of Biden neglect. »
“You’d think they’d be a little more careful when you’re in America’s first family to make sure you don’t have tax liens on you, especially heading into an election year “, he added.
Former Trump aide founded the website BidenLaptopMedia.comwhich contains nearly 10,000 photos of Hunter’s famous laptop taken between 2008 and 2019, corroborating many details of his recent indictment.
Ziegler told Fox News that his Marco Polo team discovered the tax lien during a search of the Philadelphia County Courthouse database.
He also denied that the recent tax lien disclosure was “a major blow” or that he and his team were “Republican activists.”
“None of us are registered Republicans,” the former White House aide said. “In fact, I liked and still like Trump precisely because he was not a standard Republican. So it’s not a successful job.
“We will keep all photos that show the Bidens in a good light and all photos that show the Bidens in a bad light. With this, the American people can judge for themselves what they think of their first family.
Earlier this year, in an interview with Elle magazine, Ashley Biden discussed her plans for a wellness space in Philadelphia to treat formerly incarcerated women suffering from trauma.
The company reportedly uses holistic therapies, such as infrared saunas and EMDR, as well as mediation – remedies similar to those that she says helped her cope with the death of her half-brother, l Former Delaware Attorney General Beau Biden following brain cancer. 2015.
“I was able to get great treatment and so I was able to take some of the things I learned in therapy and use them as well,” Ashley told the outlet in a March 28 profile.
The first daughter – like her half-brother Hunter – has had her own run-ins with the law, including for possession of marijuana while a student at Tulane University in 1999 and for allegedly obstructing a police officer who was trying to breaking up a fight outside a bar in Chicago in 2002.
The first incident was never charged, while the 2002 case was dropped.