‘Tax Commission Gone Wild’ Goes After College Partyers

Five college students who informally sponsored a few parties and made exaggerated and humorous claims about them on MySpace were stunned when the Oklahoma Tax Commission visited the site, took their claims completely seriously, and demanded hundreds of thousands of dollars in taxes and penalties.

The Tax Commission apparently believed the University of Central Oklahoma students when they made online claims such as “Over a billion served!” and “The biggest party in the country!”

The students hosted some parties at which they charged guys $5 and let girls in free. The goal was to meet women and pay for drinks, and the group never made more than a few hundred dollars, says student Jordan Glover, now 23.

“Being a cool guy was the main objective,” Glover said. “We were just college students having fun and acting stupid.”

But the Tax Commission carefully analyzed what Glover calls “exaggerated hype” on MySpace and estimated that the students operated a million-dollar business on which they owe beverage, sales and tourism taxes, plus penalties and interest.

Glover pleads, “If there’s any attorney out there who remembers what it was like in college and wants to give us some free help, we could sure use it.”

Source: The Oklahoman.

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