Mick Mulvaney: Failing to Pay Nanny Tax on Babysitter a ‘Mistake’

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MULVANEY: "During the transition I got a checklist. Have you ever had a babysitter, a nanny or au pair or governess, whatever? And I said yes. And then they sent me an IRS circular. First time I'd seen it, i read it and it'd made immediately clear to me that I had made a mistake and that the IRS viewed our babysitter as a household employee for whom we should have withheld taxes. I did the only thing I knew to do which is simply tell everybody who I thought would care, I told the president, I told the transition team, I called my CPA and I said, look, what's the best way to fix this? It's a mistake. It's been made. I now know about it, how do we fix it."