{"id":997,"date":"2016-03-01T20:11:07","date_gmt":"2016-03-01T20:11:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/columbiagradunion.org\/?p=997"},"modified":"2016-03-08T19:44:15","modified_gmt":"2016-03-08T19:44:15","slug":"new-york-elected-leaders-voice-their-concern-and-urge-columbia-to-take-action-on-international-graduate-worker-tax-problems","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/columbiagradunion.org\/2016\/03\/01\/new-york-elected-leaders-voice-their-concern-and-urge-columbia-to-take-action-on-international-graduate-worker-tax-problems\/","title":{"rendered":"New York elected leaders urge Columbia to take action on international graduate worker tax problems!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today State Assemblywoman and Chair of the New York Higher Education Committee <strong>Deborah Glick<\/strong>, State Assemblyman <strong>Daniel O&#8217;Donnell<\/strong>, State Senator <strong>Bill Perkins<\/strong>, and Councilman <strong>Mark Levine<\/strong>\u00a0signed onto a letter citing Columbia&#8217;s negligence in handling the international student IRS bills and urging the administration to provide assistance to resolve this issue #ColumbiaCanDoBetter<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>We understand that as a result of Columbia University misreporting tax withholding information for international research and teaching assistants, many of these RAs and TAs have now received notices from the IRS to pay refunds \u2013 ranging up to thousands of dollars \u2013 on a very short timeline. We further understand that these RAs and TAs are deeply concerned because the University has advised some of them \u201cnot to pay\u201d as Columbia attempts to address the problem, even though some of these individuals\u2019 IRS deadlines are as early as March 7.<\/p>\n<p>We are concerned about the University\u2019s misreporting and its subsequent handling of the situation. If the University has a sound legal basis for advising RAs and TAs to ignore communications from the IRS, we urge you to immediately clarify that to all who are affected by the University\u2019s reporting error and provide assurance from the IRS that RAs and TAs will not be held liable for this problem created by the University. We also urge you to be responsive to the related requests made by these RAs and TAs.<\/p>\n<p>The University\u2019s negligence on this matter has distracted these RAs and TAs from focusing on the critical work of teaching undergraduates and carrying out innovative research that makes Columbia one of our state\u2019s prized institutions. Please act as quickly as possible to address the concerns raised by these employees and keep us apprised of progress.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/columbiagradunion.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/taxirsissue-20160301-POLITICIANS.png\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-998\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-998 colorbox-997\" src=\"https:\/\/columbiagradunion.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/taxirsissue-20160301-POLITICIANS-300x300.png\" alt=\"taxirsissue 20160301 POLITICIANS\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/columbiagradunion.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/taxirsissue-20160301-POLITICIANS-300x300.png 300w, https:\/\/columbiagradunion.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/taxirsissue-20160301-POLITICIANS-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/columbiagradunion.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/taxirsissue-20160301-POLITICIANS-768x768.png 768w, https:\/\/columbiagradunion.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/taxirsissue-20160301-POLITICIANS-270x270.png 270w, https:\/\/columbiagradunion.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/taxirsissue-20160301-POLITICIANS-230x230.png 230w, https:\/\/columbiagradunion.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/taxirsissue-20160301-POLITICIANS.png 1008w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today State Assemblywoman and Chair of the New York Higher Education Committee Deborah Glick, State Assemblyman Daniel O&#8217;Donnell, State Senator Bill Perkins, and Councilman Mark Levine\u00a0signed onto a letter citing Columbia&#8217;s negligence in handling the international student IRS bills and<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1005,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[12,15,5,4],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/columbiagradunion.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/taxirsissue-2016030101-political-photos.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/columbiagradunion.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/997"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/columbiagradunion.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/columbiagradunion.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/columbiagradunion.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/columbiagradunion.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=997"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/columbiagradunion.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/997\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1022,"href":"https:\/\/columbiagradunion.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/997\/revisions\/1022"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/columbiagradunion.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1005"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/columbiagradunion.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=997"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/columbiagradunion.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=997"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/columbiagradunion.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=997"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}