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Geithner failed to pay self-employment taxes

WASHINGTON - President-elect Barack Obama's choice to run the Treasury Department and lead the nation's economic rescue disclosed publicly yesterday that he failed to pay $34,000 in taxes from 2001 to 2004, a last-minute complication that Senate Democrats tried to brush aside as a minor bump on an otherwise smooth path to confirmation.

Timothy Geithner paid most of the past-due taxes days...

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