{"id":10774,"date":"2013-11-04T10:21:59","date_gmt":"2013-11-04T15:21:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/?p=10774"},"modified":"2013-11-04T10:21:59","modified_gmt":"2013-11-04T15:21:59","slug":"irs-claims-juan-pablo-montoya-owes-2-7-million","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/2013\/11\/04\/irs-claims-juan-pablo-montoya-owes-2-7-million\/","title":{"rendered":"IRS claims Juan Pablo Montoya owes $2.7 million"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/files\/2013\/11\/20131104-102051.jpg\" alt=\"20131104-102051.jpg\" class=\"alignnone size-full\" \/><br \/>\nThe Internal Revenue Service says that NASCAR driver Juan Pablo Montoya owes $2.7 million in taxes and penalties.<\/p>\n<p>Montoya had $9.5 million in taxable income in 2007 and 2008 but claimed only $2.4 million on his joint return with his wife according to the agency. In a previously unkonwn lawsuit filed in U.S. Tax Court, Montoya concedes that in those two years he had nearly $800,000 more in gross receipts but challenges the IRS&#8217; claim of $9.5 million.<\/p>\n<p>Next season Montoya will return to IndyCar with Penske Racing. He has two races left in NASCAR driving the No. 42 car of Earnhardt Ganassi Racing.<\/p>\n<p>The IRS case against Montoya centers around actions undertook as he arrived in the U.S. to compete in NASCAR. For those interested in reading more about Montoya I suggest you check out the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/janetnovack\/2013\/11\/03\/irs-waves-black-flag-at-race-car-driver-juan-pablo-montoya\/\" target=\"new\" rel=\"nofollow\">Forbes article<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Internal Revenue Service says that NASCAR driver Juan Pablo Montoya owes $2.7 million in taxes and penalties. Montoya had $9.5 million in taxable income in 2007 and 2008 but claimed only $2.4 million on his joint return with his wife according to the agency. In a previously unkonwn lawsuit filed in U.S. Tax Court, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":10773,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[788],"tags":[348,708],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-10774","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news","tag-juan-pablo-montoya","tag-nascar"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10774","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10774"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10774\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10773"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10774"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10774"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10774"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=10774"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}