Springfield councilwoman and mayoral candidate Kristi Fulnecky produced IRS documents indicating a $92,731 tax lien filed against her has been withdrawn.
Last week, Fulnecky told Springfield Business Journal the individual lien filed March 1 in Greene County was made in error. Listing Kristi and Eric Fulnecky and a residential address, the lien stated the two owed taxes for the years ending 2011-12 and 2014-15.
“Like I said last week, I pay my taxes and actually have been overpaying for several years,” Fulnecky said in a statement on her
campaign Facebook page. “This entire situation occurred because I chose to refile several years of tax returns once my CPA stated that we have actually been overpaying.”
The documentation dated March 20 lists the sender as the IRS and says Fulnecky’s application to have the lien withdrawn has been approved. A copy also is being mailed to the Greene County recorder’s office, according to the letter. The
lien still was posted this morning on the recorder’s office website. Fulnecky said it may not be removed until Thursday. Leslie Cunningham, a supervisor with the recorder’s office, said the lien withdrawal has not yet made it to the county.
“As soon as we receive it, we record it,” she said, noting a lien removal is rare. “You don’t see too many withdrawals.”
Alongside the IRS letter, Fulnecky also posted a news release calling on local media outlets to apologize. In addition to SBJ, the
Springfield News-Leader and
KY3 also reported about the lien filed against the councilwoman and mayoral candidate.
“While the vast majority of the media appropriately decided not to do a story on a lien that was filed in error, some in the media put out reports that now everyone knows were false,” she said in the release. “It is my sincere hope that these entities will spend the same amount of air time and column space on the truth. It is my hope in the future that lies on social media will not become news stories in the future.”
The lien that appeared in SBJ’s March 13 On the Record section was
photographed by a reader and shared 20 times on Facebook.
Next month, Fulnecky is slated to face off against Ken McClure in the Springfield mayoral election.
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