London Mayor Boris Johnson is not taking the bait. He refuses to pay a tax assessment that the IRS claims he owes. The Mayor was born in New York and holds a U.S. passport as well as a British one.

What brought this issue into the public spotlight? While visiting the U.S. last week to promote his new book, Mayor Johnson was interviewed by a reporter with National Public Radio (NPR). During that interview, he revealed that he had received a proposed assessment from the IRS for capital gains tax resulting from the sale of his primary home in the U.K. What makes this story so tantalizing is the fact that Mayor Johnson just recently criticized the U.S. embassy in London over its failure to pay the congestion tax. Hasn’t the mayor heard of the expression, “People who live in glass houses shouldn’t throw Read More