Shocker! Former Sheila Jackson Lee Staffer Owes Back Taxes A former chief of staff to Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee (D., Texas) owed at least $150,000 in back taxes to the IRS in 2009, records show. Nat Thomas, who served as Jackson Lee’s chief of staff from May to September 2010, filed his termination financial disclosure with the House Office of Public Records in December 2011, more than a year after the formal deadline. Thomas listed two tax liabilities incurred in 2009. According to the disclosure form, he owed between $100,001-$250,000 to the Internal Revenue Service, and between $50,001-$100,000 to the state of Maryland. From 2006 to 2007, Thomas worked in the office of Rep. Maxine Waters (D., Calif.) as a staffer on the Financial Services Committee, where he earned an annual salary of $68,000. It is unclear where Thomas worked after leaving Waters’ office, before being hired by Jackson Lee. His disclosure forms lists “consulting” fees of $12,500 paid by the Federal Home Loan Bank of San Francisco and the Washington, D.C., lobbying firm Laura Murphy & Associates LLC. Thomas is perhaps best known for his defense of Jackson Lee’s peculiar comments about the country of Vietnam in July 2010.

Shocker! Former Sheila Jackson Lee Staffer Owes Back Taxes

A former chief of staff to Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee (D., Texas) owed at least $150,000 in back taxes to the IRS in 2009, records show.

Nat Thomas, who served as Jackson Lee’s chief of staff from May to September 2010, filed his termination financial disclosure with the House Office of Public Records in December 2011, more than a year after the formal deadline.

Thomas listed two tax liabilities incurred in 2009. According to the disclosure form, he owed between $100,001-$250,000 to the Internal Revenue Service, and between $50,001-$100,000 to the state of Maryland.

From 2006 to 2007, Thomas worked in the office of Rep. Maxine Waters (D., Calif.) as a staffer on the Financial Services Committee, where he earned an annual salary of $68,000.

It is unclear where Thomas worked after leaving Waters’ office, before being hired by Jackson Lee. His disclosure forms lists “consulting” fees of $12,500 paid by the Federal Home Loan Bank of San Francisco and the Washington, D.C., lobbying firm Laura Murphy & Associates LLC.

Thomas is perhaps best known for his defense of Jackson Lee’s peculiar comments about the country of Vietnam in July 2010.