John Kerry says $819,848 tax lien is clerical error

WASHINGTON (AP) -The Internal Revenue Service has filed a $819,848 tax lien against Sen. John Kerry’s 2004 presidential campaign.
   
But Kerry blames an IRS clerical error for the claim and says his campaign owes no tax penalties. The Massachusetts Democrat says the IRS mishandled payroll tax forms that he says were correctly filed by his campaign in 2005.
   
A Kerry spokesman says it’s all “a clerical matter, nothing more, nothing less.“ An IRS spokesman says employees are precluded by law from commenting on tax cases.