Tim Walzs China travel company was shut down after he failed to pay a $26 tax: report

Democratic vice presidential nominee Tim Walz’s China tourism company was dissolved by the state of Nebraska in 1998 after he failed to pay $26 in business operating taxes, according to a report. The Minnesota governor’s for-profit endeavor, Educational Travel Adventures, Inc., which catered to student groups seeking to travel to communist China, was shut down by the Nebraska secretary of state for  “non-payment of occupational taxes” in April 1998, the Washington Free Beacon reported on Monday. The company, co-founded by Walz and his wife, Gwen, was first registered in Nebraska in 1995. Despite his company going defunct, Walz continued organizing student tours of China, including at least two trips in 1998 and 2001, according to the outlet. In 2002, Walz founded another entity with the same name in Minnesota, which he touted during his 2006 run for Congress. “Walz established a small business called Educational Travel Adventures, Inc.through which he conducts annual educational trips to China for high school students,” reads an archived press packet from Walz’s congressional run, which notes the governor was part of “one of the first government sanctioned groups of American educators to teach in Chinese high schools.”Reports indicate that Walz stopped leading the student trips to China in 2003. In 2008, Walz reinstated Educational Travel Adventures in Nebraska – a year after taking office in Minnesota’s 1st Congressional District – after paying $235 worth of back taxes and interest, according to the Washington Free Beacon. After the Nebraska-based company was once again in good standing, Walz quickly moved to dissolve it.House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer (R-Ky.) raised concerns about Walz’s travel company last month, in a letter to FBI Director Christopher Wray. Comer demanded information from the FBI “about the Chinese entities and officials Governor Walz has engaged and partnered with” as well as any “warni...