Tax Protestors

Are you still paying income tax? Didn't you hear that income doesn't include wages, or that the 16th Amendment was never ratified, or that none of the states are actually in the U.S., or that income isn't defined in the Internal Revenue Code? Or didn't you know that if you simply placed all of your assets into a Pure Trust that nobody could ever touch them or collect taxes on them, including the government? Well, if you didn't hear any of this, don't worry because it ain't true. What is true is that some scam artists have made good money selling these bogus theories before themselves ending up in jail.
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Anti-IRS Theories a/k/a Tax Protestor Junk

Recent Tax Protestor Cases

Tax Protestor Theories De-Bunked

Frivolous Filer Arguments

IRS: The Truth About Frivolous Tax Arguments (pdf)

IRS Codebusters Scam

Live presentation from the IRS regarding Tax Scams

Tax Protestor News and Articles

Fifth Circuit Affirms Simkanin Conviction Giving We-The-People Another Defeat.

• Exhibit: TAX PROTESTOR DUMMIES
  Driven by such geniuses as Bill Benson, Otto Skinner, Irwin Schiff, Thurston Bell, Lynne Meredith and others, a cottage industry of these well-educated and experienced professionals has been created to show you, the average taxpayer, how to fulfill your constitutional rights to peace and liberty and freedom from taxes. Especially the latter, and especially if you buy their books and tapes documenting their extensive research into all sorts of stuff, like how the 16th Amendment was never really ratified, or how everybody should really just ignore the courts and decide for themselves what the laws says (one advantage: you're always right). Did we fail to mention that none of these people have any formal legal education and many have convictions on a variety of crimes? Or that Lynne Meredith supposedly made over $6 million selling books and tapes on this stuff? (Ooops, Lynne got indicted and will probably die in prison, but that's us being nitpicky!)

• Exhibit: TAX PROTESTOR DUMMIES 2
  More court opinions and letters from the crazy tax protestors
  (also see our Quatlosers Exhibit)

• Exhibit: CONSTITUTIONAL TRUSTS A/K/A PURE TRUSTS
  Great things, so long as the IRS and your creditors agree to litigate issues arising from these trusts before a Posse Comitatus in a mobile home trailer somewhere. Otherwise, a voodoo spell would be more effective protection.

Must_Read - Summary of Abusive Trust Schemes

• Exhibit: BREAKING NEWS REGARDING TAX SCAMS
  Latest IRS releases, court opinions, and more!

Five Indicted For $14 Million Fraudulent Tax Preparation Scheme


Federal Court Bars Los Angeles Man From Promoting Tax Scams And Preparing Tax Returns For Others


Justice Department Seeks To Bar Former Jackson Hewitt Franchise Manager From Preparing Tax Returns
Civil Suit Alleges California Tax Firm Manager Prepared Returns Claiming False Tax Exemptions During 2005 Tax Filing Season

Federal Court Bars Arizona Tax Preparer
Prepared Fraudulent Returns Based on Michigan Man's Scheme

Salt Lake City Man Sentenced To 60 Months Prison For Role In Tax And Investment Fraud Scheme


• Exhibit: DR. SWEET AND THE JoY FOUNDATION
  U.S. Department of Justice press release about court order stopping Dr. Sweet and the JoY Foundation from marking bogus tax plans.

Articles

Paperwork Reduction Act Decision
Judge Egan's decision to dismiss Springer's complaint in Lindsey K. Springer v. U.S., the IRS and Commissioner of the IRS

Permanent Injunction Against Donald R. Bushnell

Dr. Tom Clayton -- 861 Goes Down In Flames Again
Houston Area Radiologist Indicted on Tax Charges

United States v. Rex Black
Pure Trust court opinion

Professional Tax Resister Sentenced to More Than 12 Years in Prison for Tax Fraud
Longtime tax protestor Irwin Schiff was sentenced in federal district court in Las Vegas to total of 163 months in prison—151 months for tax fraud and an additional 12 months for contempt of court

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