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Articles in category 'Absurd Tax Protester Arguments'
Tax Protester Cindy Sheehan Exploits Son’s Death to Avoid Paying Taxes
“Bush’s main goal is to kill as many servicemen as possible.” – Cindy Sheehan – “My son was killed in 2004. I am not paying my taxes for 2004. You killed my son, George Bush, and I don’t owe you a penny…you give my son back and I’ll pay my taxes. Come after me (for…
Read Full Article Categorized in: Absurd Tax Protester Arguments, NewsTax Scam Promoter Gets 7 Years
Sharon D. Kukhahn, 62, of Tacoma, Wash., was sentenced Wednesday in a federal court in Tacoma, Washington to seven years in jail, three years of supervised release, and $856,681 in restitution after being convicted of conspiracy, four counts of tax evasion and corrupt interference with Internal Revenue law. WebCPA has the story: Kukhahn was convicted…
Read Full Article Categorized in: Absurd Tax Protester Arguments, News, Tax CrimesHambone Says Taxes are Illegal
From time to time I peruse the myriad videos on YouTube of tax protesters making preposterous arguments as to why the federal income tax is illegal. After all, I am human and not above gawking at a freak show every now and then. I also can’t help myself from watching the Democratic National Convention every four years.¹ I assume you…
Read Full Article Categorized in: Absurd Tax Protester Arguments, News, Tax HumorTax Protesters Tilt at Windmills: Title 26 Was Never Enacted Therefore the IRS Lacks the Authority to Collect Taxes
I have been harangued recently by a couple of my readers about a very old tax protester argument that they claim has never been refuted. Reader Chad – we’ll call him Don Quixote - frames the argument thusly: The IRS calls everyone who doesn’t fall in lock step with their lies a “tax denier” and every argument “frivolous.”…
Read Full Article Categorized in: Absurd Tax Protester Arguments, Tax HumorA Tax Sucker Born Every Minute
Joe Kristan gives us the scoop on another case of absurd tax protester shenanigans (emphasis is mine): A pair of “professional astrologers” in California was enjoined last week from setting up sham trusts to conceal taxable income. That stuff doesn’t work, of course, but I liked this wrinkle: The pair is accused of having clients sign…
Read Full Article Categorized in: Absurd Tax Protester Arguments, Tax CrimesJoe Kristan: Why the Tax Court Doesn’t Refute Frivolous Arguments
Joe Kristan tells us why the Tax Court often doesn’t publish detailed opinions refuting frivolous tax protester arguments: Usually the Tax Court issues a “reported” opinion when it either is addressing a new issue or it wants to send a message. Yesterday they sent a message with an reported opinion explaining “Why we usually decline…
Read Full Article Categorized in: Absurd Tax Protester Arguments, Court CasesDialogues with Tax Protesters
I recently received a barage of vulgar and threatening comments from several unhinged tax protesters (these folks have serious anger problems) about my contention that people who argue that the federal income tax is a form of slavery are a couple of ants short of a picnic. If I published these frenzied screeds, it would conclusively prove my point…
Read Full Article Categorized in: Absurd Tax Protester ArgumentsFrivolous Tax Arguments 2011 Edition
The IRS has issued it’s annual list of frivolous tax arguments at IR-2011-21. Below is the table of contents, courtesy of Paul Caron. The links are to blog posts I have written as part of my Absurd Tax Protester Arguments series. The Voluntary Nature of the Federal Income Tax System Contention: The filing of a tax return is voluntary…
Read Full Article Categorized in: Absurd Tax Protester ArgumentsWesley Snipes in Complete Denial
Dr. Frankenstein: “You know, I’m a rather brilliant surgeon. Perhaps I can help you with that hump. Igor: “What hump?” Wesley Snipes still doesn’t think he did anything wrong. As you listen to this buffoon wax incredulous that government prosecutors chose to target his little old insignificant self remember that the tax loss to the IRS in…
Read Full Article Categorized in: Absurd Tax Protester Arguments, Tax CrimesAbsurd Tax Protester Stopped from Preparing Tax Returns
Tax News reports that a federal judge has permanently barred Thanh Viet Jeremy Cao and his business, Phoenix Financial Management Group, from preparing federal tax returns: The court found that Cao prepared numerous federal tax returns claiming a total of over $200 million n tax refunds based on false representations of tax withholdings. The court noted…
Read Full Article Categorized in: Absurd Tax Protester Arguments, News, Regulation of Tax Preparers, Tax CrimesSecret Aramaic Message in Tax Code?
Last week I received this interesting letter from a reader named Kenneth Snipps: June 14, 2010 Pappas & Associates 930 Woodcock Rd Suite 227 Orlando, FL 32803 Dear Sir or Madam, My name is Kenneth and I need your help regarding a tax matter Several months ago my neighbor Mr. Biggs told me there are hidden…
Read Full Article Categorized in: Absurd Tax Protester Arguments, Tax HumorAbsurd Tax Protester Argument: “I Didn’t Know the Symbol “$” Meant Money”
I thought I had encountred all of the absurd tax protester arguments known to man, but Paul Caron has stumbled upon a new one (emphasis and footnotes are mine): From Business Day: Stephen Blackman tried explaining his failure to disclose more than $300,000 in income by claiming he didn’t know what the “$” symbol meant.¹ Sam Ellis, appearing…
Read Full Article Categorized in: Absurd Tax Protester Arguments, Tax CrimesCharacteristics of Extreme Anti-IRS Wackos
I am no fan of big government and inefficient bureacracy, but I loath to the core anti-government maniacs who would do harm to federal employees. They are terrorists of the worst kind – even worse than the Islamofascist true believers formerly hunkered down in the caves of Damadola. But as disturbing as it is, I really can’t say I’m…
Read Full Article Categorized in: Absurd Tax Protester Arguments, Tax CrimesDeconstructing a Tax Wacko
“We all have private ails. The troublemakers are they who need public cures for their private ails.” – Eric Hoffer - I try not to parry with the paranoid, but in this case I will make an exception just to show how wackozoid tax protesters can be. Over the years I have been confronted by several dozen tax protesters peddling…
Read Full Article Categorized in: Absurd Tax Protester Arguments, OpinionTax Bomber Stack Wanted Independent Contractor Status to Avoid Paying Taxes
Enacted in 1978, §530 is a safe harbor law that lists several conditions which if met allows workers to be treated as independent contractors rather than employees. Joe Stack was compelled to burn his house down murder with his wife and children in it and fly his plane into the side of a federal building because 24 years ago Congress…
Read Full Article Categorized in: Absurd Tax Protester Arguments, Employer Issues