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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 that [...]

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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 messages embedded within the tax code that, when [...]

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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 for the Inland [...]

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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 surprised that [...]

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“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 the gamut of [...]

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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 passed [...]

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To create the right atmosphere play the video below as you read the words of one RANDY LEE OLIVER who contends that because the federal government did not use the proper combination of upper and lower case letters when publishing his name that he is exempt from compliance with federal tax law:

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT
CENTRAL DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA
HONORABLE [...]

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Cracked.com has a hilarious post titled 7 Retarded Tax Evasion Schemes.
Read them all, but my favorite is “The Spelling and Punctuation Count Argument.”
Here’s a sampling:
[N]umerous people have argued that JOHN DOE is an entirely different entity from John Doe.
Similarly, people have ignored correspondence without their preferred, unorthodox punctuation as being addressed to the wrong person, [...]

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This one’s a real trip.
Sellers of this bottle of magical elixer claim that there is a legal way for taxpayers to take themselves off the taxpayer rolls and never pay taxes again.
The promoter explains that he is the holder of a special secret (how he became privy to it, we’ll never know) that he is willing to share for a [...]

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I wonder what percentage of fanatical anti-abortion activists are also tax protesters?
My guess is its much greater than the national average.
But why?
Scott P. Roeder is being held without bail on first degree murder charges for shooting to death abortion doctor George Tiller.
According to Little Green Footballs (LGF), prior to his career as an anti-abortion crusader, Mr. Roeder was a [...]

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