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 [...]
Tags: Absurd Tax Protester Arguments · Tax Crimes
“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 [...]
Tags: Absurd Tax Protester Arguments · Opinion
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 [...]
Tags: Absurd Tax Protester Arguments · Employer Issues
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 [...]
Tags: Absurd Tax Protester Arguments · Tax Crimes
This example of tax protester wackzoidery is based on the argument that IRS Form 1040 is an illegal tax form because it doesn’t contain a control number as required by The Paperwork Reduction Act (the “Act”).
Here’s how it goes:
In Section 3512 of [the Act], titled “Public Protection,” it says that no person shall be subject to any penalty [...]
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More of a tactic than an argument, authentic frontier gibberish (AGB) is used by conspiracy theorists, tax protesters and true believers of all sizes and stripes.
AFG is based on the idea that if people don’t understand you they will assume you know more than they do.
And rather than do the hard work of researching the matter for [...]
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United States Constitution
Amendment XIII
Section 1.
Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction.
One of the more wacky (and common) tax protester arguments is the one where it is claimed that the [...]
Wall Street Journal – Taxes Blog
