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		<title>Tax Scam Promoter Gets 7 Years</title>
		<link>http://www.pappasontaxes.com/index.php/2011/11/21/tax-scam-promoter-gets-7-years/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Nov 2011 14:20:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[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 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Hambone Says Taxes are Illegal</title>
		<link>http://www.pappasontaxes.com/index.php/2011/09/19/hambone-says-taxes-are-illegal/</link>
		<comments>http://www.pappasontaxes.com/index.php/2011/09/19/hambone-says-taxes-are-illegal/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Sep 2011 21:47:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[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&#8217;t help myself from watching the Democratic National Convention every four years.¹ I assume you [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Tax Protesters Tilt at Windmills: Title 26 Was Never Enacted Therefore the IRS Lacks the Authority to Collect Taxes</title>
		<link>http://www.pappasontaxes.com/index.php/2011/09/16/tax-protesters-tilt-at-windmills-title-26-was-never-enacted-therefore-the-irs-lacks-the-authority-to-collect-taxes/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Sep 2011 19:05:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[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 &#8211; we&#8217;ll call him Don Quixote - frames the argument thusly: The IRS calls everyone who doesn&#8217;t fall in lock step with their lies a &#8220;tax denier&#8221; and every argument &#8220;frivolous.&#8221; [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Tax Sucker Born Every Minute</title>
		<link>http://www.pappasontaxes.com/index.php/2011/09/14/a-tax-sucker-is-born-every-minute/</link>
		<comments>http://www.pappasontaxes.com/index.php/2011/09/14/a-tax-sucker-is-born-every-minute/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Sep 2011 13:42:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Joe Kristan gives us the scoop on another case of absurd tax protester shenanigans (emphasis is mine): A pair of &#8220;professional astrologers&#8221; in California was enjoined last week from setting up sham trusts to conceal taxable income. That stuff doesn&#8217;t work, of course, but I liked this wrinkle: The pair is accused of having clients sign [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Joe Kristan: Why the Tax Court Doesn&#8217;t Refute Frivolous Arguments</title>
		<link>http://www.pappasontaxes.com/index.php/2011/06/02/joe-kristan-on-why-the-tax-court-doesnt-refute-frivolous-arguments/</link>
		<comments>http://www.pappasontaxes.com/index.php/2011/06/02/joe-kristan-on-why-the-tax-court-doesnt-refute-frivolous-arguments/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Jun 2011 12:39:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Joe Kristan tells us why the Tax Court often doesn&#8217;t publish detailed opinions refuting frivolous tax protester arguments: Usually the Tax Court issues a &#8220;reported&#8221; 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 &#8220;Why we usually decline [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Dialogues with Tax Protesters</title>
		<link>http://www.pappasontaxes.com/index.php/2011/03/10/dialogues-with-tax-protesters/</link>
		<comments>http://www.pappasontaxes.com/index.php/2011/03/10/dialogues-with-tax-protesters/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Mar 2011 17:11:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[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 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Frivolous Tax Arguments 2011 Edition</title>
		<link>http://www.pappasontaxes.com/index.php/2011/03/04/frivolous-tax-arguments-2011-edition/</link>
		<comments>http://www.pappasontaxes.com/index.php/2011/03/04/frivolous-tax-arguments-2011-edition/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Mar 2011 22:20:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The IRS has issued it&#8217;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 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Wacko Tax Protester Says She&#8217;s Ain&#8217;t No Slave and Doesn&#8217;t Have to File Tax Returns</title>
		<link>http://www.pappasontaxes.com/index.php/2010/11/07/wacko-tax-protester-says-shes-no-slave-and-therefore-doesnt-have-to-file-tax-returns/</link>
		<comments>http://www.pappasontaxes.com/index.php/2010/11/07/wacko-tax-protester-says-shes-no-slave-and-therefore-doesnt-have-to-file-tax-returns/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 07 Nov 2010 17:31:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[When did they start issuing surnames based on the number of brain cells one has in their head? If you want to understand just how irrational and intellectually dishonest tax protesters are you have to watch tax protester Michele Seven&#8217;s incoherent rant against paying taxes in its entirety. This sad and sorry woman starts by saying that she merely forgot to file her tax returns because she [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Wesley Snipes in Complete Denial</title>
		<link>http://www.pappasontaxes.com/index.php/2010/11/06/wesley-snipes-in-complete-denial/</link>
		<comments>http://www.pappasontaxes.com/index.php/2010/11/06/wesley-snipes-in-complete-denial/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 06 Nov 2010 20:44:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Dr. Frankenstein: &#8220;You know, I&#8217;m a rather brilliant surgeon. Perhaps I can help you with that hump. Igor: &#8220;What hump?&#8221; Wesley Snipes still doesn&#8217;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 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Absurd Tax Protester Stopped from Preparing Tax Returns</title>
		<link>http://www.pappasontaxes.com/index.php/2010/08/16/absurd-tax-protester-permanently-barred-from-tax-preparation/</link>
		<comments>http://www.pappasontaxes.com/index.php/2010/08/16/absurd-tax-protester-permanently-barred-from-tax-preparation/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Aug 2010 19:12:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[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 $200 million n tax refunds based on false representations of tax withholdings. The court noted [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Secret Aramaic Message in Tax Code?</title>
		<link>http://www.pappasontaxes.com/index.php/2010/06/21/secret-aramaic-message-in-tax-code/</link>
		<comments>http://www.pappasontaxes.com/index.php/2010/06/21/secret-aramaic-message-in-tax-code/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Jun 2010 17:41:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last week I received this interesting letter from a reader named Kenneth Snipps: June 14, 2010 Pappas &#38; Associates 930 Woodcock Rd Suite 227 Orlando, FL 32803 Dear Sir or Madam, My name is Kenneth and I need your help regarding a tax matter Several months ago my neighbor Mr. Biggs told me there are hidden [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Absurd Tax Protester Argument: &#8220;I Didn&#8217;t Know the Symbol &#8220;$&#8221; Meant Money&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://www.pappasontaxes.com/index.php/2010/05/27/absurd-tax-protester-argument-i-didnt-know-the-symbol-meant-money/</link>
		<comments>http://www.pappasontaxes.com/index.php/2010/05/27/absurd-tax-protester-argument-i-didnt-know-the-symbol-meant-money/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 27 May 2010 20:54:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[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 $300,000 in income by claiming he didn&#8217;t know what the &#8220;$&#8221; symbol meant.¹ Sam Ellis, appearing [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Characteristics of Extreme Anti-IRS Wackos</title>
		<link>http://www.pappasontaxes.com/index.php/2010/03/14/charateristics-of-extreme-anti-irs-wackos/</link>
		<comments>http://www.pappasontaxes.com/index.php/2010/03/14/charateristics-of-extreme-anti-irs-wackos/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 14 Mar 2010 14:37:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[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 &#8211; even worse than the Islamofascist true believers formerly hunkered down in the caves of Damadola. But as disturbing as it is, I really can&#8217;t say I&#8217;m [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Deconstructing a Tax Wacko</title>
		<link>http://www.pappasontaxes.com/index.php/2010/02/23/deconstructing-a-tax-wacko/</link>
		<comments>http://www.pappasontaxes.com/index.php/2010/02/23/deconstructing-a-tax-wacko/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Feb 2010 15:11:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;We all have private ails. The troublemakers are they who need public cures for their private ails.&#8221; - 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 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Tax Bomber Stack Wanted Independent Contractor Status to Avoid Paying Taxes</title>
		<link>http://www.pappasontaxes.com/index.php/2010/02/21/tax-bomber-stack-wanted-independent-contractor-status-to-avoid-paying-taxes/</link>
		<comments>http://www.pappasontaxes.com/index.php/2010/02/21/tax-bomber-stack-wanted-independent-contractor-status-to-avoid-paying-taxes/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 21 Feb 2010 13:36:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[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 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Absurd Tax Protester Arguments &#8211; Volume 9 &#8211; Lower Case Letters</title>
		<link>http://www.pappasontaxes.com/index.php/2009/12/16/absurd-tax-protester-arguments-volume-9-lower-case-letters/</link>
		<comments>http://www.pappasontaxes.com/index.php/2009/12/16/absurd-tax-protester-arguments-volume-9-lower-case-letters/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Dec 2009 04:12:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[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 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>7 Mentally Challenged Tax Protester Arguments</title>
		<link>http://www.pappasontaxes.com/index.php/2009/08/24/7-mentally-challenged-tax-protester-arguments/</link>
		<comments>http://www.pappasontaxes.com/index.php/2009/08/24/7-mentally-challenged-tax-protester-arguments/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 24 Aug 2009 14:55:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Cracked.com has a hilarious post titled 7 Retarded Tax Evasion Schemes. Read them all, but my favorite is &#8220;The Spelling and Punctuation Count Argument.&#8221; Here&#8217;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 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Absurd Tax Protester Argument &#8211; Volume 8 &#8211; Untaxing Yourself</title>
		<link>http://www.pappasontaxes.com/index.php/2009/07/15/absurd-tax-protester-argument-volume-8-untaxing-yourself/</link>
		<comments>http://www.pappasontaxes.com/index.php/2009/07/15/absurd-tax-protester-argument-volume-8-untaxing-yourself/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 15 Jul 2009 04:54:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This one&#8217;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&#8217;ll never know) that he is willing to share [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Tiller&#8217;s Killer also a Tax Protester</title>
		<link>http://www.pappasontaxes.com/index.php/2009/06/07/tillers-killer-also-a-tax-protester/</link>
		<comments>http://www.pappasontaxes.com/index.php/2009/06/07/tillers-killer-also-a-tax-protester/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 07 Jun 2009 20:45:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[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, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Volume # 7 &#8211; Absurd Tax Protestor Arguments &#8211; Paperwork Reduction Act</title>
		<link>http://www.pappasontaxes.com/index.php/2009/05/11/volume-7-absurd-tax-protestor-arguments-paperwork-reduction-act/</link>
		<comments>http://www.pappasontaxes.com/index.php/2009/05/11/volume-7-absurd-tax-protestor-arguments-paperwork-reduction-act/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 11 May 2009 04:23:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This example of tax protester wackzoidery is based on the argument that IRS Form 1040 is an illegal tax form because it doesn&#8217;t contain a control number as required by The Paperwork Reduction Act (the &#8220;Act&#8221;). Here&#8217;s how it goes: In Section 3512 of [the Act], titled &#8220;Public Protection,&#8221; it says that no person shall be subject to [...]]]></description>
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