Tax Deniers
Eddie Kahn +4 other ARL employees indicted!
Thursday, September 11th, 2008FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Wednesday, September 10, 2008
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Five Promoters of Tax Defiance Scheme Indicted for Tax Fraud
WASHINGTON- Five promoters of Florida-based tax defier organization, American Rights Litigators/Guiding Light of God Ministries (ARL), were charged with selling worthless “bills of exchange” and promoting other schemes to orchestrate tax fraud, according to an indictment which was unsealed today, the [...]
Voluntary Compliance
Tuesday, February 5th, 2008KCUF Media wrote:
The IRS line about “voluntary compliance” is a blatant lie.
The “voluntary compliance” rhetoric from the IRS is weaselly at best, and deserves to be thrown out of court on that basis, at the very least.
Sigh. Considering the IRS, Congress, the Department of Justice, the Treasury, and who knows how many journalists over the [...]
Changing the “willful failure to file” tax returns law
Monday, February 4th, 2008Good Guy wrote:
I’m glad those scum promoters got convicted on the felony counts. It’s now time for congress to set a dollar amount for elevation of failure to file as a felony. What this verdict says is “if you are going to owe millions in taxes, don’t file- it’s just a misdemeanor.” That’s plain obscene. [...]
The verdict is in
Friday, February 1st, 2008Bad day for Rosile and Kahn. Relatively good day for Snipes, considering what it could have been.
Rosile and Kahn were both convicted on two felony counts (conspiracy to defraud the government, and aiding in the filing of Snipes’ false refund return.) Snipes was convicted on three misdemeanor counts (willful failure to file tax returns) and acquitted [...]
Snipes’ December 2006 letter to the government
Thursday, January 31st, 2008Months after he was criminally indicted, Snipes sent a lengthy, and at times nasty, letter to the IRS and the federal prosecutor assigned to his case.
The entire letter – minus the 600 pages of attachments, of course – can be read here.
Sad, and ugly stuff.
The jury has now ended two full days of deliberation, and [...]
A glimpse into the mad, mad world of tax deniers
Sunday, January 27th, 2008“Some people believe with great fervor preposterous things that just happen to coincide with their self-interest.” Coleman v. Commissioner, 791 F.2d 68, 69 (7th Cir. 1986).
A whirlwind of goofy sounding theories has plagued the Wesley Snipes criminal trial for the past couple of weeks, appearing in both the evidence being admitted, and among the tax denier [...]
Has Snipes been singled out?
Saturday, January 26th, 2008It’s an interesting group of people sitting in the audience during the trial. Reporters, people who didn’t make it on the jury but are curious about the case, one juror’s spouse, supporters and family members for the defendants, tax protesters, government employees, and so on. For the most part, it’s a very polite and sociable [...]
Day 9: January 25 – No two-bit actors here…
Saturday, January 26th, 2008Today was all about money. A whole lot of money. Buckets of it. Take all-of-the-money-made-by-all-16-jurors-and-multiply-by-10 kind of money.
Government Witness: Steward Stich has been an IRS Revenue Agent for 36 ½ years and his role in the trial was to present the summary of his research into how much Snipes earned in gross income from 1999 [...]
Day 8: January 24 – You have the right to remain silent. Use it.
Thursday, January 24th, 2008Threatening prosecutors is a really bad idea.
Ranting and raving (and admitting to at least one felony count) in writing to a federal prosecutor while threatening the US government is just not cool, especially after you’ve already been indicted and are awaiting your criminal trial.
At least Thursday morning wasn’t boring in the courtroom.
But first…
Government Witness: Michael [...]
Day 7: January 23: “Dear Mr. Kahn…”
Thursday, January 24th, 2008The prosecution continued questioning Special Agent Lalli for half of the day and the poor Jury was subjected to IRS form letters, Powers of Attorney forms, billing statements showing Snipes paying Kahn for his services, and hundreds of pages of incomprehensible tax protester forms and documents.
One interesting document showed 232 Kahn clients trying to obtain [...]
Tax denier “docu-drama” about the Snipes trial
Sunday, January 20th, 2008While the person or group who produced this fictional movie is unknown, I originally found it on Youtube.com several months ago posted by a tax denier group called the American Patriot Friends Network (APFN). It was removed by the YouTube within a short time period, but I found the movie again recently on the APFN [...]
Opening Statements and the first few witnesses
Wednesday, January 16th, 2008Today’s opening statements offered few surprises.
US Prosecutor Robert E. O’Neill walked the jury through the timeline of events and Snipes’ income statements and asked the jury to rely on their common sense. The presentation was short and to the point.
Snipes’ lawyers outlined a four part defense:
They claim Snipes didn’t live in Florida between the years [...]
What is Snipes’ defense?
Monday, January 14th, 2008The clues provided by Snipes’ defense counsel have been consistent:
“He did what every other American is entitled to,” Bernhoft said. “He asked the IRS for information. Asking questions is not a crime, even if the IRS would like it to be.”
and
The 45-year-old action star, who faces a trial Monday on tax fraud and conspiracy charges, [...]
What is a “bill of exchange”?
Friday, January 11th, 2008According to court documents, on November 30, 2000, Wesley Snipes sent a $1,000,000 “bill of exchange” to the US Treasury along with an IRS payment coupon. He sent another $12,000,000 BOE on January 19, 2001, and a final $1,000,000 on September 10, 2002.
Simply put, a bill of exchange is a check, just like the ones [...]
Not your typical celebrity tax trial
Tuesday, January 8th, 2008Nobody likes to pay taxes.
Just about everyone complains, several people cheat, a tiny minority even practices civil disobedience by simply refusing to pay, willing to risk prison rather than having their money fund things like the war in Iraq.
One rapidly expanding group goes a whole lot further – they deny that taxes exist at all. [...]