Re: Tax Lawyers (was Re: ECON: Eliezer's calls (barter))

From: Anton Sherwood (bronto@pobox.com)
Date: Sat Mar 11 2000 - 19:16:32 MST


> "Michael S. Lorrey" <retroman@turbont.net> wrote
> > One of the strategies that I know works in tax court when you get nabbed
> > for not paying taxes: You are not obligated to obey a law you or an
> > average citizen cannot understand. Simply cart in a whole copy of the
> > tax code (somewhere in the tens of thousands of pages), [...]

Harvey Newstrom wrote:
> Can you cite any cases where this has actually happened?
> Or is this an urban ledgend from a "friend of a friend..."?

Or alternatively, cite case law for the underlying proposition that
incomprehensibility is an excuse?

Part of the problem with the IRS is that disputes rarely get out of IRS
"administrative courts" into real courts.

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