"Michael S. Lorrey" <retroman@turbont.net> wrote on Saturday, March 11, 2000
5:32 PM,
> 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), and ask the
> judge if he expects an average citizen to understand this law in whole.
> Its really great when you use some passages of the tax code which are
> 50% cross references to other regulations and codes, with lots of if,
> ands/ors, etc... Let the judge try to read these passages and ask him if
> he understands what it means. Such cases are dismissed at this point.
>
> Mike Lorrey
> Mike,
Can you cite any cases where this has actually happened? Or is this an
urban ledgend from a "friend of a friend..."?
-- Harvey Newstrom <http://HarveyNewstrom.com> Certified Consultant, Legal Hacker, Engineer, Research Scientist, Author.
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