From: Michael S. Lorrey (retroman@turbont.net)
Date: Sat Mar 11 2000 - 15:32:28 MST
T0Morrow@aol.com wrote:
>
> Greg Burch wrote:
>
> > I'm no tax lawyer (perhaps THAT is the lowest form of life) . . . .
>
> *I'm* no tax lawyer either, but I really must take exception to Greg's
> supposition. Tax lawyers provide a *very* valuable and commendable service
> by helping citizens to find the lowest legal tax possible. Granted, tax
> lawyers indirectly benefit from a complex and burdensome tax code. They do
> not cause it, however, and do much to help we victims of it to reduce its
> harms--and the tax revenue flowing to statists.
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
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