[ninenot]

The attorney representing the Memphis pilot is from Milwaukee and maintains a practice here.

[grumple]

I wonder if the 12 jurors banded together to tell these legal paycheck-portion confiscators to stick the IRS tax code where the sun don't shine...

[Timm]

This isn't the first criminal tax-evasion trial the IRS has lost. Because of the complexity of the tax code, you might recall, the Congress some years ago redefined the crime of tax evasion to include the element of knowingly evading one's legal obligations. The prosecution must prove that the defendant knew or should have known that his tax non-payment was illegal. So juries need only be convinced that the defendant was reasonably mistaken about his legal obligations in order to acquit. The jury does not have to conclude, as the article suggests, that there is really no tax obligation.

We can see one of the major hurdles to prosecuting tax evasion in this case, too. As in many such cases, in this Memphis case the defendant has a long history of correspondence with the IRS. The correspondence has the defendant on the record over a long period of time saying she will pay any taxes the IRS can demonstrate she owes. The letters also provide evidence that defendant reasonably and sincerely believed she didn't owe any income tax, in part because the dispute as articulated in the letters will have been complicated and will have made reference to many arcance sections of the tax law. When faced with a long chain of letters like these, juries often are willing to believe that the defendant sincerely and non-crazily believed she did not owe any income tax.

As the article only suggests, but doesn't say, this person will certainly have to pay her taxes. The IRS will get the money, or as much of it as she's got, one way or the other. What the trial determined was only that this woman won't be convicted of a crime for her non-payment of tax.

[69ConvertibleFirebird]

If you ever had doubts about the mainstream media being controlled by the federal government, doubt no more.

The manistream media is liberal. That's why they won't mention that the IRS lost. The IRS is their God.

[EdReform]

BTTT

read later...

[MD_Willington_1976]

Don't worry the IRS owns the BATF (Tax stamps for NFA guns and such) they will just start harassing her about unregistered firearms, or plant an SBR at her residence etc..then she'll be up on weapons charges...or they'll send in their BATF squad and burn her and her residence to the ground....

[KarlInOhio]

It's on Boortz right now. (11:45 am EST)

[Quix]

GREAT NEWS.

SADLY, I don't think this will get us far until Jesus returns.

The theives will manipulate whatever legislatures and laws they need to in order to fleece us to destitution to fund their greed and power mongering . . .

Sigh.

[TEXOKIE]

bump for later

[churchillbuff]

why is everybody so focused on the IRS? They're just the designated bagmen for Congress and the President. It's Congress and the President who are responsible for the IRS Code.

[Tribune7]

ping

[WhiteGuy]

I think it's time for everyone reading this to send a very polite letter to the IRS, telling them they read about the case in Memphis, and is it true that there is no section in the U.S. Tax Code that requires an individual citizen to pay federal income taxes?

Don't be threatening in any way, or announce that you plan to stop paying federal income taxes. This request is for your personal edification, and you just simply want to know the truth.

Like Kuglin, you probably won't get an answer back, but just to prove you sent the letter and that they received it, be certain to send the letter via certified U.S. Mail, with a return receipt requested. When you get that receipt back, staple it to a copy of the letter you sent the IRS, and put it somewhere real secure, like a personal safe or bank deposit box.

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I think I'll do just that.

I might suggest finding your nearest local IRS office and send your letter there.

Better yet call the local number and actually get an agent's name.

Couldn't hurt?

[agitator]

The original FR posting on this event is here:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/961134/posts

[Squantos]

"To the press alone, checkered as it is with abuses, the world is indebted for all the triumphs which have been gained by reason and humanity over error and oppression." --James Madison

James clearly wasn't exposed to our current form of socialist presstitution ..........:o)

Stay Safe !

[Psalm118]

http://tinyurl.com/joae

[Do Be]

bump

[TEXOKIE]

bttt

[SteveH]

This is the Sixth District (6th District). I wonder if it can be used as case law precedent in other districts besides the 6th.

[Phaedrus]

bump

[tame]

Beautiful. Thanks for posting this!