Posted on 08/16/2003 7:37:24 PM PDT by webber
By Carl F. Worden
Forget the war in Iraq, Afghanistan and our excellent adventure in Liberia. Forget about Kobe, Arnold, Arriana, Scott and Laci. The biggest news of the entire week is that on August 8, 2003, the IRS was unable to convince a jury in Memphis, Tennessee that the Federal Tax Code requires the citizens to pay individual income taxes. I kid you not.
I watched as many Sunday news programs as I could possibly stand, and I didn't hear a single mention of the IRS' debacle in Memphis. If you ever had doubts about the mainstream media being controlled by the federal government, doubt no more.
For those not already aware, FedEx Pilot Vernice Kuglin began studying the IRS Code some years ago, and was simply unable to find anywhere in the code that she was required to pay federal income taxes.
And here's the most remarkable part: Back in 1995, Kuglin wrote letters in good faith to the IRS, asking them to show her where the Tax Code requires individual citizens to pay federal income taxes. Incredibly, the IRS never answered a single one of her letters!
As she studied the facts, laws and related documents more, Kuglin became convinced that, regardless of the IRS' failure to respond one way or the other, she was exempt from paying federal income taxes. So, Kuglin filled out W-4 forms showing 99 exemptions, and turned them in to her employer. Doing that meant Kuglin got to take home almost all of her paycheck each payday, instead of what was left after the feds ravaged it.
The IRS went after Kuglin for six counts of tax evasion on $920,000.00 income, and for filing "false" W-4 forms, charges that could have put the 58 year-old Kuglin in federal prison for up to 30 years and cost her 1.5 million in fines.
Apparently, things didn't go quite the slam-dunk way federal prosecutor Joe Murphy thought they would. My money says the IRS wishes they had never gone after Kuglin at all. In fact, after the jury returned not guilty verdicts on all counts, Murphy is reported to have demanded that the judge order Kuglin to file her forms, pay her taxes and "obey the law". The judge reportedly replied, "Sir, I don't work for the IRS."
Now pinch yourself and review this astonishing turn of events: A highly trained and educated federal prosecutor in Memphis was unable to convince 12 American citizens that Vernice Kuglin was required to pay federal income taxes.
He was clearly unable to produce a single section of the Tax Code to that end, and the jury was unanimous in clearing Kuglin of all charges against her. If the foregoing was not so, Kuglin would have been convicted.
Jurors tend not to be very sympathetic with tax scofflaws, since each one of them is also a taxpayer and they understandably feel resentment towards anyone not paying "their fair share". So in order for this federal jury to completely vindicate Kuglin, the government's failure to prove their case against her had to have been clear and unequivocal!
I haven't read the trial transcript yet, but I must assume the federal prosecutor at least tried to twist some vague and ambiguous section of the Tax Code to make it look like it applied to Kuglin. I don't know that, but I'll bet he tried.
What else could he use to prosecute her with "Thanks to the IRS" arrogance and stupidity, and Kuglin's refusal to plead to lesser charges, Kuglin accomplished what Bob Schultz and the other "tax protesters" had been denied all along: To force the IRS into a public debate and to answer the question of whether or not the Tax Code requires an individual to pay personal income taxes. Kuglin and her two attorneys, Larry Becraft and Robert Bernhoft, have unequivocally forced the IRS to show its hand, and 12 judges hearing that debate ruled the answer to be "NO".
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.
I don't have to explain why, now do I?
Carl F. Worden
The Sierra Times
If this turns out to be another one of those "Gotcha" Fairy Tales, please don't let me know. I want to believe that this news is true. PLEASE?
The problem is not the law, it's the belief that we understand the law without ever reading what it actually says.
Most people have never once tried to read and understand how the tax law is written and the multitude of terms that have legal defintions. The united states is written 3 different ways and it means three totally different jurisdictions.
They only know what the irs publishes and many of the publications are misleading if you don't know who they actually apply to, you automatically assume they apply to you, even though the tax laws apply to corporations, partnerships, trusts, foreign sales corporations,and so on. We automatically assume it means us. Just the word individual, could mean and individual business.
Which law?
It ought to be rescinded and replaced with a flat tax or national sales tax.
This is exactly why no one knows what is really going on. They would rather the IRS steal everything they own then dare to question their authority to do a dang thing to anyone. The IRS is suppose to be a servant to the people.
A nation of cowards.
There is a few letter writing campaigns going on asking the IRS for the law that applies to a Citizen of the United States working and living in the United States.
anyone who might feel like sending a letter or just reading the letters that have been sent, email me and I will send you to a website.
Oh and don't worry, the IRS will never send you a reply, Nor will your congress critters, they just send some sorry form letter, because you are the people, and you don't deserve an answer.
They haven't answered but a few of the thousands that have been sent and never once answering the question.
That's because most people don't live long enough. You got any idea how long that thing is? And how obnoxiously difficult to understand? Even the IRS's people don't have the comprehensive abilities and time to read and understand the whole thing.
Ain't that the truth!
Not if they received 500,000 of them.
ANSWER: THE IRS CAN (AND PROBABLY HAS ALREADY) ATTACHED A TAX LIEN AGAINST ALL HER ASSETS, MEANING SHE CANNOT SELL ANY ASSET WITHOUT PAYING EVERY CENT TOWARD THE OWED TAXES. THEY ALSO CAN AND WILL LEVY AGAINST HER BANK ACCOUNTS, CAR, PERSONAL PROPERTY ABOVE $1000, GARNISH WAGES FROM FEDEX, AND ON AND ON.
AND, YES, THIS IS COMPLETELY OUTSIDE THE JURISDICTION OF THE COURTS.
THIS WOMAN WILL BE DESTROYED FINANCIALLY.
NO. CHAPTER 7 CANNOT ELIMINATE ANY FEDERAL OR STATE TAXES IF THE FILING OF TAX LIEN PRECEEDED THE FILING OF BANKRUPTCY.
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