Bottom line is the Gubmnt couldn't prove that the Income Tax system is a requirement by law.
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So while the government couldn't prove Bannister prepared false returns, they most certainly proved their case about income tax being required by law, and convicted his clients. Big difference between being the preparer, and the person who actually is required to withhold or pay the tax. I find it amusing that Bannister is well known to pay his own income tax, despite telling his clients they are not required to do so.. . . a federal jury in Sacramento acquitted a former Internal Revenue Service investigator on charges of helping to prepare false tax returns.
The former investigator, Joseph R. Banister, 42, of San Jose, Calif., has become a hero to the tax protest movement, even though two of his clients are serving long prison sentences after following his advice.
Mr. Banister was acquitted on charges of conspiracy and helping to prepare three false tax returns for a small California manufacturer. . .
. . . The jury verdict appeared to reflect the different way criminal tax laws apply to taxpayers and to professional advisers who promote tax cheating, said Jay Adkisson, a tax lawyer in Laguna Nigel, Calif., who tracks tax protesters at the Web site quatloos.com.
"It is hard to convict promoters," Mr. Adkisson said. "Promoters make a lot of money off their marks, watch their marks go to jail for not paying taxes and then take advantage of a loophole that lets them prepare bogus returns that they characterize as protest returns" prepared at the direction of the client.
Mr. Banister was not charged with any failure to pay taxes. . .
. . . Mr. Thompson, who was convicted in January, is serving six years for failure to withhold and turn over taxes from paychecks of workers at his Cencal Aviation Products in Lake Shasta, Calif. . .
The government sure proved it's case about income tax to that jury.United States Attorney McGregor W. Scott and IRS Criminal Investigation Special Agent in Charge Roger L. Wirth announced today that WALTER A. THOMPSON, 58, of Redding, California, was sentenced this morning by the Honorable William B. Shubb, United States District Judge, to imprisonment for 72 months. THOMPSON was convicted of thirteen criminal tax charges with a tax loss of approximately $256,000 on January 28, 2005 after a two-week jury trial.
This case is the product of an extensive investigation by Special Agents of Criminal Investigation, Internal Revenue Service. The jury convicted THOMPSON of two counts of filing false claims for refunds on his individual tax returns for 1996 and 1997, filing a false amended individual income tax return for 1998 and ten counts of willfully failing to deduct, withhold, collect and pay over income and social security taxes from his employees at Cen Cal Sales, in violation of Title 18, United States Code, Section 287 and Title 26, United States Code, Sections 7206(1) and 7202.
You realize Bannister was NOT charged with evading income taxes, but rather he was charged with preparing fraudulent returns for his clients. Ergo, the question of Bannister's requirement to pay taxes is irrelevant to this case. I have serious doubts that the above quote is anything close to an accurate depiction of Gorini's questioning and testimony.During the trial, Banister's former supervisor at IRS’s San Jose CID office, Robert Gorini (who testified via video recording) when pointedly asked, was unable to cite any U.S. law that required Banister to pay income taxes.
He testified via video recording? What a coward.IRS’s San Jose CID office, Robert Gorini (who testified via video recording)
So if you want to buy into this crap sack up and stop paying your taxes, but at least be a man about it and call a press conference explaining your reasons, and challenging the government to prove it's case.
Yet, you expect people to take your comments seriously.. . . It doesn't exist . . .
Yeah, you're right it's impossible to get a fair trial, which is why Bannister got convicted . . . Oh wait, that's right Bannister got a fair trial and got acquitted. So I guess your little conspiracy theory about the feds not giving people a fair shake is just as much BS as the idea that income tax isn't in the US Code.Now, if you believe that, why on earth would you trust them to give you a fair trial over the matter?
Imagine that, fed.gov lied and/or obfuscated...just like you. Was that covered in the KSAs for your job interview?THE POWER TO DESTROY
Tax activist ends
hunger strike
DOJ, Congress agree to public hearing of challenge to IRS authority
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A tax activist ended a three-week hunger strike yesterday after Department of Justice and congressional officials committed to a public hearing on the authority of the IRS and the enforcement of U.S. income tax laws against U.S. citizens.
On July 1, Bob Schulz, chairman of "We the People Foundation for Constitutional Education," and Oklahoma businessman Roland Croteau vowed to abstain from food until the IRS produced a list of government officials that would meet this fall in a public forum to discuss their theories on taxation.