Date: Wed, 29 Aug 2001 14:03:00 -0700
From: spooner@gbis.com (Rick Tompkins/Kathy Harrer)
Subject: [lpaz-repost] IRS Agrees to Meet Tax Honesty Movement
To: lpaz-repost@yahoogroups.com


(forwarded message, FYI)

Readiness Group:

We may be moving toward a resolution of the "income-tax issue."

Bob Schulz has headed a national effort involving the top people in the
tax-honesty movement to resolve major issues of the income-tax by inviting
government response at national meetings his organization, We the People
Foundation, has hosted at the National Press Club in Washington, DC. WTP has
also run full-page ads in the _Washington Times_ and _USA Today_. The ads
have attracted significant attention, but no answers to basic tax questions
from the intransigent IRS.

In July, Bob employed a new approach - a hunger strike. It has resulted in
an agreement, "brokered" by Rep. Roscoe Bartlett, by the IRS to meet and
answer question in late September. Tupper Saussy reports on the meeting
below ... but with an ominous twist (which starts at
www.tuppersaussy.com/GHOSTS.htm )

DLF

http://www.tuppersaussy.com/GHOSTS3.htm

IRS on trial

In July, 2000, We the People Foundation began placing a series of full-page
ads in USA TODAY containing highly provocative disclosures about federal
income tax law. Prominent in the ads was material from both Banister and
Kidd. Several ads ran, with considerable impact. On April 5, 2001, a Senat
Finance Committee hearing condemned the series. The following week, USA
TODAY announced its refusal to accept any more material from We the People
Foundation.

On the first day of July, WTP founder Bob Shultz began a hunger-strike he
declared would end in either his death or an assurance by competent
congressional and IRS officials that the foundation's questions would be
honestly and publicly answered. (Most of Shultz's friends advised him not to
attempt this feat. I called his home and left word commending him for
devising an inventive way of forcing an issue.)

Seventeen days into the fast, Rep. Roscoe Bartlett came to Shultz's rescue
and arranged with Justice Department officials for the showdown to be held
in Washington, DC, somewhere in the Capitol building.

For the first time in the income tax's 88-year history, responsible
government authorities have been placed in the position of being required to
field questions that penetrate to the very legitimacy of the tax code as
administered.

In Shultz's view, either the tax system is lawful or it isn't. He intends to
give no room for casuistry or wiggle. He has assembled a team of more than
40 talented paralegals, buttressed by practicing attorneys. The team appears
to be working around the clock to design questions as impossible of escape
as bear-traps.

The meeting promises to be so damaging to government's credibility that I
have a hard time visualizing its actually occurring.

What will IRS lawyers do when faced with Larken Rose's maddeningly simple
question which asks whether or not a taxpayers's taxable income from sources
within or without the United States is determined under the rules of
Sections 1.861-8 through 1.861-14T of the Code of Federal Regulations (CFR).

A "yes" will administratively acknowledge that many millions of American
citizens may, upon further study of the regulations and subsequent
generation of a little orthodox paperwork, wholly exclude themselves from
income taxation. A "no" will show official ignorance of 26 CFR section
1.863-1(c), which states The taxpayer's taxable income from sources within
or without the United States will be determined under the rules of sections
1.861-8 through 1.861-14T."

And there are dozens, hundreds, of other questions which, once the public
witnesses government's difficulty in answering them forthrightly, pose
significant hazards to the credibility of established politicians, media
dignitaries, lawyers, financial planners, and religious and tax
professionals.








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