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From: ark@alice.UucP (Andrew Koenig)
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Subject: Re: IRS (was: bad signatures on checks)
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Date: Thu, 17-Jul-86 10:42:37 EDT
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> I've heard this view expressed before, in net.taxes (which group
> I've now added to this discussion).  I admit I don't know that much
> about the U.S. tax system, but I still find it hard to believe.
> Americans are the most litigious people on earth, and you have
> a solid constitutional framework which can be, and is, used to
> attack laws and procedures which are unjust.  Now maybe the IRS
> really is so powerful that no-one can risk attacking it, but I
> still have my doubts.

In principle, anything the IRS does can be challenged in Federal
court.  The trouble is that before you can do that, you must first
bring your case to Tax Court, which is operated by -- you guessed it --
the IRS.  Once you lose your case there, I *think* you have to pay
the money they claim you owe and then go to Federal court to get
it back.  This is extremely time-consuming and expensive.