Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!mnetor!seismo!rutgers!sri-spam!mordor!lll-tis!ptsfa!ihnp4!homxb!mtuxo!mtune!codas!usfvax2!jc3b21!fgd3 From: fgd3@jc3b21.UUCP (Fabbian G. Dufoe) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga Subject: Re: ATTENTION ALL MICRO USERS!!! FCC INFORMATION TAX AHEAD!! Message-ID: <120@jc3b21.UUCP> Date: Wed, 1-Jul-87 22:45:49 EDT Article-I.D.: jc3b21.120 Posted: Wed Jul 1 22:45:49 1987 Date-Received: Sat, 4-Jul-87 07:46:07 EDT References: <2288@husc6.UUCP> <358ddfd2.3903@apollo.uucp> <2315@hoptoad.uucp> <747@hao.UCAR.EDU> Organization: St. Petersburg Jr. College, FL Lines: 58 Summary: Conscientious tax refusers are treated reasonably. In article <747@hao.UCAR.EDU>, hull@hao.UCAR.EDU (Howard Hull) writes: > In article <2315@hoptoad.uucp>, sunny@hoptoad.uucp (Sunny David Kirsten) writes: > > heard The Phone Company will honor your refusals to pay > > taxes on your phone bill. Just send in the correct amount > > less any taxes they charged you with the statement that they > > are in violation of your right to free speech. > > Oh yeah. So you think that only in the CCCP is there anything like the KGB. > I recommend to everyone that they NOT follow your suggestion unless they want > to find out what is a T-Man in the UUCP. If you want to assure the continued > health of the Constitution, find some other way than refusing to support the > government which has the responsibility of operating under it. Please heed > John Hays' suggestions as posted in article <358ddfd2.3903@apollo.uucp>. > > If you wish not to heed my warning, I recommend the following as a procedure > that may provide enough left of you to allow your friends to accompany you to > a mental health clinic after the T is through with you (if they ever finish, > that is). > [a list of elaborate preparations for a protracted court battle follows.] The Treasury Department and the Internal Revenue Service deal with people who refuse to pay taxes for reasons of conscience in a more reasonable way than Howard Hull's warning would lead you to believe. A very close friend of mine refuses to pay her federal telephone tax. She has refused to pay that tax since the Vietnam War. The government has not made any effort to collect it. In addition, she has refused to pay part of her income tax for several years. The IRS audited her return, determined that she was not attempting to conceal any assets, and eventually withheld the amount owed from a refund due her in a subsequent year. Her reason for refusing the telephone tax is that it is a war tax. It was instituted, she tells me, to help pay for the Second World War. After the war it was repealed until the Vietnam War. She refuses part of her income tax to protest the absence of any provision allowing people conscientiously opposed to war to refuse to pay for it. She hopes her action will cause members of Congress to think about the problem and enact a provision in the tax law similar to the conscientious objector status provided for those opposed to military service. So, from my observation, the Treasury Department and the Internal Revenue Service deal reasonably with people who refuse to pay taxes as a matter of conscience. I don't know whether they would look so kindly on a tax refuser who protested the chilling effect on free speech of a tax. Nevertheless, Howard Hull's advice is probably excessive. The tax collectors would like people to believe failure to pay their taxes will have catastrophic consequences. But it just doesn't work out that way in the real world. --Fabbian Dufoe 350 Ling-A-Mor Terrace South St. Petersburg, Florida 33705 813-823-2350 UUCP: ...akgua!usfvax2!jc3b21!fgd3