The Seattle Post Intelligencer reported that last week a federal judge issued an injunction against a tax promoter enjoining him from promoting his tax protester schemes:
The injunction issued Wednesday was intended to prevent a recurrence of tax fraud promotions once Daniel P. Andersen is released from custody, U.S. District Judge James L. Robart said.
Andersen, 42, has been in a federal prison in Lompoc, Calif., since September on a 2 1/2-year sentence for conspiring to defraud the government.
The former Massachusetts construction worker founded the Institute for Global Prosperity in 1996, charging up to $1,250 for a 12-part audio course on phony income tax avoidance schemes and as much as $37,000 a person to attend offshore conferences in which “so-called experts” peddled their own bogus tax-avoidance offerings, government lawyers wrote in their injunction request.
Anderson seemed to have floated whatever absurd tax protester argument he thought would work:
The Justice Department said the institute falsely claimed that the 16th Amendment to the Constitution – which authorized an income tax – was never properly ratified.
It also told customers that citizens wouldn’t have to pay income taxes if they relinquished their Social Security numbers, that wages aren’t income subject to tax and that the Internal Revenue Service has jurisdiction only in federally administered territories, not in the 50 states, government lawyers said.
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