Tax Scams

Tax Protestors
Are you still paying income tax? Didn't you hear that income doesn't include wages, or that the 16th Amendment was never ratified, or that none of the states are actually in the U.S., or that income isn't defined in the Internal Revenue Code? Or didn't you know that if you simply placed all of your assets into a Pure Trust that nobody could ever touch them or collect taxes on them, including the government? Well, if you didn't hear any of this, don't worry because it ain't true. What is true is that some scam artists have made good money selling these bogus theories before themselves ending up in jail.

Includes: Anti-IRS Theories -- Tax Protestor Theories De-Bunked -- Frivolous Filer Arguments -- IRS: The Truth About Frivolous Tax Arguments -- IRS Codebusters Scam -- Tax Protestor News & Articles -- Tax Protestor Message Forum

• Exhibit: TAX PROTESTOR DUMMIES

• Exhibit: CONSTITUTIONAL TRUSTS A/K/A PURE TRUSTS
  Includes: Summary of Abusive Trust Schemes -- Pure Trusts Forum

• Exhibit: BREAKING NEWS REGARDING TAX SCAMS

• Exhibit: DR. SWEET AND THE JoY FOUNDATION

NEW! - Top Tax Lawyer Pleads Guilty to Felony Tax Evasion

NEW! - Senate Finance Committee - Hearing on "Charity Oversight and Reform: Keeping Bad Things from Happening to Good Charities". (June 22, 2004).Mr. Adkissson's Testimony (pdf)

NEW! -- Tax Fraud Promoters Associated with "We The People" Convicted for Selling Bogus "Pure Trusts" that Falsely Promised to Protect Income from Taxes

NEW! - Tax Return Errors and Frivolous Tax Arguments -- To help people filling out their tax forms avoid a variety of scams, schemes and errors, the Internal Revenue Service has made several guidance documents available.

NEW! - IRS 'Dirty Dozen' for 2004: Agency Warns of New Scams -- Annual consumer alert, the Internal Revenue Service urged taxpayers to avoid falling victim to one of the “Dirty Dozen” tax scams and a variety of other schemes...

NEW! - Tax Scam/Consumer Alerts -- Don't fall victim to tax scams. Remember that if it sounds too good to be true, it probably is...

NEW! - Court Orders California Employer to Withhold Federal Taxes from Employees' Wages

 

Includes: Tax Fraud Forums

• Exhibit: CORPORATE TAX SHELTERS

• Exhibit: INDIVIDUAL TAX SHELTERS

NEW! The Role of Professional Firms in the U.S. Tax Shelter Industry - Report prepared by the Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations of the Committee on Homeland Security. (pdf)

NEW! Federal Court Shuts Down Multi-State "Warehouse Banking" Tax Evasion Scheme - California Man Helped Customers Hide Income And Assets From IRS

NEW! - xelan - Are you a physician? Do you need a tax break? How about some financial planning? Need something really special that you can’t get anywhere else?

INVESTIGATION - Xelan Disability Insurance Trusts Examined - Xelan of San Diego is under investigation for selling tax shelters to physician groups nationwide...

NEW! - Tax Shelter Remediation -- Discusses what you can do to get out of an abusive tax shelter and includes questions answered by a licensed tax attorney regarding tax shelters and remedies against promoters of tax shelters.

NEW! - Treasury Issues Rules To Increase Transparency and Halt Abusive Tax Avoidance Transactions

NEW! - Employee Leasing Shelters

NEW! - Treasury, IRS Continue Crackdown on Abusive Tax Shelters

NEW! - IRS Offshore Deferred Compensation Warning (pdf)