And, the amount of U.S. federal income tax that may have been evaded appears to be significant for purposes of the Criminal Investigation (CI) division at the Internal Revenue Service: over $85,000.
The taxpayer is identified as being a "Dr" with a first name of James and a middle initial "G." The last name is redacted. Or, at least Pete thought the last name was redacted.
We might infer from what is not redacted that "Dr. James G last-name-sort-of-redacted" is likely to be an anesthesiologist (either a medical doctor or a doctor of osteopathy) licensed in Pennsylvania who has filed a 2011 Form 1040EZ, showing no income from two entities: Anthem Associates, LLC and Premier Anesthesia Group, LLC. These two entities apparently issued year 2011 Form 1099 reports for non-employee compensation they paid to him.
In the materials, both "Dr. James G. last-name-sort-of-redacted" and Pompous Pete stupidly fail to black out some of the personal information. This failure gives the reader both the full social security number AND an important clue as to the taxpayer's last name.
By the way: "Dr. James G last-name-sort-of-redacted" takes the following position in some of the correspondence with the IRS:
--from the taxpayer's March 15, 2014 letter to the IRS.As I did not engage in 'trade or business' or any other federally privileged activity while providing my services in my private capacity to these private companies, no "taxable" event occurred; therefore, no tax liability was incurred. In case the file is deficient, I am enclosing copies of the Forms 4852 that were submitted with my original 1040 filing, which specifically rebut any presumption that the personal payments that were paid to me by these companies were "taxable".
"Dr. James G last-name-sort-of-redacted" had received a notice of deficiency dated June 17, 2013. It appears he did not file a petition with the U.S. Tax Court. At some point later in 2013, the tax ($85,119) was apparently assessed by the IRS.
The IRS issued a notice of intent to levy, dated March 17, 2014, asserting over $109,896.77 (including tax, penalties and interest).
Mysteriously, in early 2015, the IRS sends "Dr. James G last-name-sort-of-redacted" a letter saying no taxes, penalties or interest are due. Either the good doctor paid up or, as is more likely, there has been a typical bureaucratic screw-up at the IRS. Of course, Pompous Pontificating Pete tries to assure his readers that this is yet another victory for his Cracking the Code tax evasion scam.
Meanwhile, after just a few google searches later, I have found what I believe is the taxpayer's last name, his address, the school where he received his degree, his license number with the State of Pennsylvania, and a December 2013 news media report of his involvement in a meeting about setting up a "common law grand jury". (By the way, in passing, this article mentions John Darash, who has been discussed in this forum.) In the article, an unnamed local judge and an unnamed district attorney are reported to have commented that this group has no legal authority to investigate anything.
I suspect that trained IRS personnel studying Pete's postings will easily identify the taxpayer. I just hope for the taxpayer's sake that the government does not decided to prosecute him for attempting to evade $85,119 in federal income tax.
I am not going to say what I suspect to be the taxpayer's last name here, but I have a feeling that other Quatloosians may figure it out.