Kind of a folksy story here about a tax protester who got written up in the local paper each year, and seemed to enjoy it, until he was arrested and convicted.
"Tax day is near, what happened to Floyd?" by Steve Huffman in the Times-News, Burlington, NC.
One too many articles
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Foreman of the Unified Citizens' Grand Jury for Pennsylvania
(And author of the Tax Protester FAQ: evans-legal.com/dan/tpfaq.html)
"Nothing is more terrible than ignorance in action." Johann Wolfgang von Goethe.
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Re: One too many articles
The Floyd R. Robertson mentioned in the story was involved in a lawsuit against the IRS, which may have been concurrent with his tax prosecution. Robertson was trying to pry loose from the IRS, using the Freedom Of Information Act, all the papers the IRS had on him (this was a common tactic in slowing down tax prosecutions). The IRS happily disgorged all but five papers, which it contended fell within the exceptions to disclosure specified in the FOIA, such certain types of inter-agency communications. The Court agreed with the IRS on this. Robertson v. IRS (MD NC, July 8, 1980) 80-2 USTC ¶ 9602, 46 AFTR2d 5396.