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IRS fixed the mix-up and we don't owe anything!  H&R Block didn't help at all and in fact they were rude, never got back to me, and we extremely worthless. 

DON"T BELIEVE THAT THEY WILL PROVIDE AUDIT SUPPORT. 

I was told that they would get back to me in four business days and that never happened.  When explaining my situation on the phone the lady would put me on hold and I could hear her laughing with other people in the background.  Whenever I asked her what I was holding for she would snap, "for me to process your request."  There was no conclusion, no help, no support, they did absolutly nothing for me.   

However, my old company knew what was wrong and sent me the information that I needed to fix it.  So after waiting a week for H&R Block the whole situation ended up taking two phone calls: one to my old company and one to the IRS and everything was cleared.  The IRS was much more helpfull than H&R Block (after you got through all of the automated messages in order to talk to a real person).  Good luck to you all with your last minute taxes! 

Gold and Silver Coins Used to Pay Wages


161 Federal Tax Charges, 0 Convictions

Around noon on Monday, September 17th, a Las Vegas federal jury returned its verdict refusing to convict nine defendants of any of the 161 federal tax crimes they had been charged with.  The charges included income tax evasion, willful failure to file and conspiracy to evade taxes.

The four-month trial centered around the family businesses of Robert Kahre who paid numerous workers for their labor with circulating gold and silver U.S. coins, and did not report the wages. The payments took place over several years, allegedly totaling at least $114 million dollars.
 
On September 20, 2007, three days after the federal trial's dramatic conclusion, the Las Vegas Review Journal, reportedly under a degree of public pressure, ran its first (and last) story about the outcome of the trial. To this day, with exception of the single article by the Review Journal, no major media entity has published a news story regarding the outcome of this important federal criminal tax case.     

The censorship of this important news story is, unfortunately, not unexpected given the continuing, worldwide onslaught against the U.S. "dollar" -- specifically the Federal Reserve variety, and the ever growing numbers of Federal Reserve Notes required to trade for an actual ounce of silver, gold, oil, or for that matter, anything. 

In short, this failed prosecution has coalesced and exposed truths our Government desperately needs to hide from the People: the truth about our money, the truth about our (privately-owned) central bank, and the truth about the fraudulent nature of the operation and enforcement of the federal income tax system. 

Click here to read the April, 2005 DOJ press release announcing the prosecution.
Click here to read the 9/20 story by the Review Journal about the trial.   

According to defense attorney Joel Hansen, who represented co-defendant Alex Loglia, the primary "willfulness" defense was that the defendants believed they had no legal obligation to withhold, pay income taxes or report anything to the government because, in part, the nominal (i.e., face value) of the gold and silver coins is so small as to fall beneath the reporting thresholds set by the Internal Revenue Code.

The Defendants also argued that regardless of the valuation of the coins for internal revenue purposes, there is no law that requires average American workers to file or pay direct, un-apportioned taxes on the fruits of their labor.

The Government argued that the payments in solid gold and silver U.S. coins must be considered at their bullion (i.e., intrinsic full-market) value when considering the worth of the wages for purposes of the internal revenue code.

Attorney Hansen cited two Supreme Court cases bolstering Defendant's monetary argument at the heart of the defendants "willfulness" defense.

The essence of the argument is that under the Constitution Congress is obligated by law to mint and circulate such coins as demand requires, and must establish the value of coins as they are used as legal tender, but the coins' market value, arising as valuable personal "property," is a distinct, separate attribute of such coins, and is of no legal consequence if the coins are used as legal tender.

In other words, if a worker is paid with such coins, his taxable "income" (if any) can only be the face value indicated upon the coin money paid -- i.e., $1.00 for a circulating silver dollar or $50 for a circulating gold U.S. coin. Not surprisingly, the IRS has never issued any public guidance regarding this significant issue.

The first case, Ling Su Fan v. U.S., 218 US 302 (1910) establishes the legal distinction of a coin bearing the "impress" of the sovereign:

"These limitations are due to the fact that public law gives to such coinage a value which does not attach as a mere consequence of intrinsic value. Their quality as a legal tender is an attribute of law aside from their bullion value. They bear, therefore, the impress of sovereign power which fixes value and authorizes their use in exchange."  

The second case, Thompson v. Butler, 95 US 694 (1877), establishes that the law makes no legal distinction between the values of coin and paper money used as legal tender: 

"A coin dollar is worth no more for the purposes of tender in payment of an ordinary debt than a note dollar. The law has not made the note a standard of value any more than coin. It is true that in the market, as an article of merchandise, one is of greater value than the other; but as money, that is to say, as a medium of exchange, the law knows no difference between them."

Defense attorney Hansen confirmed that members of the jury were able to actually hold and inspect the gold and silver U.S. coins paid to the workers.

After almost four months of testimony and three and a half days of deliberation, the jury did not convict any of the defendants of any of the 161 crimes alleged.  Although some defendants were acquitted of multiple counts, and several were acquitted completely, others may have to stand for a retrial if the Government brings charges a second time.

The Review Journal reported the jury foreman claimed DOJ prosecutors admitted they were "shocked" by the outcome.  

In March 2007, the primary defendant, Bob Kahre, filed a federal civil rights lawsuit against the prosecutor and IRS agents who had conducted what he alleges to be an unlawful search and seizure raid. In 2005, the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals refused to overturn a previous District Court ruling holding that the federal prosecutor is not entitled to absolute immunity for the unlawful raid. Read more.

Click here to execute a Google News search to attempt to locate recent news stories about the Kahre tax trial. 

The media suppression of this story is similar to the widespread mainstream media suppression of the July 11, 2007 acquittal of Louisiana attorney Tommy Cryer who was also charged with multiple federal income tax crimes and relied upon numerous Supreme Court precedents and U.S. tax laws to establish his "willfulness" defense. Click here for a previous WTP update containing a link to Cryer's 100-page Motion to Dismiss which details his legal arguments. 

Click here to execute a Google News archive search to attempt to locate news stories about Tommy Cryer's tax trial. 

Yay that is a sarcastic statement there!  Yet again we have something to say thank you to our US gov't for screwing us, the citizens again!

To the point that even the IRS is prety pist also!

For those of you who haven't been reading the news lately last month, it was brought to everyone's attention by the IRS, that the gov't screwed us for next years taxes and when we can file and the tax laws!

All because they have some stupid ass ppl who can't budget in our federal gov't!

And now that it is offical by not only the IRS but our gov't all the main news sorces have it out........you can NOT file your taxes till Febuary 11th if you are using these 5 forms:

• Form 8863, Education Credits.
• Form 5695, Residential Energy Credits.
• Form 1040A’s Schedule 2, Child and Dependent Care Expenses for Form 1040A Filers.
• Form 8396, Mortgage Interest Credit and
• Form 8859, District of Columbia First-Time Homebuyer Credit.

Guess what..........the middle class folks get screwed again!  Parents get screwed again.  College students and private school parents get screwed again.  Home owners get screwed again.

If you want the full story check it out here:  http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/22409868/

I am soooooooooo farking pist.  I always file my taxes in January so I am not stressing over it, I can get back bills paid off or almost off, and do something nice for my kids and hubby.  But no thanks to our none budgeting over spending, taking care of every other farking country but our own gov't..........we are getting screwed again.

THANKS BUSH AND HIS PUPPETS!

Can we say S T O O P I D!  That is what our country is anymore.  The gov't just passed a bill saying that cities and the gov't can sue other countries for unclaimed property taxes.  And guess who is going to be responsible for picking those unpaid taxes up?  Yep the US Citizens!

The State Department is even saying there is going to be retalation from the countries towards the US because of this stupid ass bill.  It's bad enough that by a big burp in our gov't we are even paying taxes on our own items and property because it is tech illegal to have to pay taxes; now the US Citizens are going to be dinged with more taxes because our own gov't doesn't know how to budget! 

I mean seriously, I am freaking over being a measly few thousand in debt.  If I would budget the way the gov't does I would be homeless with no money!  The IRS would be on my ass to repay everything I owed.  But the gov't can and does get away with over spending, not paying their own private taxes and getting outragouse amounts of salary for doing nothing but screwing up our country!

HOW STUPID IS OUR COUNTRY!