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[dscotese]

... But the reality, and I have to deal with reality because I, my family, and my clients have to live in reality...the reality of the situation is that tax protesters always loose....

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[hanwong]

Without knowing the specifics of your personal situation I have no comment on your IRS notices. I wasn't and will not in the future comment on a public forum regarding private personal information. In general however, tax protests do fail. If it worked for you, more power to you. As I've stated, my goal as an accountant is to help my clients have the lowest tax bill allowed under the law. If you have found a legal way of reducing your tax bill, then you deserve praise. But I suspect the reason for any tax benefit you received had to do with reasons other than a tax protest argument.

[dscotese]

Without knowing the specifics of your personal situation I have no comment on your IRS notices. I wasn't and will not in the future comment on a public forum regarding private personal information. In general however, tax protests do fail. If it worked for you, more power to you. As I've stated, my goal as an accountant is to help my clients have the lowest tax bill allowed under the law. If you have found a legal way of reducing your tax bill, then you deserve praise. But I suspect the reason for any tax benefit you received had to do with reasons other than a tax protest argument.

Ok.

Are you aware of the possibility that people misinterpret the law in a way that increases the amount tax they believe they owe?

[cointoss]

You are talking about an ignorance tax.  Educate yourself at that link and you'll see that all you need to do is file the paperwork to show that you don't owe the taxes.

Get out of here with this garbage. Peter Hendrickson, the man who wrote that tax book and website, has been convicted and served time in prison twice for his tax schemes.

http://tpgurus.wikidot.com/peter-hendrickson

[Aseras]

The only way to avoid playing taxes is the play the game and beat the taxing agencies with their own rules. If you don't play you loose. If you don't understand the rules, you loose. If you misread the rules you loose. You take everything you can get and use every loophole you can find and have enough "proof" to back it all up and enough lawyers and legal advice to defend it.

[dscotese]

The only way to avoid playing taxes is the play the game and beat the taxing agencies with their own rules. If you don't play you loose. If you don't understand the rules, you loose. If you misread the rules you loose. You take everything you can get and use every loophole you can find and have enough "proof" to back it all up and enough lawyers and legal advice to defend it.

Well put.  I suggest studying Hendrickson's convictions and the arguments on both sides.  It's very enlightening and gratifying to do the work Aseras suggests and to come to a solid conclusion.  Starting with the "Every Which Way but Loose" (EWWBL) examples on the losthorizons site is how I began my research, even after I read the book and still wasn't sure how to play the game by their rules.  The EWWBL examples show the nuts and bolts.