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| IRS Under Attack in Texas |
AP
Joseph Stack's methods were unthinkable -- he is accused of ramming a plane into an
Internal Revenue Service building in Texas -- but his views on taxation follow a long line of
protesters who believe tax laws don't apply to them.
While their numbers aren't large, according to experts, their arguments are so enticing that
the IRS has published a guide to debunk their claims. In 2008, the Justice Department was
concerned enough to start the "National Tax Defier Initiative" to better coordinate prosecutions.
"You would think a little light bulb would go on in their head and they would say, 'Why in the
heck is everybody else paying taxes?"' said Peter R. Zeidenberg, a former federal prosecutor
who is now a litigation partner at the law firm DLA Piper in Washington. "There are people who
are peddling this stuff. It's a way to get people to believe something that's too good to be true."
A 3,000-word manifesto posted on a Web site registered in Stack's name rails against the IRS
and accuses the agency of ruining his life. Stack's bitter feud with the IRS apparently drove
him to commit suicide Thursday by slamming his single-engine Piper PA-28 into an Austin
office building where the IRS has offices.
Stack's writings suggest he was part of a loosely organized movement that stretches back to
at least the 1950s. Some believe the 16th Amendment to the Constitution, which authorizes
Congress to levy income taxes, was not legally ratified; it was ratified in 1913.
Others believe that paying taxes is purely voluntary. Still others believe in fictional loopholes
that would exempt large groups of Americans from paying taxes if they were only in on the
secret.
Believers aren't limited to anti-government militia members living off the land out West. Stack
was a 53-year-old software engineer in Austin. Other followers include movie star Wesley
Snipes and a decorated police detective in the nation's capital.
"They're fairly prevalent," said Mark Potok, director of the Intelligence Project for the
Southern Poverty Law Center, which tracks extremist groups. "We've had a right wing tax
protest movement going back several decades now. They were very hot in the 1990s, but they
are very much still out there."
The center has documented five plots against the IRS or its agents since 1995, including one
that year to blow up an IRS office in Austin. Potok said he was unsure if it was the same
building Stack crashed the plane into.
In 2006, a Utah man was accused of threatening IRS employees with "death by firing squad" if
they continued to try to collect taxes from him and his wife. The man, David D'Addabbo,
pleaded guilty to one charge of threatening a government agent and was sentenced to five
months already served.
Not all tax protesters resort to violence.
Snipes, star of the "Blade" trilogy and other films, was convicted on tax charges and
sentenced to three years in prison in 2008 after claiming that Americans have no obligation to
pay taxes and the IRS cannot legally collect them. The detective in Washington, D.C., Michael
Irving, got a 14-month prison sentence last year after prosecutors said he fraudulently
arranged for the police department to stop withholding taxes from his paychecks.
"Most of us are respectfully fearful of the IRS. Most people understand their authority," said
Matthew J. Campione, a former IRS lawyer who is now a tax law specialist at the law firm of
SmolenPlevy in Vienna, Va. "But you have people who are gullible, you have people who
engage in wishful thinking, you have some people who are struggling to make ends meet."
In the letter on Stack's Web site, which has since been removed, Stack said he had gone to
"tax code readings and discussions" where he learned about "wonderful 'exemptions' that
make institutions like the vulgar, corrupt Catholic Church so incredibly wealthy." He said an
attempt to claim similar exemptions inevitably cost him $40,000 and "10 years of my life."
He also complained about a 1986 change in the tax law that made it harder for engineers like
himself to claim certain deductions as independent contractors, rather than salaried
employees. One year, Stack wrote, he didn't file a tax return, "thinking that because I didn't
have any income there was no need. The sleazy government decided that they disagreed."
Joseph Stack's methods were unthinkable -- he is accused of ramming a plane into an
Internal Revenue Service building in Texas -- but his views on taxation follow a long line of
protesters who believe tax laws don't apply to them.
While their numbers aren't large, according to experts, their arguments are so enticing that
the IRS has published a guide to debunk their claims. In 2008, the Justice Department was
concerned enough to start the "National Tax Defier Initiative" to better coordinate prosecutions.
"You would think a little light bulb would go on in their head and they would say, 'Why in the
heck is everybody else paying taxes?"' said Peter R. Zeidenberg, a former federal prosecutor
who is now a litigation partner at the law firm DLA Piper in Washington. "There are people who
are peddling this stuff. It's a way to get people to believe something that's too good to be true."
A 3,000-word manifesto posted on a Web site registered in Stack's name rails against the IRS
and accuses the agency of ruining his life. Stack's bitter feud with the IRS apparently drove
him to commit suicide Thursday by slamming his single-engine Piper PA-28 into an Austin
office building where the IRS has offices.
Stack's writings suggest he was part of a loosely organized movement that stretches back to
at least the 1950s. Some believe the 16th Amendment to the Constitution, which authorizes
Congress to levy income taxes, was not legally ratified; it was ratified in 1913.
Others believe that paying taxes is purely voluntary. Still others believe in fictional loopholes
that would exempt large groups of Americans from paying taxes if they were only in on the
secret.
Believers aren't limited to anti-government militia members living off the land out West. Stack
was a 53-year-old software engineer in Austin. Other followers include movie star Wesley
Snipes and a decorated police detective in the nation's capital.
"They're fairly prevalent," said Mark Potok, director of the Intelligence Project for the
Southern Poverty Law Center, which tracks extremist groups. "We've had a right wing tax
protest movement going back several decades now. They were very hot in the 1990s, but they
are very much still out there."
The center has documented five plots against the IRS or its agents since 1995, including one
that year to blow up an IRS office in Austin. Potok said he was unsure if it was the same
building Stack crashed the plane into.
In 2006, a Utah man was accused of threatening IRS employees with "death by firing squad" if
they continued to try to collect taxes from him and his wife. The man, David D'Addabbo,
pleaded guilty to one charge of threatening a government agent and was sentenced to five
months already served.
Not all tax protesters resort to violence.
Snipes, star of the "Blade" trilogy and other films, was convicted on tax charges and
sentenced to three years in prison in 2008 after claiming that Americans have no obligation to
pay taxes and the IRS cannot legally collect them. The detective in Washington, D.C., Michael
Irving, got a 14-month prison sentence last year after prosecutors said he fraudulently
arranged for the police department to stop withholding taxes from his paychecks.
"Most of us are respectfully fearful of the IRS. Most people understand their authority," said
Matthew J. Campione, a former IRS lawyer who is now a tax law specialist at the law firm of
SmolenPlevy in Vienna, Va. "But you have people who are gullible, you have people who
engage in wishful thinking, you have some people who are struggling to make ends meet."
In the letter on Stack's Web site, which has since been removed, Stack said he had gone to
"tax code readings and discussions" where he learned about "wonderful 'exemptions' that
make institutions like the vulgar, corrupt Catholic Church so incredibly wealthy." He said an
attempt to claim similar exemptions inevitably cost him $40,000 and "10 years of my life."
He also complained about a 1986 change in the tax law that made it harder for engineers like
himself to claim certain deductions as independent contractors, rather than salaried
employees. One year, Stack wrote, he didn't file a tax return, "thinking that because I didn't
have any income there was no need. The sleazy government decided that they disagreed."