Comments on: Conscience and History: Frivolous Filing https://nwtrcc.org/2018/12/07/conscience-and-history-frivolous-filing/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=conscience-and-history-frivolous-filing Sat, 08 Dec 2018 01:07:43 +0000 hourly 1 By: Karl Meyer https://nwtrcc.org/2018/12/07/conscience-and-history-frivolous-filing/#comment-1885 Sat, 08 Dec 2018 01:07:43 +0000 https://nwtrcc.org/?p=8886#comment-1885 365 daily protest tax returns for the year 1983, filed in 1984, to 365 different IRS offices around the U.S., raising a variety of peace and social justice grievances on Federal priorities and budgeting. 280 got back to the regional enforcement office, and I was fined $500 each, for a total of $140,000. In early 1985, when the IRS seized my station wagon used for carpentry work, and sold it at auction for $1000, the news went viral in Chicago and nationally, including stories in the Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, Los Angeles Reader, and many smaller papers, and in electronic media. Unfortunately, this action did not spark a mass movement of military tax protest, as early actions by a few of us in the 60’s sparked a mass movement of draft card burnings to protest the Vietnam War. In planning this action, I had hoped that would be a result.
The $1000 was all the IRS ever succeeded in collecting, and the claims became legally uncollectible after ten years. The IRS has never bothered me since, though I continue to earn taxable income every year, haven’t filed tax returns for the other 58 years of my 59 years of open public war tax refusal. The only year I didn’t earn taxable income was 2001 when I spent six months in Federal custody for trespassing at the School of the Americas and was paid only $18.48 for my work in a prison cafeteria. Across my 59 years of 100% income and phone tax refusal, the IRS has only succeeded in collecting a total of about $1268, out of many thousands claimed, even after they slammed me in prison for nine months of a two year maximum sentence in 1971-72 for war tax refusal agitating.
Keep on trucking. The U.S. has the largest military budget ever, and, I think, more hot wars going than ever before: Yemen, Afghanistan, Syria, Iraq, and drone bombings in Pakistan, Somalia, Libya, and who knows how many other countries.

]]> By: Erica https://nwtrcc.org/2018/12/07/conscience-and-history-frivolous-filing/#comment-1884 Fri, 07 Dec 2018 20:13:04 +0000 https://nwtrcc.org/?p=8886#comment-1884 In reply to Larry Bassett.

Yes, thanks! Karl’s story is on our Frivolous Filing page linked in the blog post!

]]> By: Larry Bassett https://nwtrcc.org/2018/12/07/conscience-and-history-frivolous-filing/#comment-1883 Fri, 07 Dec 2018 20:00:38 +0000 https://nwtrcc.org/?p=8886#comment-1883 We remember resistor Karl Myer who Initiated what he called cabbage patch resistance in response to the frivolous filing penalty. He filed frivolous returns repeatedly and amassed a large backlog of penalties that were not collected. I am sure Karl’s story must be found someplace on the NWTRCC website.

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