On Offense

“Many a man stumbles across the truth, then picks himself up and hurries on as though nothing had happened.”
-Winston Churchill

It's no coincidence that the federal government's 'stop-loss', PR-oriented defense against 'Cracking the Code- The Fascinating Truth About Taxation In America'-- announced with a blast of trumpets on April 12, 2006; promptly cold-cocked by reply; and being quietly tip-toed around ever since-- was deployed at the time that it was.  This governmental "best shot", taking the form of "lawsuits" intended to look to the untutored eye as though they dispute the book while explicitly misrepresenting what it actually says, and carefully declining to simply assert that, "So-and-so, having been paid money during 20XX, therefore owed x% of that money as tax..." (or words to that straightforward effect), was timed to serve two interests.

To suit the secondary of these two interests, this defensive maneuver was trotted out five days before "tax day".  This was a delicate timing.  It was intended to generate uncertainty and timidity in the minds of those who have learned of CtC but haven't read the book personally-- and who were therefore dithering or struggling with the decision as to how to file, up to the very last minute-- while leaving insufficient time for the anticipated debunking responses to be available to the same target audience.  Unlike typical first quarter heading-down-the-lane-for-a-slam-dunk IRS "compliance-encouragement" announcements, which hit the papers weeks before "tax day", this was a "Hail Mary" pass, counting on gimmickry to accomplish its purpose.  A hope that those who HAVE acted, and have secured victories, would be discouraged from sharing their evidence with the world for fear of being targeted for this same sort of harassment is a likely additional aspect of this interest.

The primary interest being served by this timing was the disrupting of momentum toward a class-action lawsuit to force the processing of CtC-educated returns, the evasion of which is becoming an all-too-common tax-agency practice.  Lacking any legal means of thwarting the inconvenient effect of proper returns filed by those who have not engaged in any taxable activities and aren't afraid to say so in a meaningful manner, the IRS and some state tax agencies have taken to treating many such returns as "unfiled"-- that is, as though they were never completed and submitted.  This is done in order to evade statutory requirements to return withheld property, or to support agency-preferred conclusions that a tax is owed, which would be legally valid in the absence of a return establishing the contrary.

However, the laws defining valid returns and requiring their processing, the court rulings related to these subjects, and even the IRS's own operating manuals, legal department declarations, and agency-drafted regulations are all perfectly and unambiguously clear.  The only reason this tax-agency finger-in-the-dike pretense is managing to hold back the sea is the lack of a concerted action against it in the courts.  Last November (only a few weeks after I observed on this page that in its February, 2005, newsletter, Barsa and Associates, CPAs, reported an IRS estimate that fully 1.3 million "Forms 4852" are now completed and submitted to the agency each year), I launched the Lost Horizons Legal Offense Fund which is dedicated to financing just such a concerted action.  Hindering or disrupting this action is "job one" for the beneficiaries of the "income" tax scheme, and the timing of these bogus "lawsuits" was calculated toward that end.

After all, intense IRS scrutiny of, and opposition to, CtC, and this website, first manifested in August of 2003-- as soon as CtC was published.  In March, 2004, when the first of three previous efforts to thwart the dissemination of the book's message began in earnest, a printout of losthorizons.com from August 2003 was included with the government's exhibits.  And yet, our 2002 tax return had been filed that same month.  It was initially answered more than a month later by an effort to deny it, and then, after that effort was met with an inflexible response, a complete refund issued two months later, in November, 2003.

In April of 2004, after the IRS had already launched the aforementioned initial assault, our 2003 return was filed.  After more than five months, repeated agency correspondences concerning that return, a personal meeting with (and gift of a book to) the IRS agents conducting the ongoing assault on CtC, a brief contest with the Eastern District of Michigan's US Attorney's Office ending in the Assistant US Attorney moving the court to dismiss its action against me (followed by the coincidental? resignation of the AUSA), and the initiation of two more IRS efforts to suppress CtC (both of which, after being contested, would subsequently be dismissed at the request of the DOJ), we received our complete refund for 2003.  I feel pretty comfortable suggesting that the filing of the hokey "lawsuit"-- more than two years after our 2003 return, and more than two and a half years after our 2002 return-- reflects nothing more than an acute government awareness of the Legal Offense Fund and its purpose, and that this website now receives well over a million hits every month (see last month's figures below).

Well, sorry, Charley.

Although the Legal Offense Fund is not yet nearly to the level I think is necessary to see the whole thing through, it is time to start.  Work has already begun on the relevant legal materials.  I now need to hear from those who will participate as plaintiffs.  To begin with, at least, this group will consist ONLY of those who have filed proper and timely original returns (either by the appropriate year's "tax day" or the automatic extension date, if an extension was requested)-- not amended returns; can prove they have done so; haven't received the refund claimed; and have either had no notice for six months or more since filing, have received notice characterizing the return(s) as "frivolous", and/or have been subjected to any adverse treatment specifically related to the year in question (which can apply to years for which no refund was claimed, but a return was filed rebutting one or more erroneous "information returns").

If you qualify, please prepare and email to me a MS Word or Abode Acrobat document containing scans of your return docs (including extension requests), proof of submission, and a single related agency page or screen shot showing that the return was "disallowed" or declared "frivolous", or a brief write-up as to a continued silence now more than six months old.  Feel free to obscure SS#s, and address info as well, if you wish, but be sure that dates and names are intact.  Please respond without delay.  If you simply cannot scan and assemble a document as described above, email me to that effect, and I will try to provide an alternative.

Immediate Offensive Measures

Please don't fail or forget to send me scans of your refunds, and encourage others to do the same!!!

I am aware that educated Americans are now receiving refunds (and other confirmations of the truth) constantly-- but only a small minority of these victories are being sent to me for posting.  Some people are so excited at their success that they rush to deposit the check, and don't think to make a copy until afterwards when it is too late; others simply don't realize how meaningful the evidence of these victories and verifications are to their fellow Americans, and don't remember how important those previously posted had been to they themselves when they were struggling to overcome the fear instilled in them over a lifetime before standing up and doing the right thing.  SCAN THEM AND SEND THEM, PLEASE!  If you can't scan, email me and I'll provide a fax number.  By the way, even direct-deposit refunds can be posted, by way of your monthly statement entries, or a transcript from your bank.  If you have RETAINED your own property by way of a CtC-educated proper filing and rebuttal of erroneous information, get a transcript of your 'account' status, calculate your savings, and share that victory, too!

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"Resistance to tyranny is obedience to God"

-Thomas Jefferson

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"The Tax Code represents the genius of legal fiction...  The IRS has never really known why people pay the income tax... The IRS encourages voluntary compliance, through FEAR."

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Court Report

Warriors get some traction in two current legal contests:

The Colorado court hosting Beth Neuger's lawsuit to force the state DOR to process her tax returns has denied repeated efforts by the state to dismiss Beth's complaint, and has now ordered the state to stop its year-long dodging and answer her complaint.

The federal district judge in the IRS "lawsuit" harassment of Jim Spitzer has denied a government effort to to prevent Jim from responding to its "Brief In Opposition To Defendant's Motion To Dismiss" and introducing the IRS transcript showing that he had no "income" and owed no tax during 2004.  That's the the year for which the government's suit must prove that Jim DID have "income" and not only had owed, but had paid as tax, the money it wishes to demand from him-- BEFORE it acquires standing to be suing him in the first place...  (Want to know why the government is obliged to try this impossible stand-in-a-bucket-and-lift-itself-up-by-the-handle contortion in its effort to frighten Americans away from CtC by means of these PR "lawsuits"?  READ THE BOOK!)

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Warrior Jason Hihn has now launched a suit to force the Maryland Department of Revenue to process his 2004 tax return.

Are you involved in a legal contest over government efforts to evade your CtC-educated filings?  Warriors across America (and around the world) want to cheer you on, and be inspired by your efforts on behalf of the rule of law.  Send a BRIEF but DETAILED synopsis of your situation to "newsletter 'at' losthorizons.com"