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<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Verdana>What a piece of pond scum Phil Hart is.
Those Republicans that refuse to censure his behavior are not much better.
I long for the days in Boundary County when most of the conservatives were
basically honest people who did not refrain from criticizing dishonesty and
corruption.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Verdana>w.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV style="font-color: black"><B>From:</B> <A title=thansen@moscow.com
href="mailto:thansen@moscow.com">Tom Hansen</A> </DIV>
<DIV><B>Sent:</B> Saturday, October 29, 2011 7:33 AM</DIV>
<DIV><B>To:</B> <A title=vision2020@moscow.com
href="mailto:vision2020@moscow.com">Moscow Vision 2020</A> </DIV>
<DIV><B>Subject:</B> [Vision2020] Feds Move to Foreclose on Hart’s
Home</DIV></DIV></DIV>
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<DIV>Courtesy of today's (October 29, 2011) Spokesman-Review.</DIV>
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move to foreclose on Hart’s home</H1>
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– Federal authorities moved Friday to foreclose on the Athol, Idaho, home of
tax-protesting state Rep. Phil Hart for years of unpaid federal income taxes,
interest and penalties.</P>
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log home was built partly with timber Hart illegally logged from state school
endowment land in 1996, for which he never fully satisfied a court judgment. His
court appeals on the issue failed, and the Idaho Court of Appeals termed his
illegal logging “stealing.”</P></SPAN></SPAN>
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class=Apple-style-span>Federal prosecutors, in a complaint filed in Boise over
the back income taxes, wrote, “Hart has neglected, failed, or refused to make
full payment to the United States of the assessed amounts and the interest and
penalties accrued thereon.” The complaint seeks $550,000.</SPAN><BR></P>
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U.S. Department of Justice says Hart, who didn’t return a reporter’s calls
Friday, will as of Monday owe the IRS $549,703.48. It has filed tax liens
against Hart and a trust in whose name he placed the home in 1997 for more than
half a million dollars; now the government seeks to foreclose those liens and
take the property.</P>
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County tax records, however, show the home on 10 rural acres in Athol is valued
for tax purposes at $271,573 as of 2010.</P>
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federal complaint also contends Hart’s transfer of the home into a trust in the
name of his now-grown daughter was a “fraudulent transfer” that the federal
court should set aside. It happened in 1997 when he knew the IRS was after him
for unpaid income taxes, the complaint says.</P>
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executed a series of warranty deeds transferring the home to a firm called White
Peak Ventures, and that firm then transferred the property to “John Doe” as
trustee for the Sarah Elizabeth Hart Trust, according to the complaint. That
trust owns his home, but the IRS has determined that it is a nominee for Phil
Hart – in other words, that he still owns the home, where he has continued to
live and pays no rent.</P>
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complaint calls the trust a “sham entity.” It asks the court to rule that “the
United States has valid and subsisting federal tax liens on all property and
rights belonging to Hart, whether real or personal, wherever located, and
whether presently held or hereinafter acquired,” including the Athol home. “The
property shall be sold, and … the proceeds from the sale shall be distributed in
accordance with the court’s findings,” the complaint states. It also asks that
Hart be ordered to pay the federal government’s court costs for bringing
the case.</P>
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will have an opportunity to respond to the federal complaint before a judge
considers it.</P>
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stopped filing federal income tax returns in 1996 while he unsuccessfully
pressed a lawsuit charging that the federal income tax is unconstitutional; he
also stopped filing state income tax returns and has argued the state income tax
also is unconstitutional. Hart contends he started filing again after several
years, but both federal and state authorities say he has never fully
paid up.</P>
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was removed from the House Revenue and Taxation Committee and agreed to give up
his vice chairmanship of the House Transportation Committee this year in
response to ethics complaints filed over his tax issues, his use of legislative
privilege to delay his state and federal tax cases, and the timber theft. He
apologized to the House in February.</P>
<P
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continues to serve as a state representative representing District 3 in North
Idaho. He was first elected in 2004.</P></SPAN>
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<DIV>Seeya round town, Moscow.</DIV>
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<DIV>Tom Hansen</DIV>
<DIV>Moscow, Idaho</DIV></DIV>
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