<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:times new roman, new york, times, serif;font-size:18pt"><div><span>You have to pay your taxes. However, I cannot disagree with the argument that the Federal government collecting from individuals instead of from the individual states is unfair to individuals, unequal in taxation burden, inaccurate, and <span id="misspell-0"><span>inefficient</span></span>. </span></div><div><span></span> </div><div><span>Counties and states should collect all the taxes. Micromanaging each and every one of the 300 million + persons in the country by the Federal government is too much power in one branch of government. </span></div><div><span></span> </div><div><span>The IRS can easily destroy anyone financially even if they did nothing wrong, checked the wrong box on a complex form written in language only tax attorneys understand, or lost a receipt. It
doesn't seem right that person should have to go up against 50,000 federal <span id="misspell-0"><span>bureaucrats</span></span> to fix an error. They should just be able to visit a county commissioner or state representative to get it fixed. </span></div><div><span></span> </div><div><span>Donovan Arnold</span></div><div><br></div> <div style="font-family: times new roman, new york, times, serif; font-size: 18pt;"> <div style="font-family: times new roman, new york, times, serif; font-size: 12pt;"> <font size="2" face="Arial"> <div style="margin: 5px 0px; padding: 0px; border: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); height: 0px; line-height: 0; font-size: 0px;" class="hr" contentEditable="false" readonly="true"></div> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">From:</span></b> Tom Hansen <thansen@moscow.com><br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">To:</span></b> Moscow Vision 2020 <vision2020@moscow.com> <br> <b><span
style="font-weight: bold;">Sent:</span></b> Friday, January 6, 2012 4:25 PM<br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Subject:</span></b> [Vision2020] Hart Answers Federal Lawsuit<br> </font> <br>
<div id="yiv196904195"><div><div></div><div>Courtesy of the Coeur d'Alene Press at:</div><div><br></div>http://www.cdapress.com/news/political/article_f75ec1c5-5e2b-5b0a-858e-cf5ffecba378.html<div><div><br></div><div>------------------------------</div><div><h1 style="border-width: 0px; font: bold 24px/27px Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; margin: 10px 0px 0px; padding: 0px; color: black; vertical-align: baseline; float: none; outline-width: 0px; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; background-image: none; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Hart answers federal lawsuit</h1><div style="border-width: 0px; font: 17px/24px Times, serif; margin: 10px 0px 0px; padding: 0px; color: black; vertical-align: baseline; float: none; outline-width: 0px; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; background-image: none; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><b>By ALECIA WARREN/Staff writer | Posted: Friday, January 6, 2012 12:15 am</b></div><div
style="border-width: 0px; font: 17px/24px Times, serif; margin: 10px 0px 0px; padding: 0px; color: black; vertical-align: baseline; float: none; outline-width: 0px; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; background-image: none; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">A state legislator from Athol filed an answer on Thursday to the federal government's lawsuit against him seeking to collect more than half a million dollars in back-income taxes.</div><div style="border-width: 0px; font: 17px/24px Times, serif; margin: 10px 0px 0px; padding: 0px; color: black; vertical-align: baseline; float: none; outline-width: 0px; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; background-image: none; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Rep. Phil Hart claims in the document that the IRS is wrong in asking him to pay eight years worth of business deductions, which he believes have been denied because of his book challenging the legality of the income
tax.</div><div style="border-width: 0px; font: 17px/24px Times, serif; margin: 10px 0px 0px; padding: 0px; color: black; vertical-align: baseline; float: none; outline-width: 0px; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; background-image: none; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">"No, they won't accept my answer," Hart predicted of the federal government's reaction. "They never do in any lawsuit."</div><div style="border-width: 0px; font: 17px/24px Times, serif; margin: 10px 0px 0px; padding: 0px; color: black; vertical-align: baseline; float: none; outline-width: 0px; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; background-image: none; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">But his answer does kick off the legal process, he stated.</div><div style="border-width: 0px; font: 17px/24px Times, serif; margin: 10px 0px 0px; padding: 0px; color: black; vertical-align: baseline; float: none; outline-width: 0px; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch:
normal; background-image: none; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">"Now we get to iron out all the details," he wrote in an email. "It will take some time."</div><div style="border-width: 0px; font: 17px/24px Times, serif; margin: 10px 0px 0px; padding: 0px; color: black; vertical-align: baseline; float: none; outline-width: 0px; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; background-image: none; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Idaho's U.S. Attorney Wendy Olson and the U.S. Department of Justice sued Hart through the U.S. District Court last October, with a list of unpaid federal income taxes, penalties and interest from 1996 to 2008. The suit also included notices of federal tax liens recorded over several years.</div><div style="border-width: 0px; font: 17px/24px Times, serif; margin: 10px 0px 0px; padding: 0px; color: black; vertical-align: baseline; float: none; outline-width: 0px; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;
background-image: none; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">The accumulated taxes stem from several years Hart refused to pay income tax out of his legal convictions. He also unsuccessfully sued the IRS in 1998 challenging the constitutionality of income tax.</div><div style="border-width: 0px; font: 17px/24px Times, serif; margin: 10px 0px 0px; padding: 0px; color: black; vertical-align: baseline; float: none; outline-width: 0px; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; background-image: none; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">All totaled, the federal government is holding Hart liable for $549,703.48.</div><div style="border-width: 0px; font: 17px/24px Times, serif; margin: 10px 0px 0px; padding: 0px; color: black; vertical-align: baseline; float: none; outline-width: 0px; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; background-image: none; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">The federal suit also pushes for foreclosure on property
Hart appears to have transferred illegally.</div><div style="border-width: 0px; font: 17px/24px Times, serif; margin: 10px 0px 0px; padding: 0px; color: black; vertical-align: baseline; float: none; outline-width: 0px; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; background-image: none; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Hart's answer, filed in the U.S. district court for the district of Idaho, states that assessments charged from <a style="border-width: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: black; font-family: inherit; font-size: 17px; font-style: normal; font-weight: inherit; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; float: none; outline-width: 0px;" rel="nofollow">1997-2008</a> are barred, because the U.S. "arbitrarily denied legal deductions without justification."</div><div style="border-width: 0px; font: 17px/24px Times, serif; margin: 10px 0px 0px; padding: 0px; color: black; vertical-align: baseline; float: none;
outline-width: 0px; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; background-image: none; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">According to the document, Hart believes the deductions were denied because of his refusal to turn over information to the IRS about individuals who purchased his book, "Constitutional Income: Do You Have Any?"</div><div style="border-width: 0px; font: 17px/24px Times, serif; margin: 10px 0px 0px; padding: 0px; color: black; vertical-align: baseline; float: none; outline-width: 0px; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; background-image: none; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">The answer also lists other defenses, including that the federal government's claims are barred because Hart was served a 90-day notice of deficiency while he was serving in a legislative session, violating the Idaho constitution.</div><div style="border-width: 0px; font: 17px/24px Times, serif; margin: 10px 0px 0px; padding: 0px; color:
black; vertical-align: baseline; float: none; outline-width: 0px; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; background-image: none; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">The document also states that part of the claims by the U.S. are barred due to partial satisfaction through payments Hart has made.</div><div style="border-width: 0px; font: 17px/24px Times, serif; margin: 10px 0px 0px; padding: 0px; color: black; vertical-align: baseline; float: none; outline-width: 0px; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; background-image: none; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Hart has said he has paid $150,000 in state and federal taxes in the past several years.</div><div style="border-width: 0px; font: 17px/24px Times, serif; margin: 10px 0px 0px; padding: 0px; color: black; vertical-align: baseline; float: none; outline-width: 0px; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; background-image: none; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">As
for the U.S. action of foreclosure, the document states that the action is barred by Idaho Code 55-918, extinguishing a cause of action with respect of a fraudulent transfer after four years.</div><div style="border-width: 0px; font: 17px/24px Times, serif; margin: 10px 0px 0px; padding: 0px; color: black; vertical-align: baseline; float: none; outline-width: 0px; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; background-image: none; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Hart said on Thursday he believes there have been many irregularities with numbers through the whole legal process.</div><div style="border-width: 0px; font: 17px/24px Times, serif; margin: 10px 0px 0px; padding: 0px; color: black; vertical-align: baseline; float: none; outline-width: 0px; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; background-image: none; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">"We'll go through the lawsuit process and see what happens," he said.</div><div
style="border-width: 0px; font: 17px/24px Times, serif; margin: 10px 0px 0px; padding: 0px; color: black; vertical-align: baseline; float: none; outline-width: 0px; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; background-image: none; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span style="line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;" class="yiv196904195Apple-style-span">------------------------------</span><br></div><div style="border-width: 0px; font: 17px/24px Times, serif; margin: 10px 0px 0px; padding: 0px; color: black; vertical-align: baseline; float: none; outline-width: 0px; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; background-image: none; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font class="yiv196904195Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica"><span style="line-height: normal;" class="yiv196904195Apple-style-span">I'm gonna go write me a book about how marijuana ought to be legalized for both medical and recreational purposes. Then I'm gonna go
grow me about 15 or 20 marijuana plants mixed in with the shrubs out behind my apartment. And when them Pinkertons come to bust me, I'm gonna complain that thus bust is one big political ploy brought on by my book they don't. </span></font></div><div style="border-width: 0px; font: 17px/24px Times, serif; margin: 10px 0px 0px; padding: 0px; color: black; vertical-align: baseline; float: none; outline-width: 0px; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; background-image: none; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font class="yiv196904195Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica"><span style="line-height: normal;" class="yiv196904195Apple-style-span">Yep. That's what I'm gonna do . . . right after I finish my book 'bout them speed limits on US-195 and how they unfairly intrude on my right to drive the way I see fit.</span></font></div><br><div>Seeya later, Moscow.</div><div><br></div><div>Tom Hansen</div><div>Spokane,
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