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To: MSI who wrote (511)	11/15/2002 11:11:34 AM
From: i-node	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 7936

I'm glad you're chipping in your share Your welcome. Maybe I'm chipping in some of yours, too ... Uh, I think I'm pretty much paying my cut.... A lot of professionals who's income comes from dealing with tax issues defend the current ridiculous complexity, while cursing it. The income of those professionals is at stake, and were the tax system made rationale, would lose significant business. A lot of them, that's true. You may remember I'm the one who suggested a NST on this thread. While I once practiced as a CPA, I now make my living developing software in a field unrelated to taxation, so I have no built-in bias toward keeping the system complex. Since you claim to be authoritative, what is it about Lucas v. Earl and Helvering v Horst that makes those cases b.s. ? I don't claim to be authoritative; I merely said your cites weren't (authoritative cites are the Code, the Regs, or appropriate cases). Those cases aren't BS; it is just BS to try and apply them in such a way as to support the position of the tax protester. In general, these as well as lots of other cases have been pointed to as reasons why the Internal Revenue Service is not legally allowed to assess & collect. These cases are, in effect, taken out of context by people who don't understand them. This is the reason competent professionals don't subscribe to these BS arguments. At least one popular author of tax protester material has spent time in prison (something only the most egregious tax frauds do) for his fraud. Of course, I'm sure the courts were stacked against him.