Art Farnsworth Update

I am sad to report that I am the latest member of the Tax honesty Movement to fall victim to the unlawful enforcement actions of the Internal Revenue Service, and the insensitive and

sometimes despicable actions of the judicial branch (DOJ) acting without jurisdiction, and end up locked in a cage.

I write this letter from the Federal Detention Center in Philadelphia, right across the street from the federal courthouse, where ten days ago, after having concluded my allocation (meaning “plea for mercy”) I heard the judge remind me that the federal income tax system is one of voluntary compliance before telling me he was hitting me with the maximum time amount suggested by the guidelines for not , supposedly, volunteering. You heard that right! Recall that in its brief back in the interlocutory appeal phase the government and said therein that if the idea that an assessment is a prerequisite to any possible evasion of payment charge is allowed to stand, it would have a crippling effect on the nation’s voluntary compliance tax system. Here in court, two months later, I stood and heard a federal judge admit again that it’s a voluntary system as he sent me to jail.

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