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IRS Agents: “The Tax is a Fraud”

“No Answers, No Taxes” 

Annapolis, MD, September 15, 2003. Tomorrow, September 16, three former IRS Agents will be on hand at a Treasury Department press conference on “abusive tax avoidance,” to accuse the Treasury Department of being the abuser and to provide the other side of the story. 

On September 12, 2003, the Treasury Department issued a press release with the heading,
“MEDIA ADVISORY: TREASURY, IRS AND STATES TO ANNOUNCE NEW PARTNERSHIP
TO FIGHT ABUSIVE TAX AVOIDANCE ON TUESDAY; NEW YORK, CALIFORNIA, OTHER STATE OFFICIALS ATTEND.” 

Treasury’s press conference is scheduled for 11 a.m. Tuesday, September 16 at the Department of Treasury Media Room (Room 4121) at the Main Treasury Building at 1500 Pennsylvania Avenue NW, Washington, DC. The former agents will arrive early to hand out their press kits. They will hold a sidewalk press conference immediately following Treasury’s press conference. 

The three former agents who will be making special trips to DC for the event are Joseph Banister, a CPA from California (who was asked to resign from his job as a Special Agent with the Criminal Investigation Division of the Internal Revenue Service, merely because he submitted a research report to his superiors and respectfully asked his superiors for answers to certain questions regarding the legal authority behind the internal revenue law), John Turner from California (who voluntarily resigned from his decade long position as a Revenue Officer with the IRS, after concluding that the IRS did not have the authority to require him to do what he was asked to do – enforce the internal revenue laws by issuing assessments and seizing bank accounts and property from people who did not pay the tax), and Sherry Jackson, a CPA and certified fraud examiner from Georgia (who voluntarily resigned from her job as a Revenue Agent with the IRS and who has concluded that the internal revenue law is a fraud). 

The former agents have joined a nation-wide Petition process that has been seeking answers from the government to certain questions regarding the origin and enforcement of the internal revenue law. In the absence of any response to their Petitions, the “Tax Honest Movement” is now encouraging people to retain their tax money until the government answers those questions. 

“The government has long been abusing the People by abusing its constitutionally limited powers to tax,” said Joseph Banister. “Now the government is compounding that abuse by ignoring the People’s constitutionally guaranteed Right to honest answers to their Petitions for Redress of those grievances.”  

The former agents will announce that it is the government that is the abuser, not the People and that the People have the Right to enforce their Rights by retaining their money, that is, “No Answers, No Taxes.”

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