Late last week, (October 28^th ) the USDC in Sacramento ordered the release of business owner Al Thompson who had been held in Sacramento County jail since August 9^th on a federal civil contempt warrant issued for Thompson's refusal to sign false tax forms for his business.

Several years ago, Thompson, an outspoken California business owner, ceased withholding taxes from his employee's paychecks and steadfastly refused to file income tax forms or returns because, according to Thompson, the law contains no specific provision that requires him to do so. Many attorneys, former IRS agents and legal researchers -- (including this Foundation), are on the public record as agreeing with Thompson's claims.

Despite being arrested earlier last April on the same issue, Thompson refused to fill out the tax forms the federal judge ordered him to submit asserting that, given his understanding of the law, he would be committing perjury for providing false information under oath.

Despite Thompson's motions to the district court requesting the IRS to provide a formal certification, sworn under penalty of perjury, that he was an “employer” and a “person” liable under the income tax laws, none was ever produced. 

 

Al Thompson

Thompson is one of several American IRS-protesting business owners that appeared in a We The People Foundation full-page ad that appeared in the nationwide edition of USA Today.
Go to www.GiveMeliberty.org/ads  to see all the WTP USA Today & New York Times ads.

One of the other employers featured in the Ad, Texas business owner Dick Simkanin, was convicted in January by a Fort Worth jury for asserting the same legal position. At Simkanin's trial, which was described by attendees as a total sham, Simkanin was not allowed to present a single legal exhibit in his defense.
His case is currently under appeal.

Click Here to access the “blog” entry made by Al Thompson where he personally describes his ordeal, including lack of paper and pencil, and the 22-hour daily “lock-downs” in his two-man cell.

Click Here to review our previous article about the trial of business owner Dick Simkanin.

Click Here to access our previous coverage about the Truth-in-Taxation Hearing where attorneys, tax law researchers and former IRS Agents publicly testified about the income tax fraud.

Click Here to get your copy of the WTP Truth-in-Taxation Hearing record -- two full days of video testimony of attorneys, researchers and former IRS agents. The CD-ROM version comes with  with hundreds of legal exhibits.