Appellate Practice
Aug. 11, 2004
Author Can't Sell Tax-Evasion Schemes
SAN FRANCISCO - You can't dodge the tax collector. You can't sell books touting your scheme to encourage other people to try it, either. So said a panel of the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, in a ruling Monday upholding a preliminary injunction preventing Las Vegas tax opponent Irwin Schiff from merchandizing the "zero-income" tax theories outlined in his book, "The Federal Mafia: How the Government Illegally Imposes and Unlawfully Collects Income Taxes," and other tax-avoidance packages.
So said a panel of the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, in a ruling Monday upholding a preliminary injunction pr...
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