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The current Acting Assistant Attorney General is David A. Hubbert, the division's incumbent Deputy Assistant Attorney General (DAAG) for Civil Trial Matters. [ 2 ] On February 4, 2020, President Donald Trump nominated Richard E. Zuckerman as Assistant Attorney General to head the Tax Division, [ 3 ] a post that requires Senate confirmation.
Citizens for Tax Justice (CTJ) is a Washington, D.C.–based think tank and advocacy group founded in 1979 focusing on tax policies and their impact. [2] CTJ's work focuses primarily on federal tax policy, but also analyzes state and local tax policies.
President Calvin Coolidge signing the income tax bill which established the U.S. Board of Tax Appeals; Andrew Mellon is the third figure from the right.. The first incarnation of the Tax Court was the "U.S. Board of Tax Appeals", established by Congress in the Revenue Act of 1924 [4] [5] (also known as the Mellon tax bill) in order to address the increasing complexity of tax-related litigation.
The Department of Justice may obtain a federal court ruling to the effect that a specific tax-protester activity constitutes the promotion of an illegal tax shelter under Internal Revenue Code section 6700 (26 U.S.C. § 6700), and may obtain a court order prohibiting that activity under 26 U.S.C. § 7408, as it did in the case of United States v.
Edward Lewis Brown (born 1942) and his wife, Elaine Alice Brown (born c. 1940), residents of the state of New Hampshire, gained national news media attention as tax protesters in early 2007 for refusing to pay the U.S. federal income tax and subsequently refusing to surrender to federal government agents after having been convicted of tax crimes.
Similarly, tax protester Tom Cryer, who was acquitted of willful failure to file U.S. Federal income tax returns in a timely fashion, [87] argued that "the law does not tax [a person's] wages", and that the federal government cannot tax "[m]oney that you earned [and] paid for with your labor and industry" because "the Constitution does not ...
[45] [46] Rose wrote a 79-page discussion on his views, and sold a video entitled Theft by Deception. Tax blogger Walter Olson described his theory as "folk law", arguments that were developed from outside the legal profession. [47] The arguments made by Wesley Snipes were based, in part upon his theory. [48]
Median household income and taxes State Tax Burdens 2022 % of income. State tax levels indicate both the tax burden and the services a state can afford to provide residents. States use a different combination of sales, income, excise taxes, and user fees. Some are levied directly from residents and others are levied indirectly.