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MAYBE HE HAD THE WRONG DECODER RING

October 28, 2004

From a Justice Department press release:

   The Justice Department announced today
   that it has sued a Cincinnati-area man
   in federal court, seeking to halt an 
   allegedly fraudulent tax scheme. The 
   lawsuit alleges that Richard W. 
   Standring, of Batavia, Ohio, gives 
   seminars at which he falsely claims 
   that he can help customers “decode” 
   IRS records to help them establish 
   that they need not file federal income
   tax returns or pay federal income 
   taxes. Standring, who also does 
   business as “VIP Sales” and operates 
   several websites to promote his 
   schemes, allegedly calls his scheme a
   “Document Decoding Service.”

We await a useful document decoding service -- for example, one that will explain the Qualified Production Activity Income deduction in the new tax act. Or documents in our handwriting.

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