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ROSE MOVED INDOORS FOR 15 MONTHS

November 29, 2005

We missed this over Thanksgiving break:

Notorious tax protestor Larken Rose of Hollywood, Pennsylvania was sentenced in federal district court to 15 months imprisonment for failing to file tax returns for the years 1998 -2002, the Justice Department and Internal Revenue Service (IRS) announced today. In compliance with Judge Michael M. Baylson’s admonition following Rose’s conviction in August, Rose submitted delinquent tax returns for the years 1997-2004 and paid a substantial deposit to the IRS toward his outstanding tax liability. The court sentenced Rose to one year of supervised release following his prison term and ordered Rose to pay a fine of $10,000 and all taxes, interest, and penalties he owes to the IRS.

Mr. Rose has long been a fixture in the Tax Protest "Tax Honesty" movement. A former lurker in the misc.taxes usenet newsgroup, Mr. Rose evolved with the internet and even testified on behalf of Richard Simkanin, they guy who bought an ad in USA Today boasting that he had left the tax system.

Mr. Rose was a proponent of the silly "Section 861" argument that says U.S. income isn't subject to income taxes. While the sentence would seem to settle that issue, some slow learners still struggle with the obvious.

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