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WE THE CONTEMPTUOUS
April 30, 2008
Robert Schulz and his We The People tax protester organization continue to fare poorly in court. Yesterday a federal judge ruled that Mr. Schulz was in contempt of court for failing to turn over the list of purchasers of "tax termination packages" from the organization.
From the Justice Department Press Release:
WASHINGTON – A federal court in New York has held Robert L. Schulz of Queensbury, N.Y., in contempt of court, the Justice Department announced today. Judge Thomas J. McAvoy of the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of New York ruled that Schulz and his We The People organization have failed to comply with the court’s earlier injunction order.The contempt order states that if Schultz and the organization fail to turn over its customer list by May 5, 2008, they will face a daily $2,000 fine, imposed retroactively from April 28, 2008. The court also noted that it would consider a government request for incarceration of Schulz if the defendants have not turned over the required information by May 12, 2008.
The injunction order required Schulz and We the People to give the Justice Department a list of the names, addresses, telephone numbers and Social Security numbers of all people and businesses to whom they had distributed materials falsely purporting to show how employers and employees could legally stop federal tax withholding. The materials were distributed in connection with a tax defier scheme called the “tax termination package.” The court previously found that Schulz “knew or had reason to know” that his statements in promoting the scheme were false.
In addition to the injunction, WTP lost a battle to keep Paypal from complying with a summons for information on WTP customers.
If "there is no law" requiring you to pay income tax, as the tax protesters like to say, the judges seem not to have gotten the word yet.
Link: Copy of contempt order.
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