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Re: Bulletin: Cypherpunks say no taxes owed by moneychanger
I know Frankin and will see him next week. His argument, which I
have around here somewhere if I could get my paper life organized,
realtes to gold and silver in certain situations. If I find it I
will reference it, otherwise I'll ask if he will post to this group.
FOT
> Date: Tue, 9 Apr 1996 21:48:17 -0400 (EDT)
> From: Alan Horowitz <[email protected]>
> To: "Frank O. Trotter, III" <[email protected]>
> Cc: [email protected]
> Subject: Re: Bulletin: Cypherpunks say no taxes owed by moneychangers!
> > Date: Mon, 8 Apr 1996 22:43:55 -5
> > From: Frank O. Trotter, III <[email protected]>
> > Aside from ecash, helping people to exchange currency is my day job
> > so I see this all the time, especially this month each year.
>
> There is a guy in Tennessee who publishes a newsletter called _The
> Moneychanger_. He is one of those Constitutionalists. He did put himself
> through hell to get acquited of an IRS charge - he is a dealer in gold
> and silver and claimed that he wasn't selling anything, only changing
> denominations of Money, with no profits. He won the federal case; the IRS
> called their buds at the Tenn Dept of Revenue and had him indicted on a
> failure-to-remit-sales-tax charge. He was convicted on that by the Jury
> but he is appealing; meanwhile he only deals with out-of-Tenn people.
>
> Which just goes to show that convictions/acquitals under a jury system
> have a lot of random-walk flavor. Further reference at the OJ Simpson
> newsgroups.
>
>
Frank O. Trotter, III - [email protected]
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