Association For Honest Attorneys Has No Attorney Members And No Longer Has Tax-Exempt Status
Ironically, Ms. Farr’s approach is similar to what happens with some attorneys when they end up in Tax Court. Rather than going through the tedious process of documenting transactions as an accountant would, they make arguments about process. That is what happened with the great F Lee Bailey Some good accounting and a better audit trail might have been the salvation of AHA. Rather than an honest lawyer, perhaps AHA could have been saved by a reasonably competent accountant.
I don’t doubt Ms. Farr’s word when she says she will appeal, so I will be on the lookout for the next decision in this saga.
NWTRCC Wants Tax Day To Be Peace Day
The organization National War Tax Resistance was formed in 1969 as a response to the surge in interest in income and telephone tax resistance, and at its peak had 192 chapters. War tax resisters also sought support from organizations like Peacemakers and War Resisters League. Many resisters gave their taxes to alternative funds that redirected the money to community organizations more deserving of financial support.
During the length of the war, many prominent individuals took up resistance. For example, in 1968, the Writers and Editors War Tax Protest took out ads in three publications, listing writers and editors who pledged to refuse to pay the income tax and/or telephone tax. Signers included Howard Zinn, Allen Ginsberg, Grace Paley, Frances Fox Piven, Adrienne Rich, Helen and Scott Nearing, Kurt Vonnegut, and Philip and Daniel Berrigan.
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Over and over again courts have said that there is nothing sinister in so arranging one’s affairs as to keep taxes as low as possible. Everybody does so, rich or poor; and all do right, for nobody owes any public duty to pay more than the law demands: taxes are enforced exactions, not voluntary contributions. To demand more in the name of morals is mere cant.