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Time To Let Kent Hovind Go Home?

Time To Let Kent Hovind Go Home?

This “renewed” contempt order, made at the end of the petitioner’s 10 year sentence after the government has liquidated the properties which form the basis for the 2012 injunction, creates a rebuttable presumption that this July 8, 2014 motions is retaliation against the petitioner for him exercising his constitutional right to redress and appeal in furtherance of exposing the government’s aforementioned misconduct.

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Pulling IRS Into Your Business Dispute Might Not Be Such A Good Idea

Pulling IRS Into Your Business Dispute Might Not Be Such A Good Idea

According to the decision, Mr. Turnoy and Mr. Shiner had an agreement to equally divide the commissions on the sale of certain life insurance policies.  The policies were issued in November 2012.  Mr. Turnoy claimed that the commissions totaled $298,119.81.  Mr. Shiner believed that there was more.  Mr. Turnoy issued a check in the amount of $149,059.91 to Mr. Shiner in December of 2012.  It doesn’t seem that rounding the half cent in his favor made Mr. Shiner happy.  He was upset about something else.

The check bore a restrictive endorsement that indicated that acceptance of it would constitute full satisfaction of the disputed debt.  Mr. Shiner was not going for that.  Mr. Shiner started a lawsuit and returned the check.  By that time Mr. Turnoy had already issued him a 1099.

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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.