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Why the government is eager to imprison Wesley Snipes

By Douglas A. Berman

Forbes.com has this new piece, headlined Wesley Snipes And The TaxDef War," which spotlights why the government sees the Snipes case as one of the most important tax evasion cases in recent memory:When Wesley Trent Snipes is sentenced Thursday in an Ocala, Fla., courtroom for willfully failing to file federal income tax returns, more than the 45-year-old star's freedom will be on the line. Also at risk will be the government's efforts to staunch the spread of what it recently re-branded "tax defiers." Tax defiers ? or "tax protesters" as they've traditionally been known ? glom onto one kooky, discredited theory or another as to why the income tax is illegal or doesn't apply to them personally or doesn't cover their normal sources of income...continue to full post

Full post as published by Sentencing Law and Policy on April 23, 2008 (boomark / email).