Senior Judge Orders A Website Selling Tax Evasion Advice to Close
30th Aug 2007
Senior judge Thomas J. McAvoy in the Northern District of New York has ordered a website that sells materials stating that individuals can legally stop paying taxes has been shut down.
Judge McAvoy also ordered that the names, addresses, telephone numbers, e-mail addresses and Social Security numbers of every person who received materials on how to stop paying taxes be turned over to the government.
The website Wethepeoplefoundation.org was operated by Robert L. Schulz of Queensbury, N.Y.
The judge said that because Mr. Schulz was taking $20 payments for a package of materials that supposedly showed how to legally stop paying taxes, the Web site could be shut down as commercial speech that urged criminal conduct.
Even if the Web site was not commercial in nature, Judge McAvoy said, it could be shut because people who followed the advice at the Web site engaged in criminal conduct.
Either way I think they wanted the website shut down altogether, after all can you imagine if no one had to pay taxes???
Source: nytimes.com
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