Confessions of a Radical Tax Protestor An Inside Expose of the Tax Resistance Movement

by Williams, Larry R.

• ISBN13: 9780470915769
• ISBN10: 0470915765
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2011-03-29
• Publisher: Wiley

Summary

The memoir of futures trader, investor seminar guru, and tax protestor Larry WilliamsFrom the Boston Tea Party to the modern Tea Party movement, history is replete with examples of organized resistance to paying taxes. But it's not just large groups, as Henry David Thoreau was briefly jailed for refusing to pay taxes. Confessions of a Radical Tax Protestor: An Inside ExposŽ of the Tax Resistance Movement is the true story of another famous tax protestor-Larry Williams. From his arrest in Australia and extradition to the United States to his victorious fight against the IRS and the U.S. Department of the Treasury, the book Reveals the seedy underworld of tax avoidance specialists Explains the difference between honest tax protests and illegal estate planning strategies and tax havens Details why the famous money manager, high profile Libertarian, and father of actress Michelle Williams ultimately agreed to do PSAs for the IRS denouncing tax protests on an individual basisFrom South Africa to Australia to the United States, Confessions of a Radical Tax Protestor is the incredible true story of one man's victorious fight for what he believed in.

Author Biography

Larry R. Williams is theall-time top winner of the Robbins World Cup Championship of Futures Trading, an honor awarded him for having turned $10,000 into $1 million in less than twelve months. One of the most widely quoted and followed money managers and advisors worldwide, he has been featured in Barron's, the Wall Street Journal, Forbes, and Fortune, among other prestigiouspublications. Famous for his rebellious nature and love of adventure, Larry travelled illegally to Saudi Arabia, in 1988, in search of Mt. Sinai, a story recounted in the bestselling The Gold of Exodus by Howard Blum.

Table of Contents

Introduction	p. 1
Don't Tax Me, Tax the Man behind the Tree	p. 11
Born a Tax Protestor	p. 27
Lost in the Desert	p. 39
Life on the Run Around	p. 63
Getting Out from Down Under	p. 87
The Tax Resistance Movement and Its Legal ôHelpö	p. 107
Taking the Plunge … over a Campfire	p. 125
When a Fair Share Is Not So Fair	p. 137
The Perfect Tax Solution	p. 145
If at First You Don't Succeed …	p. 159
Turning the Wheels of Justice in Your Favor	p. 169
Sharpening the Ax	p. 179
At Last, Trial Time	p. 187
A Workable Solution	p. 201
Appendix: Right to Speedy Trial Filing	p. 217
Acknowledgments	p. 225
Index	p. 227
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