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James Traficant: “When the IRS takes the taxpayer into civil court, the taxpayer is considered guilty, guilty, guilty. Unbelievable in…”

On the recordJuly 11, 1997
When the IRS takes the taxpayer into civil court, the taxpayer is considered guilty, guilty, guilty. Unbelievable in America, where you are innocent until proven guilty. Not with the IRS. You are guilty, guilty, guilty. And the IRS says, even though 97 percent of the American people want the burden of proof changes in a civil tax case, they say ``no,'' it will cost too much money, Congress. Let me submit here, if we applied the IRS thinking to the Constitution, the IRS would throw out the Bill of Rights. I think it is time to tell the IRS, ``Audit this.'' Cosponsor H.R. 367; take our government back. Taxpayers shall be innocent. If the IRS takes them to court, they should have the facts to do so.
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James Traficant
Ohio
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govinfo.gov

Editor's note · Context

Addressing the burden of proof in civil tax cases and the IRS's treatment of taxpayers.

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