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Questioners
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Robert Schulz
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Chairman of We the People Foundation for Constitutional
Education. Mr. Schulz is a veteran of more
than 25 years in the struggle of citizen vigilance
over government.
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| Chris Hansen |
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He is a legal scholar and an author who has been
researching income tax laws for several years.
He has written a 2300 page book summarizing
his findings. It's available for free on the
internet. It's called "The Great IRS Hoax:
Why We Don't Owe Income Tax."
He serves his country as a chief in the U.S.
Navy. As a data communication engineer he wires
the Navy. He designs and tests the computer
networks used by all of the U.S. Navy's war
ships.
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| Joseph Banister |
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He has 15 years of experience in accounting,
tax and finance. Is a certified public accountant
and has been so certified since 1991. From 1993
until 1999 he served as a special agent in the IRS
Criminal Investigation Division. As a special agent
his duties included investigating criminal violations
of the federal income tax and money laundering laws.
During his five and a half years he was appointed
the asset forfeiture coordinator and also the organized
crime drug enforcement task force coordinator for
the Central California District for the IRS.
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| John Turner |
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Mr. Turner served with the United States Army
in positions of trust holding top secret clearances.
He accepted a job with the Internal Revenue Service
as a revenue officer in 1987 and worked for
IRS for 10 years until 1997. Revenue officers
are agents who collect delinquent taxes through
distraint actions. That is the power to levy
and seize.
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| Larry Becraft |
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Mr. Becraft is an Alabama lawyer. In May of 1992 he graduated with
honors from Sanford University. In May of 1995 he graduated from
Cumberland School of Law at Sanford University. In September of
1995 he was admitted to practice before the courts in Alabama. Since
then he has been admitted to practice before the United States Supreme
Court, all the federal appellate courts except the First of the
D.C. circuits and a number of U.S. District Courts. He represent
numerous clients in tax related criminal matters.
He is also general counsel for the Wallace Institute.
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| Sherry Jackson |
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Ms. Jackson is a certified public accountant
since 1987. From 1988 to 1995 she was an Internal
Revenue agent with the Atlanta district. She currently
manages her own CPA firm in the Sown Mountain area
and a certified fraud examiner.
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| Bill Benson |
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Mr. Benson is a retired investigator
for the Criminal Investigation Division for the
Illinois Department of Revenue |
| Paul Chappell |
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A resident of Fredericksburg, Virginia, Mr. Chappell has been a
member of the bar of the State of Maryland since 1954. He became
interested in the subject of federal taxation when he was sent by
a local law firm to
Capitol Hill to cover House Ways and Means
and Senate Finance Committee hearings in drafting
the 1954 Internal Revenue Code. After some
17 years of government experience serving first
as a clerk to a Tax Court judge and subsequently
in the office of Chief Counsel of Internal
Revenue he entered private practice in 1973.
He has had an active practice which majored
and emphasized federal tax cases, representing
taxpayers before the Internal Revenue Service
and in the federal courts for approximately
28 years. He became very much interested in
the last two years in the subject of Internal
Revenue Service procedural matters. His major
concern has risen over such matters as violations
of IRS regulations by the service; violations
of statutory requirements by the IRS; disregard
of their own math and records system; manipulation
of data on the IRS master record system; ignoring
statutory requirements for making proper assessment
of taxes; the ignoring of requirements for
collection matters such as the enforcement
of IRS liens, levies and property seizures;
and also a great deal of concern about the
current trend toward abusive searches and seizures.
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| Noel Spaid |
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Ms. Spaid is from San Diego, California
and an attorney since 1980. She represents litigants
in the U.S. tax courts. |
| Irwin Schiff |
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Mr. Schiff is a best selling author and
one of the country's leading experts on the constitutionality
of the income tax system |
| Victoria Osborn |
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From Colorado Springs, Colorado, Ms. Osborn's
question is "who audits the IRS?"
She is a forensic accountant; a graduate from
the University of Colorado with a concentration
in both accounting and finance and has been
working in the business sector for most of
her career. She became interested in the daily
operations of the IRS accounting after watching
the 1997 and 1998 Senate Finance Committee
hearings.
She began studying the IRS operational manuals
that became available to the general public
as a result of the Restructuring and Reform
Act that was passed in 1998.
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