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Title: TOMMY CRYER - Local attorney acquitted on federal income tax charges
Source: The Shreveport Times
URL Source: http://www.shreveporttimes.com/apps ... 3/NEWS03/707130321/1062/NEWS03
Published: Jul 13, 2007
Author: Loresha Wilson
Post Date: 2007-07-13 03:50:10 by Uncle Bill
Keywords: Abolish, The, IRS
Views: 1693
Comments: 4

Local attorney acquitted on federal income tax charges

Cryer stopped filing income taxes more than 10 years ago

Shreveport Times
July 13, 2007
By Loresha Wilson
ljwilson@gannett.com

A Shreveport attorney who has challenged the government for years on the legality of filing federal income taxes has been acquitted on charges he failed to file returns.

A federal jury unanimously found Tommy Cryer not guilty this week on two misdemeanor counts of failure to file.

And according to Cryer, the prosecution dismissed two felony charges of tax evasion prior to trial.

Attempts by The Times on Thursday to reach U.S. Attorney Donald Washington or Bill Flanagan, first assistant U.S. attorney, were not successful. Calls made to the two were not immediately returned.

"The court could not find a law that makes me liable or makes my revenues taxable," Cryer said. "The Supreme Court has ruled that the government cannot impose an income tax on anything but the profits and gains. When you work for someone you give your service and labor in exchange for money, so everything you make is not profit or gain. You put something into it."

Cryer was indicted last year on two counts of tax evasion. The indictment alleged he evaded payment of $73,000 in income tax to the Internal Revenue Service during 2000 and 2001.

Cryer created a trust listing himself as the trustee, and received payments of dividends, interest and stock income to that trust, according to the indictment. He also was accused of concealing his receipt of the sources of income from the IRS by failing to file a tax return on behalf of that trust.

"I determined that my personal earnings were not 100 percent profits, some were income," Cryer said. "I refuse to file, I refuse to pay unless they can show me I have a lawful reason to pay."

"What I earned was my own personal labor. I am giving something in exchange. I'm giving my property and I don't belong to anyone else."

Cryer says he stopped filing returns more than 10 years ago after he investigated claims that income tax was a sham. He contends the law doesn't actually tax personal earning.

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GREAT VICTORY OVER IRS - Tom Cryer - The prosecution could not state any law making the average American liable for the income tax

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#1. To: christine, Zipporah, Jethro Tull, robin, Fred Mertz, RickyJ, richard9151, HOUNDDAWG, wakeup, who knows what evil, (#0)

BTTT

Press 1 for English, Press 2 for English, Press 3 for deportation

Death of Habeas Corpus: “Your words are lies, Sir.”

Uncle Bill  posted on  2007-07-13   3:59:42 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#2. To: Uncle Bill, christine (#1)

But, if people stop fearing the IRS who's gonna pay my soshul Skuratee?

I wish I could get on a jury for one of these dam commies.

Ah paid my money in, the gummint waz sposed to invest it and ah want mah dam check!

HOUNDDAWG  posted on  2007-07-13   6:51:33 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#3. To: Uncle Bill (#0)

Good on Tom Cryer...what a name.

Fred Mertz  posted on  2007-07-13   8:54:03 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#4. To: Uncle Bill (#0) (Edited)

I am happy for Becraft and Cryer and applaud their efforts to dismantle the IRS fraud. I'm interested to see the filings of all parties to this case and also would like to find transcripts whether audio or printed.

Whatever it takes to get Americans to quit financing police states and wars is a blessing.

Help me find materials relevant to this case if you can !

Contemplate the mangled bodies of your countrymen, and then say 'what should be the reward of such sacrifices?' Bid us and our posterity bow the knee, supplicate the friendship, plough, sow, and reap, to glut the avarice of the men who have let loose on us the dogs of war to riot in our blood and hunt us from the face of the earth?

If ye love wealth better than liberty, the tranquility of servitude than the animated contest of freedom, go from us in peace. We ask not your counsels or arms. Crouch down and lick the hands which feed you. May your chains sit lightly upon you, and may posterity forget that you were our countrymen!”

noone222  posted on  2007-07-13   9:01:56 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


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