Trying to claim that you aren't a US citizen and therefore the IRS and DOJ have no authortity over you isn't going to work...
Source: KUTV.com
BOISE, Idaho (AP) An Idaho landscape artist whose work is in the collection of billionaire potato baron J-R Simplot and Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen has been sentenced to six months in jail for tax evasion.
John Thurman Horejs and his wife Elaine of Burley had pleaded guilty in June to federal tax charges after acknowledging they had evaded more than 170-thousand dollars in income taxes and obstructed internal revenue laws.
Besides prison, he also was sentenced yesterday to one year supervised detention and his wife was sentenced to five years probation.
Court records showed the pair falsely claimed they were not U-S citizens, filed false trust documents and falsely claimed the paintings seized by the I-R-S were owned by a trust.
I-R-S agent for Idaho, Paul Camacho, says the case shows, as he put it, "it is an illusion that income taxes can somehow be dodged.''
Additional Info:
DOJ Release announcing the indictment
DOJ Release announcing the guilty plea
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