The Nation - News from Feb. 27, 1985
The Internal Revenue Service claimed a tentative victory in its battle against tax protesters who question the value of the dollar, declare themselves a church or plead the Fifth Amendment in efforts to avoid paying federal taxes. “I think in the number of total protester returns . . . we have contained the growth,” Philip E. Coates, IRS associate commissioner for operations, said at a news conference. “It has peaked,” he added, while cautioning that the protest movement “will never go away.”
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