Evelyn Jenkins; Anti-Income Tax Activist

Evelyn Jenkins, 61, who joined her husband, radio talk show host Bill Jenkins, in arguing that income taxes were unconstitutional. In 1986, Jenkins and her husband were ordered to perform 200 hours of community service and to pay back taxes for 1979, 1980 and 1981. They charged that federal and state income taxes are unconstitutional on the grounds the 16th Amendment providing for taxes was never properly ratified. In 1989, after the couple still refused to pay and also declined to file returns for the years 1982, 1983, 1984 and 1985, he was jailed and she was given three years probation. At that time, they owed $500,000 in back state taxes. Evelyn Jenkins served on the board of the Newhall Community Hospital and was active in the American Cancer Society and San Fernando Valley schools. A native of Chicago, she was educated at Northwestern University. On Sunday in Sylmar of liver and renal failure.