http://www.nytimes.com/2000/11/19/business/19TAXX.html # # November 19, 2000 # # Defying the I.R.S., Anti-Tax Businesses Refuse to Withhold # # By DAVID CAY JOHNSTON # # LAKE SHASTA, Calif. - Al Thompson squeezed most of his # manufacturing company's 28 employees into a conference room here # in October to say he had good news: Income taxes must be paid # by only a few Americans, mostly those working for foreign-owned # companies. So, he told the workers, they would not have to pay # income taxes ever again. His business is exempt, too, he said. # # No Social Security or Medicare taxes, either. The company was # no longer withholding taxes from their paychecks, he said, or # telling the Internal Revenue Service how much they made. [snip]