Margaret Milner Richardson loses her breakfast...
From the Wall Street Journal Wednesday October 2, Page 1:
Use of the internet to attract tax-dodgers rings alarm bells at the IRS. The rapidly expanding new worlds of the internet and electronic money are stirring deep concern at the IRS. "We know that some foriegn banks are now using the internet to solicit new customers with promises of complete anonymity and a haven from all taxes," IRS commissioner Margaret Milner Richardson said. She said this issue is being "carefully monitored" by tax administrators around the world. Ms. Richardson, in a recent speech, cited a world-wide-web advertisement offering a "one-of-a-kind book" covering topics such as, "Banking in Silence" and offering information on setting up an offshore trust that "could include protection from a large IRS assessment." Ms. Richardson's reaction: "I almost take that personally." Another ad touts "excellent interest rates, offered in a stable, tax-free environment...Clients communicate with the bank any time from anywhere via the internet." Ms. Richardson said: "How would you like to be responsible for administering tax laws and have to read these ads over breakfast?" Cheers, Bob Hettinga ----------------- Robert Hettinga (rah@shipwright.com) e$, 44 Farquhar Street, Boston, MA 02131 USA "'Bart Bucks' are not legal tender." -- Punishment, 100 times on a chalkboard, for Bart Simpson The e$ Home Page: http://www.vmeng.com/rah/
On Thu, 3 Oct 1996, Robert Hettinga wrote:
From the Wall Street Journal Wednesday October 2, Page 1:
Use of the internet to attract tax-dodgers rings alarm bells at the IRS.
Shh, be vewy vewy quiet, I've got a guy subscribing to my filtered list from the IRS. :) (I'm not forwarding tax evasion stuff since it's not cpunx related, but still...) ============================================================================= + ^ + | Ray Arachelian |FL| KAOS KERAUNOS KYBERNETOS |==/|\== \|/ |sunder@brainlink.com|UL|__Nothing_is_true,_all_is_permitted!_|=/\|/\= <--+-->| ------------------ |CG|What part of 'Congress shall make no |=\/|\/= /|\ | "A toast to Odin, |KA| law abridging the freedom of speech'|==\|/== + v + | God of pretzles!" |AK| do you not understand? |======= ===================http://www.brainlink.COM/~sunder/========================= ActiveX! ActiveX! Format Hard drive? Just say yes!
At 5:01 pm -0400 10/11/96, Ray Arachelian wrote:
Shh, be vewy vewy quiet, I've got a guy subscribing to my filtered list from the IRS. :) (I'm not forwarding tax evasion stuff since it's not cpunx related, but still...)
Ah. Somehow, this reminds me of an old Warner Brothers' cartoon spoof of Wagnerian opera, with Bugs as Brunhilde, and Elmer sproinging along behind singing "Kill the Wabbit, Kill the Wabbit, ..." etc., to the tune of "The Ride of the Valkyries". If you do a "who cypherpunks" to majordomo@toad.com, you see all sorts of fun addresses. (Hi, Elvis!) Hell, I've got feds and spooks all over e$pam, my filtered *super*set of cypherpunks and a bunch of other e$ lists, and that's to just 200 folks or so. Also, if you think cypherpunks is a firehose, you should see e$pam. I'm probably the only filter of cypherpunks that is actually *bigger*. ("It don't say 'e$pam' until Bob says it says 'e$pam'"). Kawika Daguio of the ABA tells me he has his secretary print it out every morning and put it in a *binder* so he can read it. Hell, I zinged that Maggy Ric^h^h^hhards^hon breakfast puppy right out there to e$pam *first*, before it went to cypherpunks, even. More fun with numbers, Bob Hettinga ----------------- Robert Hettinga (rah@shipwright.com) e$, 44 Farquhar Street, Boston, MA 02131 USA "The cost of anything is the foregone alternative" -- Walter Johnson The e$ Home Page: http://www.vmeng.com/rah/
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