Gregory Chandler on Income Tax Litigation

An interesting case I came about last week concerning income tax litigation. In United States v. Hairston, 819 F. 2d 971 (10th Cir. 1987) the Court affirmed convictions for willful failure to file tax returns, holding that the defendant's testimony concerning the impact that tax protests literature and seminars had on his understanding of tax law requirements was more probative than the literature itself and that there was no error in excluding the literature on the grounds that it might confuse the jury.


GREGORY CHANDLER, Attorney at Law