U.S. Supreme Court Overturns Tax Protester’s Convictions

Mr. Lanting, a member of South Holland Protestant Reformed Church, is a practicing attorney. It was therefore error for the trial judge to instruct the jury to disregard evidence of Cheek's understanding that . . . he was not a person required to file a return or to pay income taxes and that wages are not taxable income, as incredible as such misunderstandings of and beliefs about the law might be.  Cheek v. U.S., Supreme Court (1991) Tax Protesters The tax protest movement is a loosely...