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How to Survive the IRS:
My Battles Against Goliath
by Michael Louis Minns

Barricade Books, March 2001, ISBN 156980170

PUBLISHERS WEEKLY GIVES MICHAEL MINNS' NEW BOOK A THUMBS UP: "IRS agents lie, commit crimes, and destroy families," maintains attorney Michael Minns (The Underground Lawyer), who would like to see our federal tax-collecting institution disbanded. In How to Survive the IRS: My Battles Against Goliath, which features a preface by U.S. Rep. Ron Paul (who has voted for the abolition of the IRS), Minns provides a brief history of taxation in the U.S., urges radical reform and memorably recounts his confrontations with the IRS on behalf of clients. The most practical part of this inflammatory and informative work is the description of 100 tax secrets."

--Publishers Weekly, week of March 19, 2001

Michael Louis Minns' latest work is one book the IRS would prefer you did not read: a book that chronicles horrific incidents of IRS wrongdoing. Readers will learn the many ways that IRS agents have bent the rules, confusing, misleading, and abusing taxpayers' civil rights -- in violation of their own tax code! -- as they applied their GOLIATH power to intimidate and overpower taxpayers.

But for every Goliath, there's a David.

HOW TO SURVIVE THE IRS: My Battles Against Goliath is a real eye-opener, and will infuriate readers as it educates them on the countless ways IRS agents have taken advantage of taxpayers, planted or altered evidence, and misinterpreted tax code. Written in layperson's language instead of legalese, the book chronicles many of Minns' most famous court cases, where you will read about...

IRS agents who stormed a taxpayer's homes, armed with laser-sighted weapons

IRS agents who sprayed mace on family members and traumatized minor children

How an IRS agent edited the interview tapes of an audit

IRS agents who lied on reports, and stole or altered tax records

In addition, you'll learn the truth about...

How little the IRS really knows about its own tax code

The many ways the IRS violates taxpayer's civil rights

What you can do if you are charged or wrongly accused by the IRS!

And it could happen to you. After all, none of the above incidents was provoked, and the most serious of charges brought by the IRS was income tax evasion.

HOW TO SURVIVE THE IRS: My Battles Against Goliath will also help readers gain a simple understanding of little-known tax rulings, tax shelters, offshore banking, and how to best stay OFF the IRS radar screen.

Minns is also the author of The Underground Lawyer, about to be released in its third printing (and a brand new edition) from Gopher Publications. He is now working on a third book, Polishing the Bar, which will cite many of his actions against attorneys who abused or misrepresented their clients.