- 3 - On March 25, 1996, petitioner wrote to respondent stating that she was not liable for income tax because she was a “state sovereign” and not a citizen or resident of the District of Columbia. Respondent sent a notice of deficiency to petitioner for 1994 on January 17, 1997, in which respondent determined that petitioner had a deficiency of $13,257 and was liable for additions to tax of $3,257 under section 6651(a) and $670 under section 6654(a). Petitioner received the notice of deficiency but did not file a petition in the Tax Court for 1994. On February 13, 1997, petitioner returned the notice of deficiency to respondent stamped “Refused for CAUSE--NOT dishonored!” Petitioner attached to the notice of deficiency a letter in which she requested copies of the assessment and the delegation order from the Secretary of the Treasury to the Director of the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) service center who signed the notice of deficiency. On April 21, 1997, petitioner wrote to respondent stating that she was a “Sovereign Citizen of the Florida Republic”, she did not reside or earn income in “any Territory, Possession, Instrumentality, or Enclave” under the jurisdiction of the United States, and she was “not a citizen of the Federal United States subject to its jurisdiction.” On May 6, 1997, respondent wrote to petitioner that the information in petitioner’s letters didPage: Previous 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 Next
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