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signing false returns. Motsko has already won relief from joint
liability for their 1985-92 taxes. He now seeks relief for 1993
and 1996.
Background
Motsko graduated from high school in Minnesota in 1972 and
began working in construction. He learned over time to run the
heavy equipment used on major construction projects and in 1975
moved to Alaska, where he helped build the Trans-Alaska pipeline.
He has never taken a business course, and only learned how to
balance a checkbook in 2002.
He met Cheryl Manns in 1982, and they married the next year.
They have two children: a son who is now grown and a daughter
still in high school who lives with Motsko. Motsko and Manns
earned their living from two businesses that they cofounded. The
first changed names as it changed its line of work--starting out
as Independent Excavating, and then becoming Evergreen
Construction before finally settling on its current name of
Evergreen Trucking. The last shift began when Motsko bought a
truck and lowboy (a wheeled bed on which a driver places cargo to
be hauled by the truck), but the move was ill-timed. The Alaskan
construction industry went into recession in the 1980s when oil
prices collapsed, and the trucking business followed.
Evergreen’s business fizzled and, unable to afford a driver,
Motsko took over the driving himself.
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