Maine Revenue Services shakes down innocent people who don’t even own the taxes. MRS is going back at least as far as 13 years demanding ‘proof’ of taxes paid under new ‘interpretations’ retroactively changing tax policy without legislative approval. It imposes ‘estimated’ taxes and punitive double-digit ‘interest’ plus ‘penalties’ doubling the take on transactions that never occurred. It threatens to seize property worth far more than the alleged tax, also intimidates people with the false claim that they have no right to appeal (not that an objective hearing is possible), deliberately runs up legal costs with abusive litigation tactics, demands under state law that the victim must prove his innocence, maintains and operates off an ‘enemies list’, smears victims who dare to contest or speak out against the agency, and stonewalls state senators investigating complaints of abuse. A specialty is bullying non-residents under a strategy called “exporting taxes”. See http://MaineTaxAbuse.org.

This state-sponsored organized crime is in addition to Maine’s extraordinary high taxes that long ago killed the economy and drove out most industry. Maine doesn’t need to advertise its threats like PA does — the legislature keeps giving MRS more money to hire more enforcers, in the name of ‘compliance’, in a panicky attempt to close enormous budget gaps. Taxes and controls under non-objective law imposed at the ‘discretion’ of agency bureaucrats have turned Maine into a third world country, with everything that implies about abuse of civil rights.

What is wrong with publishing the names, broadcasting them , using shame?

The Ads for it, however, this one and the ones on the radio…
Well, they make me want to say, “Come and get it.”

As it turned out. No. We couldn’t.

Yes, people should pay their taxes but the state shouldn’t invoke Orwellian tactics in their collection efforts.

Once they do decide to pay their tax, they end up not only with interest and penalty but also the sheriff’s dept. attempt at serve and then my serve fee. With the PA spot, sounds like they’re getting off light.

The feeling I get from the spot is that its wayback taxes. Now, they could go through the courts and garnish ‘Tom’s’ wages or get some other default judgement from the court. They obviously don’t want to do that and rather give Tom the chance to handle his obligation. Not every govenrment is going to hire a pi to locate and/or serve but it keeps names from being posted in papers and prevents lengthy court entanglements.

This ad is an attention getter.

Just saying,

Brian O’Connor
www.RedDogReport.com

These are mob tactics…although there is very little distinuguishing the M.O. of the goverment from the mob these days.