Innovative Social Justice Networking Techniques

A couple of things of note:

• Ruth Benn of NWTRCC has written up some of her notes on the “Innovative Social Justice Networking Techniques” panel with Mira Luna and Kwan Booth from the NWTRCC national gathering earlier this month.
• Phil Hodgen, from International Tax Law specialists the Hodgen Law Group, ponders the question what if one spouse is renouncing U.S. citizenship and the other isn’t? How do you fill out Form 8854 to figure out whether you are a “covered expatriate” who has to pay a hefty exit tax?

From the 23 May 1972 Toledo Blade:

Anti-War Teacher Loses Tax Case

States, Indochina on Dependents List

Augusta, Ga. (AP) — A professor of religion, who claimed 53 dependents on his withholding form, was convicted Monday of violating U.S. tax laws.

Ellis H. Rece, Jr. associate professor at Paine College, claimed the 50 states of the United States and the countries of Laos, Cambodia, and Vietnam on his withholding form.

Mr. Rece testified that he wrote three letters to the IRS giving his reasons for claiming 53 dependents as religious conviction, dictates of conscience, and opposition to the Vietnam war.

He was convicted in U.S. District Court for supplying false information to his employer — the college. The offense is a misdemeanor, and Mr. Rece will be sentenced later.