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Tax liens increase 200-fold in 1997

YAKIMA (Tuesday 7-20-99)---Hello, Mr. entrepreneur, do you have the feeling the IRS is creeping up on you?
If you're a small business owner in Yakima County, you're certainly not alone. In fact, you're in very respectable company.

Numbers of IRS liens upon area residents and small business owners increased more than 200-fold beginning in 1997.

County Auditor records indicate:

• 1985 - two tax liens filed by IRS

• 1986 to 1995 - zero reported liens

• 1996 - one

• 1997 - 240

• 1998 - 119

• 1999 - 35 to July

One irony is that, in 1997, Congress passed the IRS Reform Act, which is supposed to level the playing field between the IRS and its polar opposite, small businesses and individuals.

If anything, the Yakima IRS got busier and nastier after the Act was approved by both houses and signed by the president.

While Bill Clinton romanced Monica Lewinsky with a Havana cigar in the White House in '97, some 240 Yakima County residents lived in fear his IRS would confiscate their homes and businesses for back taxes.

IRS threats usually are made against Yakima County Americans from the insular comfort of high-rise offices at 915 2nd Ave., Seattle. For example, Nolan Clark, former Seattle IRS Revenue Officer now in Yakima, filed with the Yakima County Auditor a lien on the James Russell property at 10206 W. Tieton Drive, Yakima, in June of 1989.

Russell eventually lost the property to the IRS after battles fought in County Superior and in Federal Court. Feds don't all live and work far away.

One of Russell's countersuits named as defendants local IRS snoops John D. Troutt, Mark Rook, Dennis M. Rencher, and John Parker.

It is believed 20-30 such snoops--men and women-- quietly work on the Chinook Tower's 6th floor, behind heavy, barred doors at 402 W. Yakima Ave.

YVN's attempts to obtain a list of all Yakima's IRS feds via the Freedom of Information Act has been ignored by that office in Washington, D.C. Yet these anonymous feds have tremendous power over Yakima County residents.

Local phantom feds scan your bank account, check your county property ownership records, and buddy up to the WA revenue department in Yakima. They pursue these and other clandestine activities with an eye toward gathering info about your assets and finances.
Local feds apparently love to go after small businesses. Most of these operations are all their owners have standing between themselves and poverty. They can't afford to fight local feds in costly civil suits feds file locally using tax-paid attorneys.

Once feds gather lawsuit info they forward it to fed laywers who make short work of individual life savings in a juryless, federal "kangaroo" court, often held at 25 S. 3rd St. This Yakima building, called by some a "den of Socialist thieves", is defended by airport-type security and several nervous, middle-aged guards. Feds don't own up to last names. Most weekdays, however, "Gary", "Harold" and "Steve" man the barrier erected between feds and American citizens.

It is often the business of folks at 25 S. 3rd Street to take your home and everything you've ever worked for, if you do not pay your income taxes on time. Mostly, feds go after big ticket items--such as your home--they can rip off and sell in a hurry at bargain basement prices.

Once sheriff's deputies or federal marshals evict you from your home at gunpoint, your house goes on sale via the fed General Services Administration, 400 15th St. SW, Auburn, WA.

GSA sends out a little photo booklet outlining the fine points of your former property to regular bidders. It also advertises the sale in the county newspapers of record. For example:

GOVERNMENT PROPERTY for sale in Yakima, WA. 3 bdrm., 1 bath, 1,050 square ft. House built in 1957 on .75 acres. Plus 1,600 sq. ft. concrete masonry constructed shop w/concrete floors. Assessed at $105,900. Asking $80,000. Make offer, call GSA at (253) 831-7548.

Once the home is sold, the loot is forwarded to Washington, D.C., where it is spent wisely by federal bureaucrats.

The insidious presence of so many fed snoops in Yakima has spawned a flowering of bumper stickers the past several years, which say "I love my country but I fear my government".

Indications are the federal government fears right back.

Explaining the airport security equipment at 25 S. 3rd St., secretary "Anna" said "It's because of all these bombings and killings in federal buildings." She was visibly nervous and referred to the Oklahoma City bombing.

"Ignorance" among local officials of feds and fed activity in Yakima County is almost palpable. Local pols just don't want to talk about them.

County Assessor Dave Cook, for example, did not acknowledge fed presence in the Chinook Tower. "I don't know where they're from. I don't deal with them (feds)," Cook told YVN reporters.

He acknowleged that, beginning in 1997, an increasing number of Yakima County voting constituents are losing what they have to a ravenous federal government which confiscates and spends at a greater rate than at the height of World War II. And that this process all takes place within yards of his office.

"I'm sure they're all good people", Cook said of local IRS victims. "Of course they are."

County auditor records Tax liens increase 200-fold in 1997 YAKIMA (Tuesday 7-20-99)---Hello, Mr. entrepreneur, do you have the feeling the IRS is creeping up on you? If you're a small business owner in Yakima County, you're certainly not alone. In fact, you're in very respectable company. Numbers of IRS liens upon area residents and small business owners increased more than 200-fold beginning in 1997. County Auditor records indicate: • 1985 - two tax liens filed by IRS • 1986 to 1995 - zero reported liens • 1996 - one • 1997 - 240 • 1998 - 119 • 1999 - 35 to July One irony is that, in 1997, Congress passed the IRS Reform Act, which is supposed to level the playing field between the IRS and its polar opposite, small businesses and individuals. If anything, the Yakima IRS got busier and nastier after the Act was approved by both houses and signed by the president. While Bill Clinton romanced Monica Lewinsky with a Havana cigar in the White House in '97, some 240 Yakima County residents lived in fear his IRS would confiscate their homes and businesses for back taxes. IRS threats usually are made against Yakima County Americans from the insular comfort of high-rise offices at 915 2nd Ave., Seattle. For example, Nolan Clark, former Seattle IRS Revenue Officer now in Yakima, filed with the Yakima County Auditor a lien on the James Russell property at 10206 W. Tieton Drive, Yakima, in June of 1989. Russell eventually lost the property to the IRS after battles fought in County Superior and in Federal Court. Feds don't all live and work far away. One of Russell's countersuits named as defendants local IRS snoops John D. Troutt, Mark Rook, Dennis M. Rencher, and John Parker. It is believed 20-30 such snoops--men and women-- quietly work on the Chinook Tower's 6th floor, behind heavy, barred doors at 402 W. Yakima Ave. YVN's attempts to obtain a list of all Yakima's IRS feds via the Freedom of Information Act has been ignored by that office in Washington, D.C. Yet these anonymous feds have tremendous power over Yakima County residents. Local phantom feds scan your bank account, check your county property ownership records, and buddy up to the WA revenue department in Yakima. They pursue these and other clandestine activities with an eye toward gathering info about your assets and finances. Local feds apparently love to go after small businesses. Most of these operations are all their owners have standing between themselves and poverty. They can't afford to fight local feds in costly civil suits feds file locally using tax-paid attorneys. Once feds gather lawsuit info they forward it to fed laywers who make short work of individual life savings in a juryless, federal "kangaroo" court, often held at 25 S. 3rd St. This Yakima building, called by some a "den of Socialist thieves", is defended by airport-type security and several nervous, middle-aged guards. Feds don't own up to last names. Most weekdays, however, "Gary", "Harold" and "Steve" man the barrier erected between feds and American citizens. It is often the business of folks at 25 S. 3rd Street to take your home and everything you've ever worked for, if you do not pay your income taxes on time. Mostly, feds go after big ticket items--such as your home--they can rip off and sell in a hurry at bargain basement prices. Once sheriff's deputies or federal marshals evict you from your home at gunpoint, your house goes on sale via the fed General Services Administration, 400 15th St. SW, Auburn, WA. GSA sends out a little photo booklet outlining the fine points of your former property to regular bidders. It also advertises the sale in the county newspapers of record. For example: GOVERNMENT PROPERTY for sale in Yakima, WA. 3 bdrm., 1 bath, 1,050 square ft. House built in 1957 on .75 acres. Plus 1,600 sq. ft. concrete masonry constructed shop w/concrete floors. Assessed at $105,900. Asking $80,000. Make offer, call GSA at (253) 831-7548. Once the home is sold, the loot is forwarded to Washington, D.C., where it is spent wisely by federal bureaucrats. The insidious presence of so many fed snoops in Yakima has spawned a flowering of bumper stickers the past several years, which say "I love my country but I fear my government". Indications are the federal government fears right back. Explaining the airport security equipment at 25 S. 3rd St., secretary "Anna" said "It's because of all these bombings and killings in federal buildings." She was visibly nervous and referred to the Oklahoma City bombing. "Ignorance" among local officials of feds and fed activity in Yakima County is almost palpable. Local pols just don't want to talk about them. County Assessor Dave Cook, for example, did not acknowledge fed presence in the Chinook Tower. "I don't know where they're from. I don't deal with them (feds)," Cook told YVN reporters. He acknowleged that, beginning in 1997, an increasing number of Yakima County voting constituents are losing what they have to a ravenous federal government which confiscates and spends at a greater rate than at the height of World War II. And that this process all takes place within yards of his office. "I'm sure they're all good people", Cook said of local IRS victims. "Of course they are."