{"id":1243,"date":"2011-10-28T14:33:09","date_gmt":"2011-10-28T20:33:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/?p=1243"},"modified":"2012-03-22T11:00:23","modified_gmt":"2012-03-22T17:00:23","slug":"feds-sue-idaho-tax-protester-rep-phil-hart","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/2011\/10\/28\/feds-sue-idaho-tax-protester-rep-phil-hart\/","title":{"rendered":"Feds Sue Idaho Tax-Protester Rep. Phil Hart"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <em>Idaho Business Review<\/em><a href=\"http:\/\/idahobusinessreview.com\/2011\/10\/28\/feds-sue-northern-idaho-lawmaker-over-unpaid-taxes\/\" target=\"_blank\"> is reporting<\/a> north Idaho lawmaker Phil Hart is being sued for nearly $550,000 in unpaid income taxes, penalties and interest.\u00a0 The U.S. government is asking Idaho&#8217;s federal district court to sign off on foreclosing some of Hart&#8217;s property in Kootenai County.<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"fancybox\" title=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/files\/2011\/10\/PhilHart_R_Hayden.jpg\" rel=\"\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-1244\" title=\"PhilHart_R_Hayden\" src=\"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/files\/2011\/10\/PhilHart_R_Hayden.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"214\" height=\"299\" \/><\/a>Hart is a Republican from Hayden, Idaho.\u00a0 He&#8217;s serving his fifth term in the Idaho Legislature.\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/idahobusinessreview.com\/2011\/10\/28\/feds-sue-northern-idaho-lawmaker-over-unpaid-taxes\/\" target=\"_blank\">IBR.com<\/a> reports Hart also has a state tax lawsuit awaiting trail in the Idaho Supreme Court.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;He\u2019s also faced ethics hearings in the Legislature, though he avoided a vote after stepping down from\u00a0the vice chairman position of an Idaho House committee.&#8221; &#8211; Idaho Business Review<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The<em> Idaho Business Review<\/em> says this latest lawsuit is based on income tax assessments from 1996 to 2008.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;Hart has been a tax protestor, claiming that the government can\u2019t constitutionally collect taxes on his wages, since at least the mid 1990s. He\u2019s gone to court over his federal taxes, including an unsuccessful appeal to the U.S. Supreme Court. On a personal website, Hart and his supporters have claimed that <a href=\"http:\/\/hart4legislature.com\/2010\/07\/these-cpas-can-verify\/\">he\u2019s\u00a0paid his taxes since 1997<\/a> and that his <a href=\"http:\/\/hart4legislature.com\/2011\/01\/fight-for-freedom\/\">tax protesting is a fight for freedom<\/a>.&#8221; &#8211; Idaho Business Review<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>You can read the entire story<a href=\"http:\/\/idahobusinessreview.com\/2011\/10\/28\/feds-sue-northern-idaho-lawmaker-over-unpaid-taxes\/\" target=\"_blank\"> here. <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Idaho Business Review is reporting north Idaho lawmaker Phil Hart is being sued for nearly $550,000 in unpaid income taxes, penalties and interest.\u00a0 The U.S. government is asking Idaho&#8217;s federal district court to sign off on foreclosing some of Hart&#8217;s property in Kootenai County. Hart is a Republican from Hayden, Idaho.\u00a0 He&#8217;s serving his [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":1244,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[15],"tags":[235],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1243"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1243"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1243\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5940,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1243\/revisions\/5940"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1244"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1243"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1243"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1243"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}