Word: lien
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...courtly minuet. Thus, such longtime resisters as Folk Singer Joan Baez file returns (not to do so is a misdemeanor) that fully report income (to report inaccurately is fraud). They then withhold all or a percentage of their estimated tax as "war tax credit." The IRS files a lien on their bank accounts and takes the money. Technically, this form of resistance constitutes willful failure to pay, punishable by a maximum $10,000 fine and one year in prison. So far, the government has chosen not to prosecute anyone from whom it recovers the money due, as it has from...
...Sheriff's only duty at Commencement is to reply to the Marshal's cry, "Sheriff, pray give us order," by rapping his sword three times on the platform and crying, "Let the meeting be in order." It is unclear what Buckley will use to strike the platform in lien of his sword...
...follies are being visited on the father in more ways than one. The senior Copeland guaranteed about $8.2 million in loans to his son and his enterprises, all of which are now bankrupt or in deep financial trouble. Copeland holds a lien on Lammot Jr.'s real property, including a $500,000 home, making it unavailable to other creditors. Copeland's financial worries have been further complicated by the near failure of a family-connected stock brokerage, Francis I. du Pont & Co. Various family members and their friends are investors in the firm, and its troubles cost them...
...Ordered the District of Columbia to pay for gas, water and electricity in inhabited slum houses whose owners had refused to foot the bill. He relied in part on a D.C. statute permitting the mayor to provide for utilities and impose a lien on such property. "Where hundreds of residents already living a marginal existence in substandard housing face a cutoff of gas, water and electricity," he wrote, "the municipality has a duty to exercise its inherent power...
...Henry said, "the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) hasn't prosecuted anyone over the phone tax. What they've been doing is levying a lien on the person's bank account to get the money. They don't want to put people in jail, they just want the money...