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...officials concede that they are cracking down this year on people who they believe are evading taxes in ways that inspire others. The taxmen are frankly concerned about the proliferation of anti-tax movements. The number of tax protests has nearly doubled in the past two years, and the IRS fears they will spread like crab grass if not swiftly curbed. So far this year the agency has taken legal steps to snuff out tax rebellions in Washington, Connecticut and Michigan...
Although the SEC is unlikely to press its inquiry now that Hefner has agreed to repay the company, Playboy is still contesting an assessment of about $13.4 million in taxes due the Internal Revenue Service between 1970 and 1976, including $ 1.4 million that taxmen say Hefner owes for his use of the mansions. Nor is this an end to trouble in the hutch. Bunnies are no longer multiplying like rabbits, and for the first time Playboy Clubs are having to hustle for bustle. Evidently, being a bunny these days, like being a playboy, is not what it used...
...taxmen also keep a close eye on press reports of people who have been promoted to high-paying jobs, won lotteries or otherwise struck it rich. A lush lode for the tax examiners was provided, for example, by a Washington, B.C., newspaper feature on Virginia's new coal millionaires...
...Getty Museum is more worried about U.S. taxmen than Italian judges and diplomats. California sales-tax law exempts any work of art that has been displayed outside the state for at least six months, so the Getty people have broken the boy's westward passage with stopovers at the Boston Museum of Fine Arts and, currently, at the Denver Art Museum. California tax officials have no hope of collecting $234,000 in sales tax, but various Colorado tax officials have filed use-tax claims...
...taxmen figure that much of the haul is transported in tractor-trailers that can carry 10,000 cartons of cigarettes at a time for a profit of $15,000. Vending machine companies, restaurants and motels controlled by the Mafia can be easily persuaded to retail the cigarettes. The seven states and New York City are hoping for a $750,000 federal grant to help them combat the crime, but they know it won't be easy. Contraband cigarettes are even sold occasionally in Harrisburg's North Office Building, headquarters of the Pennsylvania state revenue department...