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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!spool.mu.edu!uwm.edu!news-peer.gsl.net!news.gsl.net!news.sgi.com!news1.best.com!nntp1.best.com!usenet From: t4p@best.com (Mark Jeghers) Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.programmer.misc,comp.os.ms-windows.programmer.tools.misc,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: If you are self-employed, please read this Date: 5 Jan 1997 03:50:19 GMT Organization: Technology for People Lines: 50 Message-ID: <5an8dr$ais@nntp1.best.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: t4p.vip.best.com Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Newsreader: WinVN 0.93.14 Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.os.ms-windows.programmer.misc:103671 comp.os.ms-windows.programmer.tools.misc:6336 comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:33632 Please indulge me with this posting - while it may not DIRECTLY apply to the topic of this group, there are probably a large number of readers here to whom this message may be important. If you are: A) self-employed or involved with self-employed B) of the opinion the Section 1706 is unfair to contractors C) tired of the IRS ignoring the Constitution then I'd appreciate hearing from you briefly at "mark@t4p.com". An advocacy group for small businesses is considering a legal challenge against Section 1706 of the IRS code. This is the notorious "20 questions" rules that allow the IRS to deny the right to be self-employed to contractors involved in technology. If you are interested in being A) part of a class action suit to this end, and/or B) helping to provide resources please send me a BRIEF email response (mark@t4p.com) to let me know. The advocacy group has limited resources, and they are trying to determine if they can take this issue on or not. Strong interest from many people could be most encouraging to them, especially if some of us can help to kick in some financial support for the legal costs. Section 1706 should never have been put into law. It has been unfair and unconstitutional from the beginning. Legislative solutions are slow in coming and may not stop the inequity even when they arrive. It is high time we had our day in court. Please consider sending me a response to indicate your interest and support. Please pass this message on to any group that may share this interest. If you going to reply with a "It-will-never-work" message, please don't. If you are not supportive of this cause, please reconsider! Thanks for listening. Mark Jeghers