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National retail sales tax proponents
Citizens for an Alternative Tax System
(CATS) was a national
tax reform
public interest group in the
United States
active from 1990 until 2005. The organization's
Las Vegas
chapter proposed "that Congress should eliminate the IRS and all income taxes, corporate and personal; estate, gift and inheritance taxes, plus many excise taxes; replacing them with a single-rate
tax on consumption
?a national retail sales tax.
[1]
History
Citizens for an Alternative Tax System was founded in 1990 by
Scientologist
Steven L. Hayes as a way to obsolete the
IRS
. The project was covertly managed by Scientology's
Office of Special Affairs
. Until 1993, when it gained tax-exempt status, the
Church of Scientology
was in conflict with the IRS.
[2]
[3]
[4]
[5]
[6]
CATS claims to have expanded from nine local offices to over 300 chapters across the United States.
[7]
Its last
Form 990
was filed in 2005.
[4]
[6]
See also
References
- ^
"CATS Las Vegas"
. Archived from
the original
on July 10, 2011
. Retrieved
July 12,
2011
.
- ^
"Declaration of Vic and Vicki Krohn"
.
Moving On Up a Little Higher
. October 31, 2012.
- ^
Boortz, Neal
(August 29, 2007).
"On the Fairtax / Scientology Connection"
.
boortz.com
. Archived from
the original
on August 29, 2007.
- ^
a
b
Galloway, Jim; Kemper, Bob (August 28, 2007).
"On John Linder and Scientology"
.
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
. Archived from
the original
on September 30, 2007.
- ^
Bartlett, Bruce
(August 26, 2007).
"Fair Tax, Flawed Tax"
. The Wall Street Journal. Archived from
the original
on August 30, 2007.
- ^
a
b
Bartlett, Bruce
(September 7, 2007).
"Scientology's Fair Tax Plot"
.
CBS News
. Archived from
the original
on November 4, 2012
. Retrieved
July 12,
2011
.
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