Wayne Bentson

Part of the Taxation in the United States series
Tax protest in the United States
History
Arguments
Constitutional · 16th Amendment Statutory · Administrative · Conspiracy
People
Arthur Porth Robert Clarkson · Vivien Kellems Irwin Schiff · William J. Benson Wayne C. Bentson · Tom Cryer Richard Michael Simkanin · Eddie Ray Kahn
Related topics
America: Freedom to Fascism The Law that Never Was Cheek v. United States Titles of Nobility Amendment Tax noncompliance Tax resistance Christian Patriot movement Posse Comitatus Sovereign citizen movement Tea Party movement

Wayne C. Bentson is a businessman and tax protester from Payson, Arizona.

Bentson operated Western Information Network and the Bentson Group until May 1997. He represented himself as a tax expert and told his clients that they did not need to pay federal income tax.

Benston helped Milton William Cooper research the article BATF/IRS – Criminal Fraud which was published in Veritas magazine, issue #6, in September 1995.

According to the United States Department of Justice, Bentson was accused of falsely advising clients that the federal income tax laws apply only "to individuals residing in the Virgin Islands, Guam, and Puerto Rico" or federal lands where the federal government has juristiction. Bentson was convicted of conspiracy to defraud the United States and willful failure to file personal federal income tax returns by a federal jury on December 13, 2004 in Tucson, Arizona. On May 18, 2005, he was sentenced to four years in prison and three years of "supervised release during which he is barred from giving tax advice." He was ordered to pay $1,129,937 to the Internal Revenue Service in restitution.^[1]

Bentson was incarcerated at the Federal Community Corrections facility at Phoenix, Arizona, and was released in May 2008.^[2]

Notes

References

• "Jury finds 'tax man' guilty of fraud" by Kelly Crowley, Payson Roundup, December 28, 2004, retrieved August 4, 2006