Austin Escorts: Suicide pilot fought the law in ’80s _ and law won
… We carefully studied the law (with the help of some of the `best’, high-paid, experienced tax lawyers in the business),” he wrote, “and then began to do exactly what the `big boys’ were doing (except that we weren’t steeling (sic) from our congregation or lying to the government about our massive profits in the name of God).”
But the IRS disagreed and apparently notified the Stacks that it was going to file a lien against them to recover the arrearage.
Most of the Tax Court records have been destroyed. But according to the few surviving documents, the couple filed their case in October 1983 at Los Angeles.
The Stacks were represented by the late Darrell V. Rippy, an Arizona attorney perhaps best known as one of the investors who tried to take Nevada’s notorious Mustang Ranch brothel public in the late 1980s.