The IRS along with their assorted enforcement bodies failed to get a conviction in a tax evasion case based on paying employees in gold/silver coin according to their face value instead of ‘market’ value.
Story sourced from Technocrat.net…
But for some reason when the IRS loses it never becomes a precident. They’ll happily charge someone else with exactly the same offense as soon as the opportunity comes up. He’ll lose and then the IRS will say there that settles the question. Their lawyers, stinging from this defeat, are probably searching for another case right now.