QuoteNorth Carolina mini-mart owner battles IRS over seizure of $107,000

The owner of a rural North Carolina convenience store is fighting back after the IRS seized his bank account of more than $107,000 under civil forfeiture laws targeting drug lords and terrorists.

Fox 8 reports Lyndon McLellan has been accused of structuring cash deposits to avoid bank reporting requirements. He takes in lots of cash running the L&M Convenience Mart in Fairmont, N.C. The mart includes a gas station and a lunch counter. The IRS has not accused him of any crime.

"It took 13 years to get it and less than 13 seconds, I guess, to take it away," the 50-year-old says in a video on the Fox 8 website that his lawyers at the Institute for Justice, a libertarian public interest law firm, produced.

McLellan aroused IRS suspicion with cash deposits of less than $10,000. He said he is not a criminal, just someone who has worked hard all his life.

"To make this kind of money selling soft drinks, cigarettes, and hot dogs somebody's got to work," he says in the video. "It wasn't handed to us. It was taken from us. But it wasn't handed to us."

The Institute for Justice said the IRS has gone after a string of legitimate small business owners under for structuring violations under civil forfeiture. McLellan is only the most recent, the nonprofit said.

http://www.foxnews.com/us/2015/05/03/nc-mini-mart-owner-battles-irs-over-seizure-107000/?intcmp=latestnews

Outrageous out of control agency that needs to be shut down or severely limited!!

While Soros, Sharpton and thousands of federal employees are given a pass.  Many of them IRS employees!

Interestingly enough, that $10,000 limit is only going to catch low level, street corner dealers. The high level dealers wash their billions of cash through international bankers. Once again the IRS goes after the little guy!

Look out paper boys and vending machine operators, the IRS knows those meager daily deposits are just a front for the mob, that you actually make thousands more dong what you do.

So without trial, or charge, we'll seize all your assets, till you admit you're actually the Kingpin of a syndicate.

Quote from: Solar on May 04, 2015, 06:58:35 AM
Look out paper boys and vending machine operators, the IRS knows those meager daily deposits are just a front for the mob, that you actually make thousands more dong what you do.

So without trial, or charge, we'll seize all your assets, till you admit you're actually the Kingpin of a syndicate.

No help from the DOJ (now known as the Lynch-Mob)either.   

Quote from: keyboarder on May 04, 2015, 09:32:46 AM
No help from the DOJ (now known as the Lynch-Mob)either.   

Well they did offer Half his money back!

QuoteTo get his money back, McLellan has the burden of proving the money came from legitimate sources.

He has rejected a deal that would let the IRS keep half the cash, the Times said.

"I thought do you quit now? Do you try and keep struggling and go on? And I chose to try to keep going on," he said.

This makes it even more of an outrage! Where do they justify keeping any part of it?