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SEATTLE, WA - Over 30 years ago Henry Kersting put a small sign on the wall of the Honolulu Continental Airlines Pilot bulletin board requesting investors. It was one of the most successful low margin advertising events in American History. In a short time the Kersting companies had 1800-plus pilots from all over the United States, in all of the major commercial airlines, as investors. Plans were made to buy banks, car rental companies, real estate, and other commercial activity. Promises were made as to the legitimacy of numerous estate and tax shelter planning. Ultimately, Kersting’s case would become one of the most litigated IRS tax cases in history; one where the IRS was found to have defrauded the Tax Court. It is a case that still rages on today with Michael Minns, the lawyer who has won more fights (counts that the government accuses someone of criminal conduct and are found not guilty) than perhaps any other state full of attorneys, and certainly any other single attorney in the United States.
History in brief
The IRS and Kersting did not get along. For the better part of three decades the IRS challenged and chased Kersting and his investors and in fact, when Kersting died they continued to go after his assets. Kersting had fought each and every controversy with the IRS. It was a fight that had him litigate his cases all over the United States. Kersting had numerous published decisions in various circuit courts and in Tax Court. Sadly for Kersting and his investors, every single recorded case that he fought with the IRS resulted in a victory for the IRS.
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