jclifton
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I don't have a job to offer, but would recommend that instead of passively expecting people to give you job info, you review the materials on this and the SEDM site and proactively approach private companies. See if they will accept a W-8Ben and associated affidavit confirming you're a NRA instead of forcing withholding paperwork on you. Alternatively, see if they will hire you through an LLC you set up (and let you work out complications with the IRS) or other workarounds. Or get a foreign maildrop address, and work online opportunities (use that mailing address on the sign up applications, to bypass being forced to submit a SSN or fill out W-9s).
Yes I checked the pocket commissions, and they were A commissions. The agent did get mad when I said they lacked jurisdiction or authority to hand me the summons, and stammered that he had “downstream” authority from a supervising agent with an E badge, which was not true. I have no background on the UCC-5 either, its just another way to contest the presumptions and get the default affidavit into the record.
Just to update all, my 3/7 meeting went about as well as I could manage under the circumstances (the head collection agent was abrasive and uncomprehending, just as expected). My two witnesses (one of who was an attorney) found my presentation compelling, and said the agents looked like what they heard from me was truly news to them. One of them mentioned 6301 as his source of authority, but wouldn't mention the implementing reg, nor put it in writing to match my affidavits. They were silent when I presented an Affidavit of Default for their having failed to complete the Test for Fed Tax Professionals.
Unfortunately, the head guy slapped an administrative summons on me on the spot, saying my “I'll provide info once you establish I'm liable, or a taypayer” meant I must be refusing to cooperate (got it on tape). So, I'll be pleading the fifth in two weeks. I also offered a conditional acceptance to provide records if they prove how my 5th amendment rights aren't violated, provide evidence of my liability, their jurisdiction, etc. I'm putting it into writing, so when they don't respond I'm in position to issue a second default notice. I'm thinking about also filing a UCC-5 Correction of the Record to 'correct' the Summons, based on the presumed facts established by the AOD.
Use the administrative/UCC approach, involving the Notary Certificate of Default method in the Sovereignty Forms and Instructions Manual section 3.4.4 ff (p243-254). Write a notarized letter that conditionally accepts paying the fee, “upon proof of claim”—that is, prove you're liable, that they have jurisdiction, etc.
If they don't respond in 15 or whatever days specified, they have 'dishonored' you, and conceded your answers as presumed fact. Now submit a NCD that states your answers (that you're not liable, that they have no jurisdiction, etc.) as conceded fact, and you're in position to vacate their levies, and/or seek a judgement to recover your money.
Thanks for the suggestions Bing, I think I will continue to go on a “documentation binge' after the meeting to further establish nonliability, and place further burden of proof on the IRS. I wasn't in DC in '04, though, perhaps it was a a different year if we met.
