IRS Sues Quaker Group to Recover Taxes

The IRS has sued the Philadelphia Yearly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends for refusing to garnish the wages of one of its employees, a tax resister who says she has religious objections to supporting the military.

The service says that Priscilla Adams, a Quaker activist, owes more than $42,000 in back taxes, penalties, and interest because she withheld at least a portion of her federal income taxes from 1986 to 1996. The agency plans to impose a 50-percent penalty of more

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