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Philadelphia's Quakers must pay worker's taxes.
Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News, June, 2004
By Jim Smith, Philadelphia Daily News Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News
Jun. 24--Philadelphia's top Quaker group must pay $50,000 in back taxes on behalf of an employee, a conscientious objector who won't pay income taxes because some of the money would go to fight wars.
But the IRS won't be able to get an additional $25,000 "penalty" from the 12,000-member Philadelphia Yearly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends, a federal judge ruled yesterday.
In a case in which religious principles clashed with the government's power to collect taxes, U.S. District Judge Stewart Dalzell ruled that the Yearly Meeting shouldn't be penalized for not acting as the IRS' collection agent.
Priscilla Lippincott Adams, 51, whose Quaker...
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