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- Title: United States v. Silkman
- Author : Eighth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals
- Release Date : January 19, 2000
- Genre: Law,Books,Professional & Technical,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 56 KB
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Appeal from the United States District Court for the District of South Dakota. Submitted: June 15, 2000 Elto n Silkman was indicted on five counts of tax evasion in violation of 26 U.S.C. § 7201 after he failed to file federal income tax returns for the years 1981 throug h1985, sold his farm assets and transferred the proceeds to European bank accounts ,and ignored the Internal Revenue Service's assessments of tax deficiencies. A jury convicted Silkman on all five counts, but we reversed the conviction because an element of the crime of tax evasion is a tax deficiency, and the district court had improperl yinstructed the jury that the IRS tax assessments conclusively established the fact of tax deficiencies . United States v. Silkman, 156 F.3d 833 (8th Cir. 1998).