Experts believe the U.S. government has never before seized a church in a dispute over taxes.
A noon deadline for the independent Baptist congregation to vacate its property passed without any sign of marshals. They can take our church. The church, with a 1,000-member congregation, stopped withholding federal income and Social Security taxes from the paychecks of its employees in 1984. Church officials said that their duty to obey God prevailed over manmade laws, and that withholding taxes would make the church an agent of the government. The younger Dixon said the employees have paid their own taxes.