U.S. Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens turns down a request by the Baptist Temple to delay enforcement of Barker's order. Hundreds of members and supporters gather in the church waiting for the marshals to arrive. The U.S. Supreme Court declines to hear the Baptist Temple case, ending the church's legal options. Protesting church members are moved out of the building on stretchers. No one is injured or arrested.
Property belonging to the church is auctioned.
In 1983, after Dixon decided the church should break all ties with the government, the church dissolved its legal corporate status and began operating as an unincorporated church. From that point forward, the church paid no taxes and filed no tax forms with the Internal Revenue Service. There are three federal employment taxes - the Social Security tax, the Medicare tax, and the normal income tax. According to federal law, employers must pay half of the applicable Social Security and Medicare taxes and must withhold from employees' wages the other half of the applicable Social Security and Medicare taxes, as well as all of the applicable normal income tax. For several years after the Baptist Temple stopped paying taxes nothing happened, but eventually the IRS contacted the church about its failure to file returns.