5. Corporation Sole. Participants apply for incorporation under pretext of being a “bishop” or “overseer” of a one-person, phony religious organization or society with idea that this entitles individual to exemption from federal income taxes as a nonprofit, religious organization. When used as intended, Corporation Sole statutes enable religious leaders to separate themselves legally from control and ownership of church assets. But rules have been twisted at seminars where taxpayers are charged fees of $1,000 or more and incorrectly told that Corporation Sole laws provide a “legal” way to escape paying federal income taxes, child support and other personal debts.

6. Offshore Transactions. Despite a crackdown, individuals continue to try to avoid U.S. taxes by illegally hiding income in offshore bank and brokerage accounts or using offshore credit cards, wire transfers, foreign trusts, employee leasing schemes, private annuities or life insurance to do so. The IRS continues to aggressively pursue taxpayers and promoters involved in such abusive transactions.

7. Zero Return. Promoters instruct taxpayers to enter all zeros on their federal income tax filings. In a twist on this scheme, filers enter zero income, report their withholding and then write “nunc pro tunc”–– Latin for “now for then”––on return. The IRS takes a very poor view of this tactic.

8. Employment Tax Evasion. The IRS has seen a number of illegal schemes that instruct employers not to withhold federal income tax or other employment taxes from wages paid to their employees. Such advice is based on an incorrect interpretation of Section 861 and other parts of tax law and has been refuted in court. Recent cases have resulted in criminal convictions, and courts have issued injunctions against more than a dozen persons ordering them to stop promoting scheme. Employer participants can also be held responsible for back payments of employment taxes, plus penalties and interest. It is worth noting that employees who have nothing withheld from their wages are still responsible for payment of their personal taxes. The employees, however, can sue their employer for damages.

Inappropriate tax schemes come and go, so 2005 list is fairly standard stuff with one exception. The spread of identity theft schemes is troubling, particularly when thieves pretend to act as IRS agents. Be careful out there.

"Of course, one can always find ‘free’ software, but annual software lease agreements and/or membership fees paid to company offering it end up costing more over long term than you would have paid had you purchased software outright," he says.

Disappointed with vagaries of equity markets, hidden agendas of brokerage firms, and sizable start up costs of equities day trading, Keister’s turned to forex. "Forex trading is excruciatingly affordable. One doesn’t have to invest a fortune in software and on-going membership fees to get started. Trading software is readily available on-line and only fee one can anticipate is a modest transaction spread," Keister says.

"When I first started looking into forex trading, I discovered that only way small investors could get in market was to jump in deep end, more often than not, without knowledge they needed to keep themselves afloat. Like everyone else, I paid dearly for my lessons because I couldn’t find a mentor willing or able to provide information I needed to succeed. Now that I look back on experiences I had, I can understand why that information wasn’t readily available. The big boys were just too busy making money and had nothing to gain sharing their expertise with little guys like me," Keister says.

When Keister first entered forex market, he was naturally frustrated by fact that there was no single, reliable source he could rely on to get answers to even simplest questions," he says. "There were a few insiders who assembled rudimentary training materials they would sell at an exaggerated cost, but I couldn’t find a central source of information about forex trading and, more importantly, couldn’t get clarification when materials provided generated even more questions than they answered.

"Over past ten years I’ve also read scores of books about forex trading and they, too, have a common problem. While providing an abundance of information, they unnecessarily complicate process," he says. "Forex trading is a very simple process based on a mastery of a number of visual cues that normally occur above and below pivot points. You don’t need to understand why market behaves way it does. You only need to be able to recognize a few predicable patterns to generate a reasonable and consistent return on your investments."

Failing to find an adequate source of information, Keister decided to put together an education program of his own, one based on his own successes and failures. "It was clear to me that forex education arena was lacking so I put together a forex trading course that simplifies process, providing answers to basic questions experts were too either too busy to answer or couldn’t answer in a language that can be easily understood," he says. In end he believes he has developed a forex trading course that actually makes forex trading easy - a forex trading course for dummies.

Why would he use term ‘dummies?’ "Not to 'dis' younger generation, but I hired a number of high school and college students to test program and majority are now successfully trading on their own behalf. Those who are underage are using custodial accounts set up by their parents," he says. "If they can do it with as little knowledge as they have, anyone can do it."

Unlike so many online forex training programs that sell their clients training materials and then disappear, ForexInterBank’s program includes live, daily mentoring. Once students have completed company’s interactive forex trading course, they have means to actually watch and listen to ForexInterBank traders as they walk through their own trades. "We believe this follow-on, real world training is what really sets us apart," Keister says.

"Our clients can actually listen in on real time analysis and watch trades as they actually happen," he says. A few examples of these live mentoring sessions can be viewed in live training room at company’s web site. "Visitors can see and listen to eight of our past sessions," Keister points out.

Day traders and investors wanting more information about John Keister and ForexInterBank’s educational services are encouraged to visit www.Forexinterbank.com.