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{{quotation|''The withholding feature of the income tax is a still more clear-cut instance of involuntary servitude. For as the intrepid Connecticut industrialist Vivien Kellems argued years ago, the employer is forced to expend time, labor, and money in the business of deducting and transmitting his employees' taxes to the federal and state governments — yet the employer is not recompensed for this expenditure. What moral principle justifies the government's forcing employers to act as its unpaid tax collectors? The withholding principle, of course, is the linchpin of the whole federal income tax system. Without the steady and relatively painless process of deducting the tax from the worker's paycheck, the government could never hope to raise the high levels of tax from the workers in one lump sum. Few people remember that the withholding system was only instituted during World War II and was supposed to be a wartime expedient. Like so many other features of State despotism, however, the wartime emergency measure soon became a hallowed part of the American system. It is perhaps significant that the federal government, challenged by Vivien Kellems to test the constitutionality of the withholding system, failed to take up the challenge. In February 1948 Miss Kellems, a small manufacturer in Westport, Connecticut, announced that she was defying the withholding law and was refusing to deduct the tax from her employees. She demanded that the federal government indict her, so that the courts would be able to rule on the constitutionality of the withholding system. The government refused to do so, but instead seized the amount due from her bank account. Miss Kellems then sued in federal court for the government to return her funds. When the suit finally came to trial in February 1951, the jury ordered the government to refund her money. But the test of constitutionality never came''. - [[Murray Newton Rothbard]] in [[For a New Liberty]]}}

The Fidenato case has been reported in Italian newspapers<ref>[http://homepage.mac.com/rcortonesi/Sites/Enclave9.pdf ''Against the withholding tax''] ''I Fogli di Enclave'' n°9 page 1-2, by Arturo Doilo. Retrived on September 2009. Archived from [http://www.movimentolibertario.it/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=59 http://www.movimentolibertario.it]</ref> including ''[[Corriere della Sera]]'' <ref>[http://www.corriere.it/editoriali/09_settembre_24/ostellino-imprenditore-pordenone_4cd6a988-a8c7-11de-aaa2-00144f02aabc.shtml ''Entrepreneurs of Pordenone''], ''[[Corriere della Sera]]'' by Piero Ostellino. Retrived on September 9, 2009</ref>, ''[[Il Giornale]]'' and radio broadcasts of national importance including [[Radio24]] <ref>[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OIQqAANr4W8 Registration interview with Giorgio Fidenato by Oscar Giannino in radio broadcast ''Nine o'clock the version of Oscar'' on ''Radio24'']. Radio registration of June 4, 2009</ref> and [[Radio Radicale]].<ref>[http://www.radioradicale.it/soggetti/giorgio-fidenato Radio registrations about Giorgio Fidenato on Radio Radicale broadcasts].</ref>

Fidenato, as representative of the Movimento Libertario, was invited to discuss his case at the national conference of the Italian Radicals in [[Chianciano Terme]] (in Province of [[Siena]]) in November 2009.<ref>[http://vimeo.com/7667910 Video on the speech of Giorgio Fidenato in Congress of [[Italian Radicals]]] held in Chianciano Terme in November 2009.</ref>

A first interim hearing on withholding tax was held in Pordenone in November 2009.<ref>[http://homepage.mac.com/rcortonesi/Sites/Enclave10.pdf ''All with Fidenato''] ''I fogli di Enclave'' n°10, page 2. Retrived on September 2009. Archived from [http://www.movimentolibertario.it/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=59 http://www.movimentolibertario.it]</ref>

On 28 January 2010, the second and decisive hearing was held in the Labor Court of Pordenone.<ref>[http://www.libertiamo.it/2009/11/19/il-giudice-rinvia-a-gennaio-liniziativa-di-fidenato-sul-sostituto-dimposta-continua/ ''The court refers in January, Fidenato initiative continues on withholding tax''] by Piercamillo Falasca. Retrived on November 19, 2009.</ref>  

On 6 March 2010, Giorgio Fidenato was invited together the Movimento Libertario to discuss about withholding tax at the presentation in [[Rome]] of [http://www.confcontribuenti.eu/ Confcontribuenti] (Confederation of Italian taxpayers).<ref>[http://www.confcontribuenti.eu/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=57:roma-6-marzo&catid=36:roma-6-marzo&Itemid=58 ''Presentation of ConfContribuenti''] Retrived on February 2, 2010.</ref><ref>[http://www.confcontribuenti.eu/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=91%3Acomunicato-stampa-roma-6-marzo-2010-presentazione-della-confcontribuenti&catid=1%3Aultime&Itemid=1''Press Release: Roma March 6, 2010. Presentation of ConfContribuenti''] Retrived on February 22, 2010.</ref><ref>[http://www.confcontribuenti.eu/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=89:6-marzo-ore-1500-programma&catid=36:roma-6-marzo&Itemid=58 ''Rome, 6 March, 15.00 Program''] Program of Confcontribuenti conference. Retrived on February 17, 2010.</ref>