Flathead-area Rep. Tom Millett faces an unpaid income tax bill totaling at least $427,000 after repeated court losses in a years-long dispute with the federal government about whether he failed to pay his full income tax bill between 2004 and 2017.

Millett failed to file an income tax return in every year between 2004 and 2012 except 2010, according to court filings. That period includes at least one year, 2009, when the IRS says he earned more than $100,000.

Representing himself in the legal dispute, Millett has argued that, as he interprets the U.S. tax code, his earnings were exempt from taxation because he believes income is technically taxable only for residents of federal districts such as Washington, D.C. He has also argued that the IRS failed to properly notify him about his tax

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