Americans For Fair Taxation (AFFT), also known as FairTax.org, is a U.S. political advocacy group based in Clearwater, Florida that is dedicated to fundamental tax code replacement.
[4] The three went on to raise an additional $17 million to fund focus groups with citizens around the country and tax policy studies.
[4] Some of the experts funded include: Some have criticized Americans For Fair Taxation for the way that they present the FairTax plan.
[8] In 2007 Bruce Bartlett wrote that FairTax was originally devised by the Church of Scientology in the early 1990s as a way to get rid of the Internal Revenue Service.
[9] Representative John Linder told the Atlanta Journal-Constitution that Bartlett confused the FairTax movement with the Scientology-affiliated Citizens for an Alternative Tax System.