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http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/world-news/businessman-pays-3000-tax-bill-9618405

An American businessman at loggerheads with the Department of Motor Vehicles over being unable to contact them directly has paid his tax bill with 300,000 coins.

Nick Stafford from Cedar Buff, Virginia, delivered five wheelbarrows of pennies containing $3,000 in change - equivalent to £2,474 - following a legal row he had with officials.

The dispute arose after Stafford had tried to contact the DMV asking which address he should use to register three vehicles and pay the sales tax.

The businessman owns three houses and was unsure which to put down.

After attempting to call the Lebanon DMV in Virginia, he was routed to a call centre in Richmond.

Annoyed, he submitted a request under the Freedom of Information Act seeking the direct number to this local office, which he was provided.

Despite initially being told the phone line wasn’t for public use, they eventually answered his question after repeated calls.

Deciding to take the matter further however, Stafford asked the local DMV for the direct phone lines to nine other local DMV.

After they refused, he filed three lawsuits in court to get them.

“If they were going to inconvenience me then I was going to inconvenience them,” he said.

“It shouldn’t matter if you pay $300 per year in income taxes or pay $300,000 per year in income taxes like myself, because the backbone of a free democracy/republic begins with government transparency, period.”

To pay the $3,000 bill, he had spent just over $1,000 in purchasing the wheelbarrows and hiring people to break open the hundreds of rolls of coins.