The tax code rewrite was designed to shift exemptions, deductions, investment gains and losses around to allow the tax rate to be reduced at the upper end with each of the rate categories on their own being revenue neutral.
Many simply removed the disputed content immediately to stay "neutral" and avoid trouble, said the EFF, but that made it hard for those on the end of trademark claims to mount a challenge.
Recently I have been relatively neutral on stocks because the markets in January have been flooded with cash from investors reinvesting proceeds from year-end tax avoidance selling and bonus income they took last year instead of 2013.
"The confiscation of equipment, money and other materials is unacceptable and must end immediately, " it said, while stressing that the agencies involved affected had acted "in a neutral and impartial manner".