A Wedding, a $750,000 Horse and the Complexity of IRS Seizures

Christina Fisher was planning her wedding when she got a call that federal agents were seizing her horse.

“I kept pleading with them just to wait until I got there,” said the 29-year-old, whose father was indicted earlier this year in an alleged tax scam. She says she told the agents to “take whatever you want that’s monetary, but you can’t treat a living animal like this.” The horse, a champion show jumper she calls Lex, “did nothing against the government,” she said.

The seizure of the 15-year-old Holsteiner, bought by her father in 2017 for $750,000, is one example ...