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What Law Requires Us To Pay Taxes?
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Hardly a week goes by when someone doesn’t discover my page on IRS tax brackets and leaves a comment about how there is no law requiring us to pay income taxes. Every once and a while, you hear a story about someone refusing to pay their taxes and getting locked up and penalized for it. Case in point, just last month a couple in New York were convicted, between them, of seven felony counts (5 counts of tax evasion and 2 counts of conspiring to defraud the government).
You are legally required to pay income tax. To argue otherwise is at best a political statement (which I think is fine, it’s our First Amendment right) and at worst a one way trip to the slammer.
Want to know which law requires it? Read on.
Internal Revenue Code
Tax law itself is codified in the Internal Revenue Code, which is known as Title 26 in the United States Code. The United States Code, as defined by the Government Printing Office, is the codification of general and permanent laws of the United States. It’s divided into fifty “titles” (or volumes) and published by the Office of the Law Revision Counsel of the U.S. House of Representatives every six years, with supplements being made available between editions. In layman’s terms, the United States Code is the collection of laws passed by the legislature and signed by the executive – the Code is law.
Title 26 covers the Internal Revenue Code. The Code itself is a collection of laws that were passed by Congress and bits and amendments were passed through the years. When people talk about AMT reform, they’re talking about passing amendments to adjust who gets affected by the Alternative Minimum Tax.
Which part of the Internal Revenue Code requires us the pay taxes? Section 1 (26 U.S.C. § 1), it states:
There is hereby imposed on the taxable income of every individual … who is not a married individual a tax determined in accordance with the following table ….
There you have it, right in the first section of the Code. When taxes are due is set in Section 6076: “[R]eturns made on the basis of the calendar year shall be filed on or before the 15th day of April following the close of the calendar year.” If you are unconvinced, I think I’ve discovered the single most valuable resource on the Internet with regards to the mandatory nature of income tax at Jon Siegel’s Income Tax Page. If you’re really interested, you could spend a good hour poking around at everything in there. Professor Siegel is a Professor of Law at The George Washington University Law School, he knows his stuff.
Finally, if you have any other frivolous tax arguments, the IRS has refuted practically all of them by now, including the one about how payment of tax is voluntary. Maybe you can find a new one and get yours added to the list!
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Interesting! I have had several people tell me that we shouldn’t have to pay, and it’s one big conspiracy!
Not sure that’s the case.
Thanks for the info.
…I agree that we shouldnt have to pay, and I dont agree that just because a corporation has its own code, that that makes it law for me personally. I know they have means and power far greater than little ol me, however, what if they didnt know that I made any money last year? How would they collect then? The Federal Reserve (a privately owned bank) says that because Im a member of the US, I owe them money, and with the help of the Gov. has set up the IRS to help collect… The answer that the IRS code required us to pay, to the question: “What LAW requires us to pay taxes?” at least our federal taxes, doesnt do it for me. Thats like me walking up to someone on my street and telling them they owe me money cause my code says I so, and that means its law to you. Furthermore, IF the statement: “There is hereby imposed on the taxable income of every individual…” is out of the IRS code information, it simply states that the taxes are imposed on “TAXABLE” income. So refering back to my question; What if they are unaware of your income? How are they going to tax it? Its like babysitting… The babysitter does a job and gets paid. Is it taxed? No. Cause its not “taxable”? Perhaps. But taxable or not, the IRS doesnt know about it, therefore cant tax it anyway. And no “LAWS” or codes are being broken… Think about it… All you have to do is discontinue the IRS from its awareness of your income somehow…
If you lie in informing the IRS on how much income you made, it is considered tax evasion and attempt to defraud government. Lets be reasonable. Taxes have been a part of society since the beginning of civilization, deal with it.
theres a difference in plain tax and tax of income….get it straight!
“Attemp to defraud government” Haha. If you do your research, you will realize it is not you who is defrauding the government, but the other way around.
LOL! Ok, this is funny! In Canada we have no choice but to pay taxes – the feds take their cut right out of each check.
Both sides are right…to a certain extent. We do have to pay taxes. However, the law requiring us to pay taxes is not constitutional.
Thanks,
Nate
Nate said “However, the law requiring us to pay taxes is not constitutional.”
The 16th Amendment to the US Constitution:
“The Congress shall have power to lay and collect taxes on incomes, from whatever source derived, without apportionment among the several States, and without regard to any census or enumeration.”
I don’t see how anyone could argue its unconstitutional since its explicitly in there.
That Amendment wasn’t even ratified properly. does not give Congress the right to tax people’s incomes.
All taxes levied by Congress have to be uniform and based on the Census, as proscribed in Section 9, Clause 4 and Section 2, Clause 3. The income tax is neither.
Of course, it really doesn’t matter. The government has enough guns to force you to pay the income tax, thus you have to pay it.
Claims that the 16th amendment isn’t valid are frivolous and bogus attempts by tax evaders. US courts have already dismissed the argument that the 16th amendment wasn’t ratified properly.
Well in the 80′s the suprime court in California actueally found it UN-constitutional and ruled we are not required to pat an income tax.
I Have yet to pay income taxes. the IRS comes at me each year, i explain to them i am not legally required to pay the agent says i am sorry for bothering you and they leave me alone for a another year or 2. They haven’t bothered me for 3 years actually maybe they made a note of it. lol none the less i am not in jail and my wages have not been messed with.
Yeah but if you look the 16th amendment was never ratified by the states there for its not law . Check that out and let me know what u think bout that ? If it was never ratified that means it was never law . There are several cases in the supreme court where they declared taxes on labor unconstitutional.
1. That ammendment wasn’t ratified by a suffcient number of states. So it should actually be seen as invalid. However it was basically just “thrown in there” by the government amnd now we are just supposed to “deal with it”
2. Originally the constitution was supposed to protect us from taxation without representation which coincidentally was one of the key reasons the revolutionary war was fought for. However this ammendment (that wasn’t ratified) does the opposite and imposes taxation without representation which is exactly what the quote you posted says.
Tax-Payers owe Taxes… Period. No “Thinking” there.
That’s what they’re required to do ( No “Question” either)
The term: Tax-Payer had to have come from somewhere… Yes?
Maybe it evolved from the existence of an obvious other term, namely:
Non Tax-Payer (Or, vice-versa)
Come on folks…. The latter term does exist!
If a Tax-Payer classification is determined by a law, there’s logically a Non-Tax-Payer classification, otherwise, Why make any distinction? All bears do something in the woods but some Dance”, hence, “Dancing Bears” as apposed to plain ole’ bears.
Thinking’s not as risky as a willful failure of something required so scarf it up.
I amuse myself with such foolish ideas of how easy it would be if someone else would pay my obligations. You know… legally as a “Proxy”… Like in the Bible story where “One” generously paid-off everyone’s bill. You know, a lot of folks “Think” that happened so they really do believe it. So many so…. that Judges are required to uphold the same foolish concept and as evidence of that, they require us to swear our truth against a Bible…. Which, of course, some choose not to believe in. But, what the hey… we’re capable of our own individual thoughts. Even if those thoughts are spoon fed from birth by Tax-Payers… We do believe in taxes, I “Think”
Look at this guy trying to sound smart lol the only reason theres even a term like tax payer is because that was spoon fed to us and they have never used the latter. see how im using some of your terms against ya haha. He’s probably like im an american cause i pay taxes all the rest of you are terrorist for not lol buying stuff and paying for stuff yes there should be taxes but off your working wages i dont think is constitutional…i wonder if you believe the patriot act is for our own safety as well cmon dude chill
He seems like a slave to this fucked up economic monopoly that has seemingly taken place in this nation and the world. How the federal reserve bank works is every dollar that is printed off has debt associated with it and no matter how much money we print off it is still going to leave us in debt. Income tax, about 25% of all of our earnings goes to pay off this debt off. Not to the roads, schools, or anything else. The federal reserve is not an institution of the united states its a seperate banking enterprise that consist of some of the most corrupt individuals in history. For an example of how corrupt they are, they knowingly caused1 the stock market crash by starting a loan for stocks where you only have to pay 10% of the value of the stock, well the only stipulation is that they can request the other 90% of the money you owe anytime they want. They called all the loans in at the same time and that caused everybody to sell their stocks causing a nation wide panic and depression and they used that time where corporations were almost in bankruptcy to buy up corporations and previously healthy smaller banks didn’t print any other money off which caused the country to stop the idea of the money being backed by gold. Our money used to say this is one dollar of cold, now our money says legal tender which basically means its worthless crap. The great depression was the biggest robbery in our nations history and that’s only one of the many fucked up things the fed does to us.
As far as the bill to pay income tax, It wasn’t ratified by enough states to make the bill on income tax legal and the fact that we have to pay 25% of our income to this corporate monopoly is modern day slavery and we should be rioting in the streets because of this fraud that has taken place for almost a century now.
Bardillo, Yours is the most ridiculous argument I have ever heard. I am interested to know more about state tax laws. I recently sold a car and since it was after May, I will be required to keep it assessed and pay taxes for the entire year. How can we be taxed for something we no longer own?
It is not in compiance to the supreme court ruling
…Who collects on federal tax? In other words, who do we make the checks out to? Congress? Sorry, but no…
Bingo.
There WAS a law that said that Blacks needed to attend different schools than Whites.
However that is UNCONSTITIUIONAL therefore NULL AND VOID, just as the Income Tax should be.
Bingo,
The jim crow laws were declared Unconstitutional by the Supreme Court, and struck down. The Supreme Court has not done so with income taxes.
The exact opposite has happened when it has come to most tax laws. The courts have upheld income taxes again again.
If you want to argue that the Court cannot decide what is and what isn’t constitutional then anybody could do as they please as we would all individually be arbiters of the law.
The problem there is that upholding income tax is in the better interest of courts. In actuality it can be seen as a conflict of interest.
The Supreme Court found that income tax is un-constitutional in 1895, and that ruling has never been overturned.
Citation?
Take a look at this page and read the comment made by Anthony Holt, pretty interesting stuff. Talks about the cases that found it unconstitutional.
http://www.westlawinsider.com/2010/04/today-in-1895-federal-income-tax-ruled-unconstitutional/
I wonder if anyone would notice if thousands of Americans started changing their w4s to stop withholdings then sent in checks for estimated tax liability with the words “This unconstitutional payment made in duress under threat of imprisonment” in the memo, or something to that effect I’m sure a lawyer could make a better sentence, but I think you get the idea.
THATS THE WHOLE POINT! The Fathers wanted a country BY THE PEOPLE!
Amendment 10: “powers not delegated to the United States…are reserved to the States, or to the people.”
Amendment 11: “The Judicial Power of the United States shall not be construed to extend to any suit in Law or Equity.”
“Law” refers to English Common Law, or jury trials. The idea is that anybod has the right to do whatever they want, so long as the jury of peers (others in society) finds them not guilty.
The Supreme Court has no constitutional power to interpret the constitution in any way. That power is reserved to the people.
If you give all the power to interpret, change and enforce to the government, you get a fascist state.
The “Internal Revenue Code” is not a law; they are guidelines created by the executive branch on how the IRS should tax the public, and how the public should be obedient and pay the taxes.
That being said, the “code” was never created by the legislative branch (called a Bill) and was never voted on to become a law. Why not?
Because of what Jim mentioned regarding the 16th amendment to the Constitution. Great and dandy; it’s an amendment, and amendments are laws.
Hold on there smokey, not in this particular case. Amendments must be legally ratified, and the 16th was never properly ratified as Krod mentioned. This makes the “amendment” technically not a law.
The problem is that the IRS has been given WAY too much power in its execution of their “code”. Don’t pay your taxes because its not a law, seems logical right? Wrong. This is not a democracy, law doesn’t matter. The police state swoops down on you, takes your house, charges you with tax evasion, and makes a case based off the fact that you didn’t pay taxes because you didn’t abide by the “code.”
However, most people by this point (especially after the IRS seizes everything before a trial), are not in a state where they could defend their action; would you want to fight the IRS when they seize your crap? No, you wouldn’t.
How are they able to seize your crap before you go trial? Easy: the “code” says you can, duh. I’m scared of the IRS, thats why I pay my taxes; not because it’s a law. I accept the fact that we don’t live in a republic free-enterprise state (bail-out what?).
Wake up people, we live in an emerging neo-police socialized state. Both parties like bailouts, yum. Yum yum bailouts. More money for both parties to stick into their corporations. Yum yum. Who are the republicans? Who are the democrats? Cartels. Both cartels vying for money and power in the new policed socialized state.
I’m proud to be an American, are you?
Mike, I think you are confusing “Regulations” with the “Internal Revenue Code”. Regulations are the rules that the IRS has created to implement the IRC pursuant to rulemaking authority granted to it by Congress in the IRC. The “Internal Revenue Code” is the law passed by Congress. Check out Professor Siegel’s website for more details.
Yes…confusion is dead right
Laws are supposed to be as simple as to be rightly understood by the common man, otherwise it is truly not a law.
Only Statutes are laws… Codes are but interpretations by the IRS, not Congress; to help you and I better understand the alleged confusion of Law. Regulationss may have the force of law when used in conjunction with an applicable Statute
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From http://www.losthorizons.com/newsletter (CtC):
“An administrative regulation, of course, is not a “statute.” While in practical effect regulations may be called “little laws,”. . . they are at most but offspring of statutes. Congress alone may pass a statute,. . . . Once promulgated, these regulations, called for by the statute itself, have the force of law, and violations thereof incur criminal prosecutions, just as if all the details had been incorporated into the congressional language. The result is that neither the statute nor the regulations are complete without the other, and only together do they have any force. In effect, therefore, the construction of one necessarily involves the construction of the other.” U.S. v. Mersky, 361 U.S. 431 (1960)
“In the absence of any better test, we give effect to the generally recognized rule that Regulations issued by the Secretary of the Treasury, pursuant to statutory authority, and when necessary to make a statute effective, although not a statute, may have the force of law. Fawcus Machine Co. v. United States, 282 U.S. 375, 51 S.Ct. 144, 76 L.Ed. 397; Commissioner of Internal Revenue v. South Texas Lumber Co., 333 U.S. 496, 601, 68 S.Ct. 695, 92 L.Ed. 831.” U.S. v. Fisher, 353 F.2d 396 (5th Cir. 1965)
LOL
The Internal Revenue Code is a compilation of statutes titled the “Internal Revenue Code.
You people never get it.
I’m sorry I dont mean to put you down but there ARE other alternatives. Alternatives that we as citazens are required by our constitution to act upon.
Revolution.
The constitution itself clearly states…
“…when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and provide new Guards for their future security.”
Our government does not have our best interest at heart. In fact our government seeks to enslave us and the rest of the world. Something must be done and it is our right and duty to see that it is..
There’s one other way.
Stop responding to the all-caps “name” they slapped on a birth certificate tracked with a Social Security Number and said it was you. “Legalese” operates solely on “names.” company names, “person” names…
Think about it, what law requires you to have name? NONE. And if you refuse to represent that name that the charges are against, they have only one option:
Trial by jury, with is what the Fathers wanted when they created the constitution.
How could a jury convict you? THERE ARE NO WITNESSES THAT SAW YOU (IN THE FLESH AND BLOOD) WILLFULLY FAIL TO FILE! YOU CAN’T SEE SOMEBODY NOT DO SOMETHING!
“If there is no victim, there is no crime.”
Who is the victim? Nobody. If they say “The IRS” is the victim, tell them a company cannot be injured because it’s not real. Only real people can claim injuries.
Also, where is the contract? Unless it is clearly stated in these “adhesion contracts” there is no full-disclosure and it’s null and void.
Well said Mike. I agree.
…There is one thing however, and I commented on it above. In what ways is the IRS informed of what they say we owe? Cause we tell them, right? What if all we had to do was keep our mouths shut, and they would have no information telling them to collect anything. Your name wouldnt even come up… No taxes, no jail, no seizures of property, no laws or codes being violated…
I was proud to be an american, and then I learned what that really meant. This federal income tax is one of so many ways that the good honest hardworking people of this once great nation are being raped and used. And everyone else, that isnt part of congress, the government, or one of these other power groups running our lives.
I saw this page some time ago. It does make you think about things related to taxation.
www supremelaw org/sls/31answers htm
What makes me mad is that so many government officials don’t seem to pay taxes and get away with it. Even if they are found to not pay taxes, nothing really happens with them. If you are I were to not pay taxes, we would have stiff penalties and sent to jail. Just seems pretty mixed up.
It’s probably because they KNOW they do not have to pay taxes. I was watching this program that provided reasonable evidence that showed that we, the American people, are not obligated. They even had former IRS employees claim that from 1990, they haven’t been paying taxes and that was a decade ago. Now, if they are in jail, that’s unknown. Like what a few other comments said, it is unconstitutional. And like the previous comment made by vinny riddle, where he said he just tells IRS that he is does not have to legally pay taxes and they leave him alone; that is probably true.
…I know what program you are refering to. You are one of the informed.
Keep digging. Keep researching. There is much much more to learn regarding the gov. (and the other secret groups in bed with the gov.) relationship with us, as im sure you know.
I have no problem with paying an income tax… though I can’t help but think there’s a better way to fund government expenditures. However, we pay (IMHO) far too much in income taxes. If government could get it’s spending in line with reality…. then we could lower taxes across the board… and folks like you and I could keep more of our earned income.
Living in the US of A, that’s not likely to ever happen. Oh, and legality aside, Krod has a point – the US has more than enough guns to enforce payment of taxes.
Your income tax doesn’t fund a single government program. Not one single cent goes to where you think it does.
Income tax is used to pay back the interest the on the money teh Federal Reserve has loaned to the Government so we can have money and debt plus more debt.
In other words every single cent we pay in income tax winds up in the pockets of some greedy filthy low life scum sucking international banker.
…And do you know why it is you and me that pays that to them? Our BROKE gov, post International Coporate Takeover, or as we know it, WWI, borrowed money from the Federal Reserve, but in order to do this, the Federal Reserve like any other bank, required colladeral. We are that colladeral. Your birth certificate is the “Stock” held for the corporation of the US! Check your birth certificate! It will not be the original document with the issue date the same as the birth date! Thats also why it will say “Informant” by your mothers signature. The IRS was set up to make sure the Gov. pays back whats owed. Which will never happen, and it was all planned that way from the beginning. But did you ever notice the red numbers on the back side of your social security card? What do those numbers represent? Why is your name always in all caps when dealing with any form of business or govornment issues? …Find the answers to those questions and you will be on your way to being a much more free american…
I’ve hear many times the 16th amendment wasn’t ratified correctly, this led to the rise of big government. I also hear the county sheriff has the right to throw the IRS out of the county, of course 99.9% of county sheriffs don’t know this.
Here is a great link to Harry Reid trying to clarify the fact that our system of taxation is voluntary…I bet he is confusing lots of people in the process.
http://www.freeliberal.com/blog/archives/003277.php
All I have to say is we the people let things happin. We don’t stand up for are rights anymore. There are millions of people in America that are brain washed and still slaves to the worlds bs. Yes slaverly still is here its just more organized. And them taxing us is proof stuff will never change until people stand up for there rights and stop being controled peace.
First, The federal income tax is unconstitutional because it is not apportioned as the Constitution clearly states all taxes must be. Second, the 16th Amendment was never ratified according to the procedures as set forth in the Constitution. Third, the income tax (when you read the law) only applies to businesses and corporations. There is nothing in the law that requires an individual to pay a personal income tax.
The distinction is in legal wording. Income is a legal word that applies to business profits. Earnings is a legal word that applies to wages, etc. based on an individuals labor.
Even the IRS’s own documents substantiate this fact. The IRS clearly states that the income tax, as it applies to an individual, is a voluntary tax. Furthermore, under IRS regulations, it states that the IRS has the authority to seize business property and assets. It has no power to seize personal property or assets.
But if other people want to keep paying taxes that they have no legal need to pay then they can keep paying. The IRS won’t stop them.
Further more, the amount of revenue that the IRS generates each year, based on the taxation of personal income, fails to pay for anything in the Federal government budget aside from interest on the national debt. Any monkey can see that this has been the case since the income tax and the federal reserve came into existence with each budget year.
It’s funny how a lot of you run to defend your slave masters! First of all, all of your income tax goes into the pockets of private bankers known as the Federal Reserve. Not one cent goes to pay for any government function! Everything is taxed from gasoline to your property taxes, that money goes to pay for services NOT the income tax!
Furthermore the supreme court has ruled that the 16th amendment gave the IRS “No new taxing powers”. So if they didn’t have it before, they didn’t have it afterwords!
And the supreme court has also defined income as “profits or gains” from corporate activity.
To put it simply. If you run a business where you pay employees to do the work, you owe taxes on the profit of the business. That’s perfectly legal. But you, the average American working 9-5 does not have “income” as defined by the supreme court and the tax code.
No one is arguing that the tax code is written incorrectly. It’s just very misunderstood.
Why does the government continue to put people in jail over a debt owed to a private banking system?? This is tyranny! Why not sit down with the “tax protesters” and very clearly say “this is where you are required to pay”.
Take Ed and Elaine Brown for example. An elderly couple who wanted nothing more than to see the law they were allegedly breaking. Instead the government spent millions of dollars to take them down and did so with violence and force rather than simply saying “here is the law. Now please pay the banking cartels their money”.
We are living in tyranny! Do I pay my income tax? Hell yes. Is there a law to do so? No! But they have the guns.
But tell me, is this America? This is what our forefathers died for? Anyone who doesn’t see the tyranny and defends the slave masters doesn’t deserve to breathe the air of this country!
Well said Chris!
Ive commented above on this, but how do they know we owe? Cause we tell them how much we made, right? SO what if they didnt know that we owed?…
1) The term “income tax” can be used by the US government and its courts to
If the person making a payment to you wants to report the payment even
describe revenue laws generally, or it can be used to describe a specific type
of tax.
2) 16th Amendment “income” and the ordinary “compensation for labor” of the
average American are not the same thing.
3) Each subtitle (A through E) of the IRC imposes a completely different type of
tax and subtitle C taxes are not the same tax as subtitle A taxes.
4) No tax law can apply to you if in doing so it would violate one or more of your
“unalienable rights” (unless it is a direct tax).
5) One of your unalienable rights is to exchange your labor for other forms of
property (including money) without having to give a percentage to the
government. The only way the government can tax such compensation is
with a direct tax, and Congress has not imposed a direct tax upon
compensation for labor.
6) You need not provide an identifying number if you’ve determined the
transaction is not taxable.
7) No reporting is required if you’ve determined that the transaction is not
taxable to you.
after you’ve made the determination that it not a taxable transaction, that
person may do so without a number and must affix the appropriate affidavit
to the information return. [Click on Contact Us for the affidavit.]
9) Under the regulations created by the Secretary of the Treasury for tax
matters, a person making a payment to you has no other remedy than the
steps specified in item 8 if you refuse to provide a number. Actions such as
firing you, or withholding payments owed, are not lawful options because no
law specifies such conduct as a remedy.
10) It is our responsibility to inform our friends and neighbors of these truths.
Sending them the URL for this page
[www.originalintent.org/fedincometax.shtml] is one great way to do that!
Most are ignorant or afraid or both. We should endeavor to cure their
ignorance and give them sufficient information and support so that they need
no longer fear the IRS.
11) Despite the illegal and immoral conduct of the government [most notably the
Treasury Department, the IRS, and the US Department of Justice, Tax
Division] the truth is that US Individual Income Tax applies primarily to
aliens and only to working American Citizens in very narrow circumstances
that are not generally applicable to the public at large.
If it was not a law to pay taxes, then obviously by now, with the many, many people that have fought having to pay taxes…someone, somewhere would have won a court case and not had to pay taxes therefore opening it up to everyone not having to pay taxes…
…this has not been done…pay your taxes, it’s the law
MIAMI — Helio Castroneves has kept his cool at speeds of more than 200 mph. Once, he collided with another race car and a wall — and walked away. He barely broke a sweat when he won the “Dancing with the Stars” TV contest in 2007.
But during his federal tax-evasion trial, Castroneves, 33, was often emotional, openly sobbing in the courtroom and in front of the TV cameras outside.
On Friday, a federal jury acquitted Castroneves on six counts of tax evasion but hung on one count of conspiracy, and Castroneves again dissolved into tears — of relief.
The jury also acquitted his sister, Katiucia Castroneves, 35, who is his business manager, on the tax-evasion counts but also was unable to reach a verdict on the conspiracy charge.
Michigan motorsports attorney Alan Miller, 71, was acquitted on all three counts of tax evasion and one count of conspiracy. The jury deliberated six days after a six-week trial.
While the prosecution said it would review its options on the conspiracy charge, Castroneves’ lawyers said it would be “illogical to proceed” with refiling.
Castroneves, meanwhile, talked only about racing. “Instead of going to Disneyland, I want to go to Long Beach to race,” he said, saying he was headed to California to race in this weekend’s event for Team Penske.
He was charged with working with his sister and lawyer to evade more than $2.3 million in U.S. income taxes.
Read more: http://www.denverpost.com/motorsports/ci_12168746#ixzz0f69yZzF9
Look up Tom Cryer.
Yes it has happened time and time again, please research, the media owners for some reason don’t want you to hear about these cases.
if we don’t have to file our taxes! then why is that people’s are getting in troubles with the IRS?
Any lawyer would know that terms used in legal documents often have specific definitions for the purpose of said documents. If we look at title 26 what are the definitions of:
1. Individuals
2. Income
3. Employees
4. Employers
5. Wages
If you look, you will find the law does say we have to pay taxes. The question isn’t if we do or not. The question is which ones of us are taxpayers and which ones of us are NOT taxpayers.
Long v. Rasmussen, 281 F. 236 (1922)
“The revenue laws are a code or system in regulation of tax assessment and collection. They relate to taxpayers, and not to nontaxpayers. The latter are without their scope. No procedure is prescribed for nontaxpayers, and no attempt is made to annul any of their rights and remedies in due course of law. With them Congress does not assume to deal, and they are neither of the subject nor of the object of the revenue laws…”
[Long v. Rasmussen, 281 F. 236 (1922)]
The IRS failed to actually define the word “Income” anywhere in their IR Code manual.
Therefore it falls to the definition that is given by the US Constitution in article 1.
Income is described there as profit from corporate gain. This excludes wages from labor and services. Also the US Supreme court found that it is an excise tax and therefore also doesn’t apply to work wages.
You might look at the case of Atty Tom Cryer who did beat the IRS along with several others.
It’s also interesting that in the IR code manual, that it specifically states that people assess their tax liability and pay on a voluntary basis. This is also stated in Federal tax regulation 601.602
And as one comment noted, the 16th Amendment was never legally ratified as at least 13 states broke the laws in their own state constitutions by voting on it before their next legislative meeting was held as required by state laws. Sec. of State Knox needed 36 state votes-he never legally got them.
In fact it appears that the Sec of State in 1911, might have been bribed by those in the federal banking system to try and pass the 16th amendment as a way to collect the ‘interest’ from the national debt so as to gain control of the nation’s wealth.
These guys make Madoff look like a boyscout in comparison with the ripoff they’ve done to this country.
Plus the Supreme court also ruled that the 16th didn’t give anymore power to Congress than it already had because they have the power to lay taxes on the land as per the GUIDELINES of the Constitution. The Constitution was specific that all taxes had to be apportioned to the populous. To go against this would be have to be based on corruption and greed.
Most of the federal taxes goes into their pockets. Some goes to the DOD and some goes to appropriate programs.
If you file a return you then enter into a type of legal contract with the government.
At that point you are liable.
If you don’t then by legal rights under the US Constitution it’s strictly voluntary!
I love guys like you.
So if “speed” isn’t defined by law I can legally drive as fast as I want? Or even better, I’ll have to see how “murder” is defined.
saladdin
Don’t we follow the constitution of the United States not the IRS?
Which gives the government the right to make laws like income tax.
Just because you want something not to be legit doesn’t make it so.
saladdin
Your logic looks good on paper, my friend.
However, look inot the real history (not that taught in schools) of U.S. income tax and the Federal Reserve Act.
Like they say, “Talk what you KNOW.”
I know if you don’t pay you go to jail.
saladdin
Thats all fine and dandy i guess, but it would be differant if our income tax didnt go to priveatly owned banks that are not controled by the US government to pay intrest on loans made by our government (bank of england,,citi bank,,world bank) they control our economy and our well being and our future and the world..i was born a slave to bankers. i will only be free when the federal reserve is deleated from our system of so called freedom…give me control of a nations money and i care not who makes the laws (M rothechild)…..I need a country of workers not thinkers (J D Rockafeller….wake up
What about the 16th amendment and our constitution? The word “income” was defined by the supreme court in 1916 as a profit or gain from a corporation. Not an individual. The IRS is violating the constituitionial rights of Americans by implementing this fraud. Watch this documentary- America, Freedom to Facism. And u will get you complete argument. This documentary quotes and interviews, presidents, governors, senators, lawyers, and former IRS agents that seeked the truth and found a whole heep of lies. If paying your personal income tax is legal. Show me the law, not a section in the IRS handbook. Sections 26 is not in accordiance with the constitution. Read it! Watch the documentary and see why our government is hiding the truth.
well i hate to tell you fellas but I agree with the statements. I think that duh if it is volutary them we all cooperate and refuse to pay GOOD LUCK ARESTING US ALL…I say Im looking into it I wanna know if there are people out there that actually dont pay and are not arrested!!!
I dont pay taxes, never have, never will, what the hell is wrong with you…Are you just retarded? Constitution is for us to protect us, nothing else matters but that…
I love this comment. …So do you just not report any income? Forgive our ignorance, or the society we were raised in, but I think the majority on here would like to know how you dont pay?
It is time for a New Revolution. A revolution is a fundamental change in power or organizational structures that takes place in a relatively short period of time. It is time….
well indeed u cannot however without a very extensive plan of how to restore order in socitey. the whole thing is NULL because we will back in the same boat or worse since anarchy is no awswer however society in general is the problelm people are creatures designed not to be as social as we are this is why we are always killing each other and getting in fights before civilazation we were only concerned with eating sleeping and living and thats it now there is so much BS its not funny PS dont say the R word but we AgR_eE _we_R*HEr-e-^ne-ver back down ****Am3r*i_can*re-zist*ance_Move-*ment*****
Just let me know I am in.
Hey folks, don’t you know that every politician is a two faced lair. I voted 4 Obama because he was the lesser of two evils and Sarah Palin is DUMB. Now with the legality of taxes, Landowners were our founding fathers and your ancestors at the time were indentured servants and slaves (white,black,latino,indian)who made sure there was no sharing the wealth so the poor could move in their hood lol! The tax laws are bullsh#t and lawyers and professors and judges protect that title 26 because they would not be in the favor of the special interest who back their campaigns and lace their pockets. If folks are kicking their butts showing the truth about the tax laws their getting ganged upon and thrown in jail. One day the govt’s going to tell people to jump off their nearest bridge (to resolve some of that money they owe China) and half this country will do it. Richard Steele, Obama are politicians who uphold the bullsh#t along with all those old as# White guys and some token minorities who collect a big checks and never come to your communities to see how your doing or what your going through. We got loved one’s dying in a BS war where they could just drop a bomb and fu#k up everything moving hell, we are getting bomb dropped on us everyday – just get sick an go to a ER
everybody stop paying!!! just get the word out to everyone and set a date for everybody to stop paying the a@@HOLES! then what will they do? NOTHING BUT CRY!!! KEEP THE MONEY YOU WORK FOR!! its crazy to just give it away……
all you have to do is go to your employer and tell them you need to change your taxes to exempt… then they will not take out taxes…get the word out for january 1 2011 and EVERYONE JUST STOP PAYING!!
In your quote “There is hereby imposed on the taxable income of every individual … who is not a married individual a tax determined in accordance with the following table ….” what is “taxable income” as defined by the Constitution and the USC? They both exclude wages as “income”….
not one red cent of the money you pay in federal income tax goes to running the government..not one thin dime..
it goes straight to the 13 PRIVATE owners of the PRIVATE federal reserve money monopoly/cartel to pay off the national debt.. the 12 trillion + interest owed by Americans to the private banksters for paper money and computer digits made FROM THIN AIR..NOTHING
this is w/o a doubt the biggest racket/fraud/con/scam and deception in the history of the world..the IRS is nothing but the enforcement arm for these private federal reserve banksters..[the "federal" reserve is in fact as federal as "federal express" they're not!]
this entire charade takes place outside of constitutional law IMO..
“the PRIVATE federal reserve corporation is in fact above the law,
and accountable to no one” – Sir Alan Greenspan
I think its unconstitutional. As an american citzen born and raised i see no point to pay income taxes. But what about welfare and stuff like this? we dont need to support bums who dont want to hustle and make a living for themselves.There are people who are really disabled but we should have some sort of tax to help them not 30 to 40 percent! and why should a millionaire give up a whole bunch of his income? This was only supposed to pay for ww2 as most of you folks already know so why not abolish this?
“Invisible Contracts” What most people don’t understand is that the Supreme Court ruled in 1896 in a case called Davis vs. Elmira Savings, 161 U.S. 275 that banks are instrumentalities of the Congress. Your bank account contract is the exclusive Equity instrument that initiates the attachment of liability for the positive administrative mandates of Title 26. In other words, the interstate system of banks is the private property of the King. This means that any profit or gain anyone experienced by a bank/thrift and loan/employee credit union — any regulated financial institution carries with it — as an operation of law — the identical same full force and effect as if the King himself created the gain. So as an operation of law, anyone who has a depository relationship, or a credit relationship, with a bank, such as checking, savings, CD’s, charge cards, car loans, real estate mortgages, etc., are experiencing profit and gain created by the King — so says the Supreme Court. In the words of Supreme Court Justice Felix Frankfurter: “Equity is brutal, but we are merely enforcing agreements.” Or in other words, Judges don’t like the idea of being thought upon as being mean gestapo agents — doing the dirty work for the King. They consider themselves as being struck between a rock and a hard spot — being asked to enforce agreements and without being given any valid reason as to why you should be let out of it — other than you just don’t feel like being incarcerated. So what happens during these (Willful Failure to File) trials is that: 1. The Intelligence Division of the IRS surveys the local banks in the vicinity of the tax protester, and obtains copies of the protester’s signature card and financial transactions statements from the bank. 2. At the time the U.S. Attorney requests the Judge to sign the Summons, the Judge has been presented with your bank account information. So now during the prosecution the Federal Judge is sitting up there on the bench with your agreement with the King in front of him while the tax protester argues: “Well, Judge, the Fourth Amendment says…” “Judge, the Fifth Amendment says I don’t gotta…” Are you beginning to see why the Judge is prone to experience frustration and blurt out “the Constitution does not apply here!”? Meanwhile, the Judge is ignoring all Constitutionally related arguments and denying all motions. If you would go back to your bank and ask the manager to show you your signature card again, in small print you will see the words: “The undersigned hereby agrees to abide by all of the Rules of this Bank.” Have you ever asked to see a copy of the bank rules? If you have, you will read and find out that you agreed to abide by all of the administrative rulings of the Secretary of the Treasury, among many other things. What is really happening in these Willful Failure to File prosecutions is that the Judge is operating on the penal clause to a civil contract. And since you have agreed to be bound by Title 26, what difference does it make whether or not Title 26 was ever enacted by the Congress? A contract does not have to be enacted by Congress — in whole or in part — in order to make it enforceable. As for the actual taxation itself, what happens is that the King creates a “juristic personality” at the time you open your bank account. And it is that juristic personality (its income and assets) that the King’s Agents are “excising” back to the King. But in any event, the taxing power of the Congress attaches by contract or use of the King’s property. The Congress does not have the jurisdiction to use the police powers to raise revenue. That is the proper way (the ideal Alice in Wonderland way actually) to collect taxes, and that is the procedure by which Federal Judges are enforcing the law — not by ruling over gestapo Star Chambers. (I have some reservations on the modus operandi of Federal Judges to the extent that the Supreme Court mentions over and over again that: “Justice must satisfy the appearance of justice.” [Offutt vs. U.S., 348 U.S. 11] and that when a man is thoroughly convinced that he is on the right side of an issue — that justice has not satisfied the appearance of justice unless the criminal defendant is aware that he did wrong. And on these tax protester trials, that requires a sentencing hearing lecture by the judge to the defendant on why and where the defendant did err. So I disagree with the modus operandi of Federal Judges to this extent). So, in conclusion on this issue, if the 16th Amendment were somehow repealed tomorrow morning at 9:00am — it would not change a single thing (other than the IRS would have to start giving people a correct presentation of the law to justify the taxes). The IRS and the excise tax on juristic persons would continue on as usual. As it pertains to the proposed restraining order the King’s Agents are trying to get against you and your alter ego, please get a copy of the Complaint filed by U.S. Attorney Charles Magnuson dated January 31, 1984 — and turn to page 9. Examine the last five words in paragraph “b”: “…under the Court’s equity powers.” The charge against you is legitimate to the extent that you are in written contractual equity with the King. When you trace back the genealogy of your signature on your bank card, you will find that you agreed to be bound by Title 26, and under Section 7202 you agreed not to disseminate any fraudulent tax advice. And the concept that Federal Reserve Notes are not taxable instruments of commerce — for any reason — when the person has a written agreement with the King saying that FRN’s are taxable — this concept is in fact fraudulent. The Federal Judge probably is not going to want to disclose what document it is that you executed which created the attachment of equity jurisdiction. They have been asked not to let the cat out of the bag. The IRS handles this “bank account = equity relationship” on a military style “need-to-know” only type basis. You can file a Mandamus in the Circuit Court of Appeals or petition for a Subpoena Duces Tecum returnable against the U.S. Attorney to compel discovery of what it is that you signed that created the attachment of equity jurisdiction the King’s Agents are now acting under. This type of equity jurisdiction always attaches by written consent. Get rid of your bank accounts and your argument would then be— that you are not in an equity relationship with the King anymore. Then the Constitution would apply, but it does not apply to you now since you are in an equity relationship with the King — and private agreements overrule the Bill of Rights.
F-ucken aaaaa. andrews information make so much sense… it seems that not too long ago it stated right on your tax form that it was a voluntary and under the penalty of perjury all statement herein are truthfull bla bla… you sign it and something comes up different for that tax year then wack! I thought that this country does not have a king… if it is this angle they use to enforce this bull shit illusion..then i think that a third party candidate should run with all of this shit exposed! Get a vote to once and for all cut this back door relationship… and truly make this country a democracy. To have a bank account ..you must agree to stoop to a king… this information showsthat the revolution was a farce plain a simple… The king was probably financing the revolution and supposedly loose the war to re-capture the people coming to the “new world” for “freedom” all along they were farming the masses for continued harvest…Andrew you make a hell of an argument… All of you copy this essay and put it everywhere…once everyone gets to learn about this ..there will be zero fear of the irs… because the connection would have been broken… This is why the check cashing industry has been allowed to flourish because they cannot closed… spread this information that andrew put out there…if you do not believe him go to your banks and ask to see the written agreements that outlines your agreement between the bank and yourself…if it says what andrew say it does… close you accounts and send money oders… the U.S, post office will sell them to you without asking questions as long as they are under $2,999 I am sick of this crap… we should make a run on all the bank and make them credit unions etc. without the agreement….. If someone opened up a bank that did not have this sgreement wow… there would be deposits up the ying yang…
the tax code cannot trump The Constitution and The constitution says no taxes on income earned from your labor
Private agreements overrule the Bill of Rights.
Please read my post above (3/10 6:15pm) “Invisible Contracts”
Some of you guys are ridiculous. Nevermind the constitution or anything else, we have to pay taxes. Facts are irrelevant. We have NO rights other than the ones we have to fight for – and if you have to fight, it isn’t a right. Freedom IS free. If someone tells you, “freedom isn’t free”, they are part of the system that is against the masses. If it is a right, you don’t have to fight for it.
That is the most flawed argument I think I have ever heard. So under your logic Black people didn’t have a right not to be a slave before it was abolished. I would argue the opposite, any right that you don’t stand up and fight for is a right that will be trampled on and lost. Freedom is and probably never will be free, you must fight hard for freedom or be enslaved.
AMERICA THE FREE, PLEASE PLAY ME IN TAXES.
Tax the earth, tax my birth. Tax the land you say I own. Tax the home I think I own. Tax the door. Tax the walkway to that door. Penalize more taxes to that home should I repair some stone. Tax the right to own, a fee to roam, for it’s not long to have that home.
Tax my bed. Tax my table, at which I am fed. Tax me deep, I need not sleep. Tax my car. Tax the gas. Don’t worry about taxing the fuels of my anger, for you have taxed all others, so to add employment for your brothers.
Tax my cat. Tax my dog. Tax my shoes. Don’t forget to tax my coat. You have managed to tax my goat. Tax the young. Tax the tired. Tax the cold, for all those taxes wont grow old. No plea for joy, only a speechless ploy. Go ahead and squeeze me for much much more.
Tax my truck. Tax the plates I place upon that truck. Tax it heavy, just like a mule. Tax it equal to the load It carries , no need to enter school. Teach me that taxes are the rule. Don’t pass an attempt to attach another tax to say you must, so now comes the time to tax my ass.
Tax my work, Tax my new blue jeans I wore to work. Tax my pay, allow no time to play. Allow me to work all day for taxes are all I need to pay. I have no time to spend one dime from all the taxes you say are mine. Remove from my paycheck , and send me back what you cannot spend, I will accept this abuse, for what’s the use ? You will give those taxes you say are mine to the wealthy so they stay healthy.
Tax my tobacco, along with the sins of my drink. Tax the smell of my cigars, and the beer I burp, and should I cry, have no fear to tax my tears. Tax me in a blink, should I decide to think. I hate to play, so make me pay. More taxes are here to stay. Tax the short, tax the tall, tax us all, and don’t throw sticks, tax the sick, no matter if they cry tell them taxes never die.
Tax the old, It will be bold. I’ve been told I too am growing old. For all those hours I have worked, still new taxes were un-corked. I need no place to land, as it stands I was sent a fax. My work was given the ax. Should I holler and scream, and lose some steam, don’t arrest I need some rest, don’t place me in a cage, just blame it on my age.
Tax any and all I have, then let me know that you wont be done, as you have taxed me to the bone. Then when all is said and done, tax my coffin, and to satisfy your crave, by all means tax my grave.
Tax the sod in which I am laid. Place these words upon my tomb, “ Taxes carted my dumb ass here, and I no longer have the time to play nor means to pay.” I am gone, it’s not long to max the tax on my death, so I leave you this request. You a need a tomb for taxes, as the rich are rich enough and the poor are poor enough, and your voices not loud enough. When your voices are un-employed, work may be the least of your worries. You will need to work – work – work more hours as they will not relax the tax, so my last advice is to take ex-lax . THEY WILL NOT LET YOU PASS, YOU TOO WILL TAKE IT IN THE ASS!
What do Politicians, hot air and taxes have in common? Politicians are full of hot air and taxes always rise. Do you know the difference between the acronyms of IRS and KGB? Only the spelling.
Sincerely;
Butch Sanders
That was awesome!
I dare you to ask them to define the differences between “taxable income” and “income”
Listen folks, INCOME is not defined by the IRS Code Book. Ask any so called TAX EXPERT to show you where it is defined. The idiot who runs this site quotes “taxable income”, if you say you have taxable income then you do. If ”
income” is not defined, then you could say “taxable anything”. Americans are the most stupid people on earth, logic and common sense can be bought only in this stupid country, no where else. The Constitution by itself is not Law, except to the individual. The Government must pass a law which does not conflict with the Constitution, which law was passed that makes average Joe’s paycheck income?
That law this web page mentions, says that we all have to pay taxable income. It does, however fail to explain what taxable income is. Looking into it further, (within the titles) taxable income is defined as income made from the dealings, if you will from sources outside the United States.
In the end we all read the same thing, but take with it different ideas and or meanings. Its very, very easy to say, hey, its been this way forever. And, see, we have this 500 page book that explains why you have to pay taxes, so deal with it and pay it. That is not a viable reason. Nor is “its the law” an acceptable excuse either. The people are the law. If the majority raises up and says, NO, then it becomes law. The people make the laws. Or thats how its supposed to work. Obviously, and not one person here can argue this, big money runs the government and thus the laws. I mean, even the most tired, most lazy of all Americans, are slowly, seeing that this is fact. Im a patriot. We do in fact have taxation without representation. How do I know? Ask anyone, or rather any, average anyone, how they enjoy the taxes. No one wants them and all believe they are too high, yet government, all federal, state and local, continue to raise them and, add even more. There are taxes on just about every single thing in America. And in some cases, a tax, on a tax. Silly.
It might take another 100 years, but DC will be met with millions of patriots, with more than signs in thier hands. And they will demand democracy, or else. Thats just a simple, logical thought. Its obvious a revolution will happen again. Unless of course China/Russia decides to take us out first.
Hey, I agree with some of the satements and disagree. The reason why most pay taxes is because you are subject citizens, under the 14th amendment and therefor responsible for the national debt which is around 6trillion plus. Also if u read into further detail, certain native americans who are now citizens are NOT subject to tax provided that such treaties were formed with there tribal government. Also, if u read law dictionaries a person is defined as a corporation And also if u read Section 2 of the 14th amendment, youll find the same. The problem is that the IRS is almost acting as if it holds the supreme law, but the last time i checked, the constitution trumps everything in a since. Just like one of the readers said we are being lied to
A child buys a soda at a local store far from a teen or tween but as he ,or she pays the register rings an extra 8 cents or more for uncle Sam. This child is contributing more than anyone believes because he or she buys more than 5 sodas a month for the rest of theirs life’s and the gov. ran school teaches this child that then Boston tea party was the ethical thing as for us lets quit taking candy from the babies to support are misled bureaucratic lobbyist only shake my hand during campaigns representative of me political bull?hitters on someone will push a bill that are must show how much taxes the PRESIDENT pays a month if his net pay
Jim… Could you post your bio?
A short bio is available here:
http://www.bargaineering.com/articles/about-me-and-this-site
Let me start by saying I hate the income taxt. I feel it is unfair and should be replaced by a national flat rate or sales tax, properly ratified of course.
However claims that the 16th Ammendment was never ratified are incorrect. 42 states ratified the ammendment the last being Delaware on 2/3/1913. 3 states rejected the ammendment and 3 states never even took it up (being only 48 states at the time).
The interesting thing is that the majority of support for the tax was from the western states and the most resistance was from the East with 5 of the 6 from the east coast and most of the late ratifiers were along the eastern side of the country. This is opposite of what you would expect today, California being the exception (as usuall).
Please read this article and let me know if you still think it was legally ratified.
Please read this article and let me know if you still think it was legally ratified.
http://www.apfn.net/Doc-100_bankruptcy20.htm
If you ‘Google’ this- IRS LOSES CHALLENGE TO PROVE TAX LIABILITY, you can read all of the related articles on the web. It seems as though there isn’t a law that requires one to pay taxes on their ‘labor’. Federal income tax is a tax on ‘profits’ & ‘gains’. One’s labor is NOT a profit or a gain because there was an even exchange. If a person wins a lottery for $1 Million because he or she bought a $1 ticket, that WOULD be a ‘profit’ or a ‘gain’. However, if that same person paints your house for $3,000 and did it all by himself without the aid of any employees, then the $3,000 is not taxable because it was a result of his ‘labor’. Thank You
Did not answer question…who is liable…and what is Taxable income???
There is hereby imposed on the taxable income of every individual … who is not a married individual a tax determined in accordance with the following table ….
A serious question here. We’re a “democracy” are we not? Many of us here would say no that it is just a ruse to swindle the American pub lic into obediance. Let us prove or disprove that.
Why don’t we start a petition? A petition based upon the evidence shown in this forum.
It is one thing to talk about it what we should do, or tell everyone to stop paying taxes. It’s a completely different thing to actually take that action. If enough of us sign and pledge that we agree that this is a fraudulent law/tax/ect… then we will see if they act on the behalf of Americans like they should or if they will stay their course.
One true thing about the internet is that Anonymous is legion. This means many things but mostly it means we are composed of many individuals from many walks of life. Six degrees of Separation means everyone on this planet knows everyone else through no more than six other people. Let’s test that theory as well…
Make this public, get it into the eyes of everyone. And some cunning linguist please write up a god damned petition.
Supreme court defines income as profits and gains, not personal labor. Therefore we as working individuals have a right not to pay federal taxes.
If you ‘Google’ this- AMERICA: FREEDOM TO FASCISM, and watch it on the web, you’ll be able to see and hear former IRS agents saying that there isn’t a ‘law’ that requires an American to pay taxes on his or her ‘labor’. It seems as though Americans have been misled, or confused, about what’s really true in regards to Federal Income Tax. Thank You. P.S. Don’t forget to ‘Google’ this- IRS LOSES CHALLENGE TO PROVE TAX LIABILITY, and read the related articles on the web.
To the person that asked if we are a Democracy, No we are a Republic, huge difference.
Actually, we are an “Emergency Military Police State” if i’m not mistaken.
As far as taxation, I think there should be a flat rate with no deductions or games – 7% – and taken out of pay if you have that kind of employment.
What bothers me more than the fact that we have to pay taxes to avoid incarceration is the invasion of privacy. Why is it another’s business what we make? Health care reform is worrisome for this reason – I do not want any health care provider to be privy to our financial information. Medical insurance requires a social security number, and it is absolutely none of their business – but their business is to send people to the poorhouse because only THEY are worthy of income. Speaking for my own household, income taxes are not a threat to our success and comfort – but the health care system is a terrifying threat, as we are not multi-millionaires.
Have you ever wondered why the IRS writers will simply refuse to print a single word about anything that makes them look wrong about anything whatsoever? Isn’t rather odd that IRS are this insecure? ISNT IT RATHER ODD THAT THE IRS ARE THIS INSECURE? Seriously, folks, this isn’t a hard one. All “TAXPAYERS” must file. Now STOP RIGHT THERE! Before you go any further, go grab an authoritative legal dictionary. After all, we need to know that the legal definition of “taxpayer”, “must”, and “file” are the words we think they are. Can you see a problem here? There is no authoritative legal dictionary (that is a Lawyer, remember?), and so these words are left open to interpretation, as the authors of IRS related propaganda exploit constantly. If the IRS wants my money, I want the IRS to actually give me something in return.
==== A Short Poem About The IRS (by cattlefraud)=====
We’re the IRS, and “we’re important”.
We’re the IRS, and we’re sort of a part of the US Govt, but nobody knows for sure.
We’re the IRS, and if you sign these papers, we become real.
We’re the IRS, and we vouch for ourselves, isn’t that good enough?
We’re the IRS, and we aggressively remove information that attempts to put us in a “bad light”.
We’re the IRS, and we have so many internal codes that people get bored of calling our bluff. Besides, they would be dead of natural causes before they finished reading our definitions of ourselves, which WE the IRS get to make, and YOU DUMB little citizens are helpless to derail. Ha Ha, suckers, we’re the IRS, and you just signed your rights away on this rediculous piece of nonsense commonly referred to as W-2.
We’re the IRS, and we’ll harrass your employer until you enter into a contract with us. See what happens when you try to call our bluff? The IRS will go out of their way to take your money. Which is sort of pointless, why don’t they go buy their own country, and just turn all of the “citizens” into full time slaves? Who wants to fight with “Tax Protesters” about the letter of the law anyway?
We’re the IRS, and our forms are really official looking.
We’re the IRS, and we hate it when you question anything that we say.
We’re the IRS, and the more we say that, the more it becomes real.
blah blah blahg
Hi there, just curious, but I was trying to do a bit of research. I’m drawing a blank for finding when it became a law. What year?