am i liable to pay income tax?

i am in nevada. my question is about income tax. lately i have been hearing from several sources that i am not liable or obligated to pay any income tax. they say that there is no law in the i.r.s. tax code book that says i need to report my income, nor pay taxes on this income. i want to know if a law exists that states i must pay taxes on my income. and if so where is it? also if there is a law, how come so many people are doing it. shouldn't they be in jail? my mother seems to think so, she also thinks they should live in another country. what exactly do we need to do in regard to taxes. you mention in several questions that "if you are obligated to file, then file" Who is obligated, where is that defined, because i cannot find it in the i.r.s. tax code book, nor in the constitution

The tax is imposed in Section 1 of the Internal Revenue Code. Over the years many groups have tried to argue in the Supreme Court that the tax is not constitutional or that it does not apply to them. The Supreme Court has long age decided the tax is valid.

It is a crime to avoid the income tax. All professionals know this. Only people who have no legal training and do not know how to properly research the law think that the tax is not valid or that people are not subject to it.

[crager34]

Congresswoman Barbara Kennelly of Connecticut has cited both Legislative Counsel and the Congressional Research Service in her claim that the term "state", as found in 26 U.S.C. 3121(e) [Subtitle C - Employment Taxes], means only the named federal territories and possessions of the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, the Virgin Islands, Guam and American Samoa and does not include the fifty states of the Union. This, of course, would mean that employers' "withholding" of moneys from the paychecks of the vast majority of Americans lo these many years must be the result of one of the biggest misunderstandings in the history of man.

The tax imposed in Section 1 of the IRS Code is Constitutional as written.

It is a crime to avoid the Income Tax, if you are liable for it.

One does not have to be a professional to know this.

It's a pretty arrogant statement to say that "Only people who have no legal training and who do not know how to properly research the law think...."

Mr. Professional:
(a) Please provide me with the specific statute and implementing federal regulation that impose upon most American's a liability for the payment of an income tax.
(b) Please provide me with the specific statute and implementing federal regulation that impose upon most American's a liability for the filing of an 'income tax return'.


After all... the World is very round and the Earth, does indeed revolve around the sun.

[Edited by crager34 on 02-15-2001 at 09:44 AM]

[HomeGuru]

crager34,
loku has been an excellent contributor on this forum and I am disappointed in you. You were tactful in the beginning but now your true colors are showing. It is obvious that you are using this forum to broadcast your own personal agenda with respect to tax liability and not paying taxes. According to the IRS, your views are in the same category of a tax protestor. There is a big difference between tax avoidance and tax protestor.
The bottomline and true test is what the IRS states and not what you advise the readers to do or to read. So if the writers want the correct respsonse, they can always contact the IRS, an enrolled agent or a tax attorney for the correct answer.

I am bringing up one of your original posts out of the archives, to show you that you were playing games from the time you first started on this website. That is why I did not respond to your later post when you wished to argue the point.

[crager34]

Loku HAS been excellant and I have noted that on a few occasions. I was not playing games when I first started...I was asking the opinions of the "professionals" associated with this forum a geniune question, which no one could answer. The same questions that I asked the IRS and they could not and would not answer.

If the IRS's views and lables me a "tax protester", I am sure I could prove them wrong on that issue.

In the IRS's dealings with us common folk, they use the very information that I and loku have supplied here. My first and continued point or "agenda" is this: If we are to be liable under ANY law, we should be fully informed of what that law is. One does not and should not have to be a "professional" to do that.

"American citizens and permanent resident aliens, living and working within the States of the Union ARE NOT SUBJECT to the filing of an IRS Form 1040 and ARE NOT LIABLE for the payment of a tax on income."

AGAIN, I'D LIKE TO POINT OUT TO YOU THAT..... for over 16 years (SINCE 1984).....not a single accountant, CPA, tax attorney, politician, college professor or student, judge or IRS official has been able to prove this statement to be false and thus, the reward still stands!!

Did you know that NO ONE CAN LEGALLY GO TO JAIL FOR NOT SIGNING A FORM 1040?

Did you know that NO law exists or....can ever exist, requiring a U.S. citizen/resident to sign or file a FORM 1040?

We can further prove that the FORM 1040 is a voluntary form by referring to The Paperwork Reduction Act....This ACT states that in order for a form to be required, it must display ALL of the following 4 items:

1) A valid OMB # (which stands for Office of Management and Budget)

2) It must state whether or not it is an approved form

3) It must have an expiration date

4) It must state whether it is voluntary or mandatory

Now according to the Paperwork Reduction Act, if ALL FOUR items are not displayed on the form, it may be regarded as a "bootleg request" and may BE IGNORED BY THE PUBLIC!

So.... If YOU LOOK CLOSELY AT THE FORM 1040, YOU WILL ONLY FIND ONE OF THE ABOVE 4 ITEMS.... the OMB number - THE OTHER 3 ITEMS ARE STILL MISSING! This FACT makes the FORM 1040 a "bootleg request" that may be ignored by the public!

Now lets look closer at what the OMB number on FORM 1040 is all about....even there we find a huge discrepancy! The IRS Code Number 26 CFR 602.101 contains a cross-reference table - showing that the only form authorized for use in filing a "U.S. Individual Income Tax Return" is assigned OMB# 1545-0067, and so naturally you would think that that is the OMB number on the FORM 1040, however, it is NOT.... IN FACT....That number only appears on FORM 2555, which is entitled "Foreign Earned Income."

FORM 1040 is assigned OMB #1545-0074

"... 100% of what is collected is absorbed solely by interest on the Federal Debt ... all individual income tax revenues are gone before one nickel is spent on the services taxpayers expect from government".

1984 Grace Commission report submitted to President Ronald Reagan

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"Let me point this out now. This is where the structure of the income tax and Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms tax differs: Your income tax is 100% voluntary and your liquor tax is a 100% enforced tax. Now the situation is as different as night and day. Consequently, your same rules will not apply."

Dwight E. Avis, Director of Alcohol, Tobacco & Firearms, Investigation of the IRS and It's Laws, House Ways & Means Committee. February 3, 1953, page 13, Congressional Record.

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"I don't like the income tax. Every time we talk about these taxes we get around to the idea of 'from each according to his capacity and to each according to his needs'. That's socialism. It's written into the Communist Manifesto. Maybe we ought to see that every person who gets a tax return receives a copy of the Communist Manifesto with it so he can see what's happening to him.."

T. Coleman Andrews, Commissioner of Internal Revenue, May 25, 1956 in U.S. News & World Report.

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"In a recent conversation with an official at the Internal Revenue Service, I was amazed when he told me that 'If the taxpayers of this country ever discover that the IRS operates on 90% bluff, the entire system will collapse'".

Henry Bellmon, Senator (1969)

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"If no information or return is filed, [the] Internal Revenue Service cannot assess you".

Gary Makovski, Special IRS Agent, testifying under oath in U.S. v. Lloyd

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"The United States has a system of taxation by confession".

Hugo Black, Supreme Court Justice, in U.S. v. Kahriger

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"Only the rare taxpayer would be likely to know that he could refuse to produce his records to IRS agents ... Who would believe the ironic truth that the cooperative taxpayer fares much worse than the individual who relies upon his constitutional rights".

Judge Cummings, U.S. Federal Judge, in U.S. v. Dickerson (7th Circuit 1969)

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"To lay with one hand the power of government on the property of the citizen, and with the other to bestow it on favored individuals ... is none the less robbery because it is ... called taxation".

United States Supreme Court in Loan Association v. Topeka (1874)

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"... bank records are not the depositor's private papers and having given the information to the bank, the depositor has no legitimate expectation of continued privacy ... ".

United States Supreme Court in U.S. v. Miller

[crager34]

Keep reading your information Riddler55. The more informed you are, the better. The stuff you are reading is good. Eventually, all you will need to rely on is the US Tax Code.