PERFECT TAX

AVOIDANCE

FOR  CITIZENS

or

HOW  TO

BEAT

THE  IRS

or

THE  IRS  FRAUD EXPOSED

 

 

By: Thomas T. Scambos, Jr

 


Table of Contents

Introduction____________________________________________________________

 

Chapter 1 - IMPLEMENTATION________________________________________________

General Index - United States Code Annotated________________________________

Income Duty of 1861_____________________________________________________

The Federal Employee Kickback___________________________________________

The Judges Refuse_______________________________________________________

A Note From the Commissioner____________________________________________

The Privacy Act and Paperwork Reduction Act________________________________

Notice 609______________________________________________________________

§ 6001. Notice or regulations..._____________________________________________

§ 6011. General requirement..._____________________________________________

§ 6012. Persons required to make returns_____________________________________

Structural Organization of Title____________________________________________

§ 1. Tax Imposed_______________________________________________________

4 USC § 111...Taxation affecting Federal employees; income tax________________

OMB Document Control Numbers Under 26 CFR 602.101_____________________

Treasury Decision 2313__________________________________________________

The Constitution’s Clauses_______________________________________________

Pollock v. Farmer’s Loan and Trust Co.____________________________________

The 16th Amendment - Income Tax________________________________________

Brushaber v. Union Pacific R.R. Co._______________________________________

Stanton v. Baltic Mining_________________________________________________

Flint v. Stone Tracy_____________________________________________________

Congressional Research Service___________________________________________

 

Chapter 2 - APPLICATION____________________________________________________

§ 7701. Definitions______________________________________________________

Subtitle A, Foreign Income Tax___________________________________________

§ 7701(a)(14) Withholding Agent Defined___________________________________

§ 1441. Withholding of tax on nonresident aliens_____________________________

§ 1442. Withholding of tax on foreign corporations___________________________

§ 1443. Foreign tax exempt organizations___________________________________

§ 1461. Liability for withheld tax__________________________________________

§ 6654. Failure to pay...Exceptions________________________________________

26 CFR 1.1441-5 Claiming to be a person not subject to withholding_____________

Publication 515 - Withholding Exemptions...________________________________

Subtitle C, Employment Social Security Tax_________________________________

§ 3402. Income tax collected at source______________________________________

§ 3404. Return and payment by Governmental employer_______________________

§ 3401. Definitions: Employee & Employer__________________________________

§ 3121. Definitions______________________________________________________

§ 3306. Definitions______________________________________________________

§ 7806. Construction of Title_____________________________________________

Form W-2 - Withholding statement as a Substitute W-4________________________

Wages________________________________________________________________

§ 3401. Definitions______________________________________________________

§ 3406. Backup withholding______________________________________________

§ 3451. Income tax collected at source on interest & dividends__________________

§ 6041. Information at source_____________________________________________

§ 6045. Returns of brokers________________________________________________

§ 6049. Returns regarding payments of interest (banks)________________________

§ 6042. Corporate earnings_______________________________________________

§ 6044. Patronage dividends______________________________________________

Terminate your W-4 agreement____________________________________________

§ 6724. Waiver of penalties and fines_______________________________________

§ 3403 Liability for tax__________________________________________________

Botta v. Scanlon________________________________________________________

Voluntary Compliance___________________________________________________

26 CFR 1.23-5 Renewable energy resource credit_____________________________

 

Chapter 3 - ENFORCEMENT__________________________________________________

§ 63. Taxable income defined_____________________________________________

§ 61 Gross income defined________________________________________________

§ 22. Gross income defined_______________________________________________

§ 213. Gross income (1918)_______________________________________________

§ 931. Income from sources within possessions_______________________________

26 CFR Parallel Tables, Enabling Sections_________________________________

The Canadian tax treaty_________________________________________________

ENFORCEMENT______________________________________________________

Positive Law___________________________________________________________

1 USC § 204. Codes as evidence of the laws__________________________________

The 50 Code Titles______________________________________________________

44 USC § 1505. Documents to be published in the Federal Register______________

California Bankers Assn. v. Schultz________________________________________

Published Regulations for Title 26_________________________________________

26 C.F.R. § 601.702. (Failure to Publish)___________________________________

United States v. Mersky__________________________________________________

§ 6201. Assessment Authority_____________________________________________

§ 6020. Returns prepared .... by Secretary____________________________________

Internal Revenue Manual - Assessment procedures____________________________

§ 6061 Signing of returns________________________________________________

§ 6065. Verification of returns____________________________________________

Delegation Orders - Authority to prepare and execute returns___________________

18 USC § 1030 Computer (Fraud)_________________________________________

5 U.S.C. § 556 (Burden of Proof)__________________________________________

5 U.S.C. § 558 (Imposition of sanctions)____________________________________

§ 6211. Definition of a deficiency__________________________________________

§ 6212 Notice of deficiency_______________________________________________

IMF Filing Requirement Codes___________________________________________

§ 6321. Lien for taxes____________________________________________________

§ 6331. Levy and distraint________________________________________________

Criminal Investigative Authority__________________________________________

§ 7201. Attempt to evade or defeat tax______________________________________

§ 7203. Willful failure to file______________________________________________

§ 7343. Definition of the term person______________________________________

§ 7608. Authority of officers_____________________________________________

Title 18 - Federal Crimes________________________________________________

Rule 1 - Scope_________________________________________________________

Rule 54 - Application of terms___________________________________________

State Taxation________________________________________________________

31 USC § 3121 Exemption from State Taxation_____________________________

 

Chapter 4 - RECOURSE______________________________________________________

§ 6406. Abatements____________________________________________________

§ 7214. Offenses by Officers_____________________________________________

28 USC § 1361. Action to Compel... Duty__________________________________

Title 18 - Criminal Statutes______________________________________________

18 USC § 241. Conspiracy Against Rights__________________________________

18 USC § 242 Deprivation of Rights______________________________________

18 USC § 912 False Personation of U.S. Officer or Employee__________________

18 USC § 913 Impersonator Making Arrest or Search________________________

18 USC § 1001 Statements (Fraud)_______________________________________

18 USC § 1018 Official Certificates_______________________________________

18 USC § 1030 Computer (Fraud)________________________________________

18 USC § 1513 Retaliating Against Witness________________________________

18 USC § 1581 Peonage________________________________________________

18 USC § 3045 Revenue Violations_______________________________________

Title 42- Civil Rights___________________________________________________

42 USC § 408 Penalties (SSN misuse)_____________________________________

42 USC § 1981 Equal Rights Under the Law_______________________________

42 USC § 1981a Damages for Intentional Discrimination_____________________

42 USC § 1982 Property Rights of Citizens_________________________________

42 USC § 1983 Civil Action for Deprivation of Rights________________________

42 USC § 1985 Conspiracy to interfere with Civil Rights______________________

42 USC § 1986 Action for Neglect to Prevent_______________________________

42 USC § 1988 Proceedings in Vindication of Civil Rights____________________

42 USC § 2000e-2 Unlawful Emplyment Practices___________________________

42 USC § 1994 Peonage Abolished________________________________________

 

Chapter 5 - SUPPORTING PIECES____________________________________________

The $10,000 Challenge_________________________________________________

The Best Kept Secret in America_________________________________________

EEOC v. Information Systems Consulting__________________________________

Social Security is Voluntary_____________________________________________

Welfare Enumeration & Surety Guarantees on National debt__________________

Conflict in the State and Federal courts___________________________________

Affidavit of Refusal Sample______________________________________________

Tax Protest Defined in Code_____________________________________________

The Save A Patriot Fellowship___________________________________________

IRS Insurance________________________________________________________

America is NOT a Democracy____________________________________________

The Communist Manifesto______________________________________________

National Press Release_________________________________________________

The Washington State Bar Association____________________________________

How It Happened To America, Chronology_________________________________

One Question For the Attorneys__________________________________________

SEND THESE FOIA LETTERS_________________________________________

Limits of IRS Authority_________________________________________________

FOIA REQUEST SAMPLE_____________________________________________

Documents to Ask For Under FOIA_______________________________________

 

Chapter 6 - PRODUCTS______________________________________________________

Employer’s Notification Package_________________________________________

IRS Humbug__________________________________________________________

Affidavits of Refusal Offered_____________________________________________

Lawsuits For Rights___________________________________________________

Fellowship Seminar Video Tapes_________________________________________

 

Chapter 7 - IN THE COURTS_________________________________________________

Jury Nullification_____________________________________________________

False Information & Arguments__________________________________________

Compulsory Production of Documents_____________________________________

Supreme Court Decisions_______________________________________________

The Political Difference________________________________________________



Introduction

 

            So, you want to know the truth about America’s tax laws and income tax system.  This book contains the absolute truth about the tax system.  A truth that our government prays you will never learn, or even become aware of.  The truth is;   United States Citizens are not subject, under the letter of the law, to the payment of income taxes on domestic income, and are not required by law to file a Form 1040 for the purpose of reporting, or paying the income tax on, their own domestic income.   The truth is the IRS has been a fraudulent, illegal  operation for over 60 years. The truth is the IRS routinely violates the Law, the Regulations and the United States Constitution.  The IRS  is an operation that is more representative of the Nazi  Gestapo than the American Constitution, routinely trampling the rights of innocent Citizens.  The IRS is the most un-American agency in the country today and the sooner we are rid of this fraudulent lie the better off we will be as a nation.

 

            The truth is that America’s tax filing system is based on voluntary compliance and self assessment, and that’s right from the IRS itself, which we’ll see later.  But what does that actually mean, and why do they say that:  "Voluntary compliance and self assessment." ? 

Did you know, or did they tell you, that you "comply voluntarily", and self-assess ?

 

            You see in America, under the law, the Citizens are free, and FREE means not taxed.  If you don’t believe me, let's look and see what the tax laws actually say.  Before we begin, I would just like to point out that I am not trying to tell anyone what they personally should do in the future.  I’m simply going to show you what the law actually says about income taxes, how those laws are supposed to be applied, and then given what the law actually does say, what it is possible to legally do under those laws.

 

            The Constitution of the United States of America, the Supreme Law of the Land, establishes a limited federal government in America, representative of  WE THE PEOPLE.  Wherein, the Federal government is forever bound as the SERVANT of the PEOPLE, never to become their master.   In this context, "Limited" means "bound by law" !   The IRS has turned this relationship upside down, effectively enslaving the People to the existing political system and parties, denying the People their FREE CHOICE ,and effectively creating a political system where it is virtually impossible to object to the activities of our supposedly representative government

 

            In the early centuries A.D.  men feared the Fire Breathing Dragon, a great mythical creature of indeterminable and undefeatable power which burned individual men to ashes with a single breath.  Today, believe it or not, we live with the same MYTH, about a "creature" of great and undefeatable power.   Our DRAGON,  our national curse and disgrace, our BEAST, is, of course, the IRS.

 

            Most Americans fear the IRS out of ignorance of the law.  Knowledge dispels hysterical fears of the unknown and makes possible the vanquishing of our foes.  This  information has been assembled in an effort to help all American Citizens overcome their own unfounded, hysterical fears of the IRS by making them knowledgeable about the law imposing income taxes, and how those laws affect you, the American Citizen.   Once you know the TRUTH about the tax laws; the unconstitutional and  illegal reign of terror orchestrated by the IRS in America for over 50 years will finally be over.


 

THE  CODE  HAS  BEEN  BROKEN !

 

            The Paperwork Reduction Act Notice of 1980 is the key to exposing and understanding the truth about America's tax laws.  The truth has been in print (the code) since 1916, and reaffirmed in print again recently.  In 1985, when the IRS complied with the mandates of the Paperwork Reduction Act by providing to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) the Table shown in  26 CFR 602.101, the stage was set to effect the end of the IRS in America.   The IRS cannot ask you for more information, under any given code section, than this Table shows is required by that code section.  This Table is from Title 26 (the Internal Revenue Code), Code of Federal Regulations (CFR), which implement the United States Code (USC) sections providing for the legal reduction of paperwork, and the administrative costs associated with its maintenance.

 

            The following, showing the actual legal code sections that the IRS itself cites and invokes, should serve as proof beyond any reasonable doubt what-so-ever that the income tax laws are being intentionally misapplied to all American Citizens in America, in order to fund an unspoken, and un-American political agenda of socialist global control.  To understand just how important the Paperwork Reduction Act is to the tax laws, keep in mind that since 1980 the IRS has been required by law to provide a notice of it (Notice 609) with every single piece of correspondence they issue to individuals.  You can find a complete copy of this notice on Page 1 of any Form 1040 Tax Instruction Booklet.  But, the IRS won’t tell you about the Code of Federal Regulations where you can lookup the information collection (form)  requirements of any given code section.  They just tell you that you’re supposed to know the law.  Well, after reading this book, YOU WILL !

 

CHAPTER 1

 

IMPLEMENTATION

United States Code Annotated - General Index

 

            Where does one begin an examination of the United States tax laws.   The United States Code is voluminous and very complex.   So, let us start at the beginning.   Here, in the General Index  for the  United States Code Annotated from 1994, under the major heading Citizenship, we try to find an entry for Income Tax.   But we only find:

 

CITIZENSHIP, cont'd.

   ........

   Illegitimate Children 8 § 1409

   Immigration, this index

   Imprisonment,

            Citizens by foreign governments 22 § 1732

            Detention of Citizens prohibited except by

                        Act of Congress 18 § 4001

   Indians,

            Generally 8 § 1401

   ........

 

Where is income tax?  There is nothing listed or shown for Income Tax in the General Index under 'Citizenship'.  It would be there between 'Imprisonment' and 'Indians' if it existed.  It’s not listed.  There are no income tax code statutes shown here in the General Index as being applicable under 'Citizenship' because, as you will see, the income tax does not apply to a Citizen's domestic earnings and income earned by RIGHT, and the law accurately records that legal fact.

 

Here, in the General Index again, we see the entries for Citizens under the major heading Income Tax.

 

INCOME TAX, Cont'd.

.......

Citizens,

       About to depart from U.S.,  waiver of requirements

              as to termination of taxable year 26 § 6851

       Living abroad,  exclusion of earned income and

              foreign housing costs from gross income 26 § 911

Civic Leagues,

....

 

How many code sections are shown here, in the General Index, as being applicable to Citizens under income tax?  There are two sections, and they both have to do with what?   They both have to do with foreign countries.  So, here in the General Index  for the Annotated Code, we immediately get our first indication that the income tax laws may be substantially different than what we have been led to believe is true by our government.   Furthermore, if one looks up "Income Tax" under the major heading of "Aliens" in this General Index, one will find nine pages of code sections listed as being applicable, eight of those pages relate to income tax sections relevant to nonresident aliens.

 

Income Duty of 1861

 

            Most people in America believe that income tax first started in America between 1913 and 1916.  That is not correct.  Income tax first appeared in the law at the beginning of the Civil War, in 1861.  The text of the law read:

INCOME DUTY

 

§ SEC. 89.  And be it further enacted, That for the purpose of modifying and reenacting, as hereinafter provided, so much of an act, entitled "An act to provide increased revenue from imports to pay interest on the public debt, and for other purposes," approved fifth of August, eighteen hundred and sixty-one, as relates to income tax;...

 

The first income tax was an income DUTY, imposed as a duty on revenue derived from foreign IMPORTS;  imposed as a FOREIGN TAX DUTY.  Duties are collected at the Ports of Entry to a nation,  THEY ARE NOT IMPOSED ON DOMESTIC ACTIVITIES.

 

            Also in the 1860s, in 1862, along with the Income Duty of 1861, Congress passed an Act  into law that can only, and most accurately, be described as a Federal employment "Kickback" agreement.  The text of the Act read:

 

 

 

The Federal Employee Kickback

 

Section 86. Salaries and Pay of Officers and Persons in the Service of the United States, and Passports.

 

§ SEC. 86.  And be it further enacted, that on and after the first day of August, eighteen hundred and sixty-two, there shall be levied, collected, and paid on all salaries of officers, or payments to persons in the civil, military, naval, or other employment or Service of the United States, including senators and representatives and delegates in Congress, when exceeding the rate of six hundred dollars per annum, a duty of three per centum on the excess above the said six hundred dollars; and it shall be the duty of all paymasters, and all disbursing officers, under the government of the United States or in the employ thereof, when making any payments to officers and persons as aforesaid, or upon settling or adjusting the accounts of such officers and persons, to deduct and withhold the aforesaid duty of three per centum, and shall, at the same time, make a certificate stating the name of the officer or person from whom such deduction was made, and the amount thereof, which shall be transmitted to the office of the Commissioner of Internal Revenue, and entered as part of the internal duties; and the payroll, receipts, or account of officers or persons paying such duty, as aforesaid, shall be made to exhibit the fact of such payment.

...[balance of section 86 applied to passports] (emphasis added)

 

            Please note that the ONLY people who are subject to this duty, by clear statutory language, ARE FEDERAL EMPLOYEES.  The EFFECT of Section 86 identifies what it really is - a KICKBACK of part of the property agreed, under employment contract, to be paid for the labor of a Federal government employee.  By this Act the amount of compensation contractually agreed to was diminished by one party to the agreement (Congress), without the consent of the other party (the federal employee).  A unilateral change in the employment contract of all persons already in the employ of the Federal government was, and is, not legal, and the conduct of the United States judges for the next 70 years proves it, as they REFUSED to pay this "duty" until after 1932.   Thus becoming, according to the IRS, the first "tax protesters" in American history.    The Judges understood thaat the result of arranging for the withholding of three percent of the compensation due to Federal government employees under existing contracts was a deprivation of property and liberty without due process of law, which is violative of the Fifth Amendment to the Constitution.

 

The Judges Refuse

 

            In 1863 Supreme Court Chief Justice Taney sent a letter to the Secretary of the Treasury attacking implementation of Section 86 on the compensation of Federal judges as being unconstitutional.  This letter was also published as a Supreme Court decision (157 U.S. 701).  In it, Justice Taney states:

 

"The Act in question, as you interpret it, diminishes the compensation of every judge three percent, and if it can be diminished to that extent by the name of a tax, it may in the same way be reduced from time to time at the pleasure of the legislature." (emphasis added)

 

Here you can see that the judges understood the effect of this law was a diminishment "by the name of a tax".  They knew it was not an actual tax, BUT A FORCED DEBT OBLIGATION.  In this country there exists no circumstance under which a person lawfully can be forced to accept a debt against  their will.  The judges chose to exercise their RIGHT to REFUSE TO ACCEPT THIS DEBT.

 

The facts presented above were expressed by the Supreme Court in Pollock v Farmer's Loan & Trust Co. in 1895 where they said:

 

"Subsequently, in 1869, .... The question arose whether the law which imposes such a tax upon them was constitutional.  The opinion of the Attorney General thereon was requested by the Secretary of the Treasury.  The Attorney General, in reply, gave an elaborate opinion advising the Secretary of the Treasury that no income tax could be lawfully assessed and collected upon the salaries of those officers who were in office at the time the statute imposing the tax was passed, holding on this subject the views expressed by Chief Justice Taney.  His opinion is published in Volume XIII of the Opinion of the Attorney General, at page 161.  I am informed that it has been followed ever since without question by the department supervising or directing the collection of the public revenue." (emphasis added)

 

The "kickback" program illegally forced a three percent debt obligation upon Federal government employees working under an existing employment agreement in 1862.  However the "kickback" program established by Section 86 was legal when applied to the salary of persons who took employment with the Federal government after the Act was passed because they were on notice that a three percent kickback was part of their employment agreement.

 

            This “tax” (notice that it is not even called a tax in the Act, but a “Duty”), ONLY APPLIES TO FEDERAL EMPLOYEES.    It is these two acts from the 1860's, the Foreign Income Duty and the Federal employment agreement "kickback", blurred under the 16th Amendment distractions, whose provisions have been intentionally mingled with the Social Security provisions of the 1930’s, that have become today's so-called income tax,  NOT BY PROPER CHANGES IN THE LAW, but by improper enforcement procedure by a renegade IRS, brutally and illegally intimidating, coercing and persecuting good American Citizens by threat, in order to force them to pay a so called "income tax" that they LEGALLY NEVER OWED in the first place, because they were never subject to it under the law because they never worked for the Federal government or earned foreign income under treaty !!!

 

A  Note From the Commissioner

 

            If we look at what the IRS tells us today about income taxes on the first page of the Form 1040 Tax Instruction Booklet from 1994,  we find a "Note From the Commissioner", which is usually one of the first things in the booklet.  This one is from Margaret Richardson, the current Commissioner of the IRS.  It states in part:

 

Dear Taxpayer,

 

    Thank you for making this nation's tax system the most effective system of voluntary compliance in the world.  The key to maintaining that system is ensuring that you are treated fairly and equitably, that your privacy is protected, and that our tax system is as simple and understandable as possible....

 

Margaret Milner Richardson

 

The first sentence here is:

 

“Thank you for making this nation’s tax system the most effective system of voluntary compliance in the world.”  

 

There it is!  Voluntary Compliance.  Why does she say that ?  What does that mean ?   Does that seem strange to you, given their known position in court ?   And how does it effect you, a sovereign American Citizen, if compliance really is voluntary ?    We will come back to those questions in a bit, but I would point out here that this opening statement is not unusual.  Nearly every instruction booklet from past years has opened with some variation of this statement from the Commissioner.

 

            The next thing we’re going to take a look at is the Privacy Act & Paperwork Reduction Act, Notice 609which is required by law to be supplied to you by the IRS with any correspondence you receive from the IRS.  It states in pertinent part:

 

Privacy Act and Paperwork Reduction Act

 

Notice 609

 

The Privacy Act of 1974 and Paperwork Reduction Act of 1980 say that when we ask you for information, we must first tell you our legal right to ask for the information, why we are asking for it, and how it will be used.  We must also tell you what could happen if we do not receive it and whether your response is voluntary, required to obtain a benefit, or mandatory under the law.

 

This notice applies to all papers you file with us, including this tax return.  It also applies to any questions we need to ask you so we can complete, correct, or process your return; figure your tax; and collect tax, interest, or penalties.

 

Our legal right to ask for information is Internal Revenue Code sections 6001, 6011, and 6012(a) and their regulations.  They say that you must file a return or statement with us for any tax you are liable for.  Your response is mandatory under these sections.........

 

We ask for tax return information to carry out the tax laws of the United States.  We need it to figure and collect the right amount of tax............

 

If you do not file a return , do not provide the information we ask for, or provide fraudulent information, the law says that you may be charged penalties and, in certain cases, you may be subject to criminal prosecution..........

 

Please keep this notice with your records.  It may help you if we ask for other information.  If you have questions about the rules for filing and giving information, please call or visit any Internal Revenue Service office.

 

In the third paragraph it states:

 

"Our legal right to ask for information is Internal Revenue Code Sections 6001, 6011 & 6012(a) and their regulations.  They say that you must file a return or statement with us for any tax you are liable for."

 

Now does that say you have to file a return for taxes that you are not liable for ?   No!   Does it state who is liable ?   No!  Does it even state what liability is ?   No !   And that raises the legal questions, what is liability, and who is liable? 

 

            Now keep in mind that this does not actually say that this is their right to ask you (the Citizen) for information.  It doesn't actually specifically say from whom information may be requested, it just establishes that a legal right to request information does exist.  But from whom may information actually be requested under these laws ?   Well, they cite three code sections in this notice, what do they say ?  

 

§ 6001. Notice or regulations requiring records, statements, and special returns.

 

Every person liable for any tax imposed by this title or for the collection thereof, shall keep such records, render such statements, make such returns, and comply with such rules and regulations as the Secretary may from time to time prescribe.  Whenever in the judgment of the Secretary it is necessary, he may require any person, by notice served upon such person or by regulations, to make such returns, render such statements or keep such records as the Secretary deems sufficient to show whether or not such person is liable for tax.   The only records which an employer shall be required to keep under this section in connection with charged tips shall be charge receipts, records necessary to comply with section  6053(c), and copies of statements furnished by employees under section 6053(a).

(emphasis added)

 

Notice that the first three words in this code section are: “Every person liable.  Does this code section actually establish liability ?   Or, does it simply list the consequences of being liable, leaving the reader to assume that he or she is in fact made liable elsewhere in the Code.   Indeed it does not establish liability, it merely lists the consequences of being liable.  It is interesting to note, that the second sentence here says:

 

"Whenever in the judgment of the Secretary it is necessary, he may require any person, by notice served upon such person or by regulations, to make such returns, render such statements or keep such records as the Secretary deems sufficient to show whether or not such person is liable for tax."

 

Have you ever received notice from the Commissioner ?  Are you sure that you’re required to make such returns, render such statements or keep such records ?   Which records, which statements,  and which returns are required ?  

 

             Do you see in the third sentence where it refers to "employers".   Does this code section apply to employers ?  Are employers liable for tax ? (see Section 3403 - Liability for Tax)

 

Section 6011 was the next section cited in Notice 609 by the IRS as their right to request information, and it says:

 

§ 6011. General requirement of return, statement, or list.

 

(a) General rule. 

When required by regulations prescribed by the Secretary any person made liable for any tax imposed by this title, or with respect to the collection thereof, shall make a return or statement according to the forms and regulations prescribed by the Secretary.  Every person required to make a return or statement shall include therein the information required by such forms or regulations...........

(emphasis added)

 

 The first sentence states in pertinent part:

 

"... any person made liable...” 

 

Does this code section actually make anyone liable, or again, does it just list the consequences of being made liable, leaving the reader to assume or presume, again, that liability exists, or is actually established elsewhere in the code ?    Neither of these code sections, 6001 nor 6011, actually establish liability.  They simply establish the consequences of being liable, or being made liable.  So, we’re going to look for Code sections that do state some person is liable, or is made liable for the payment of "income" tax, that would trigger the filing requirements established by these sections.

 

            The last section referenced by the IRS in Notice 609, as their right to ask for information, Section 6012, states in pertinent part:

 

§ 6012.  Persons required to make returns of income.

 

(a) General rule. Returns with respect to income taxes under subtitle A shall be made by the following:

  (1)(A) Every individual having for the taxable year gross income which equals or exceeds the exemption amount, except that a return shall not be required of an individual -

    (i) who is not married, is not a surviving spouse, is not a head of a household and for the taxable year has gross income of less than the sum of the exemption amount plus the basic standard deduction applicable to such an individual.

    (ii) who is a household and for the taxable year has gross income of less than the sum of the exemption amount plus the basic standard deduction applicable to such an individual.

    (iii) who is a surviving spouse and for the taxable year has gross income of less than the sum of  the exemption amount plus the basic standard deduction applicable to such an individual.

    (iv) who is entitled to make a joint return and whose gross income, when combined with the gross income of his spouse, is, for the taxable year,  less than the sum of twice the exemption amount plus the basic standard deduction applicable to such a joint return, but only if such individual and his spouse, at the close of the taxable year, had the same household as their home.

 

This  section states

 

“Returns with respect to income taxes under Subtitle A ...”  

 

and Subsection (1)(A) says,   “every individual having for the taxable year...”

 

             So, the requirement identified here is being established for individuals under Subtitle A.  Where is the tax imposed on individuals that would correspond to this filing requirement, and what is the exact legal nature of the specific requirement that is established by this section (6012), under the imposing statute?   This Code section (6012) may appear to be related to individuals and their corresponding filing requirement (for Returns), but what are its legal limitations, as recorded in the law, and who are the individuals subject under subtitle A ?

 

Structural Organization of Title

 

            First, a short explanation regarding the organization of the Tax laws in the United States Code.  The tax law of the United States of America is in Title 26 of the United States Code (Internal Revenue Code).  Title 26 is broken into a number of Subtitles, each Subtitle being a distinct and separate section of the law as the table below shows:

 

Tax or Topic                 Subtitle             Chapters           Sections

---------------------          -------               ---------             ----------

Income Taxes                A                     1 to 6                             1

Estate & Gift Taxes         B                   11 to 13             2001

Employment Taxes        C                  21 to 25            3101

Miscellaneous Excises      D                  31 to 47             4041

Alcohol, Tobacco and

  Certain Other Excises    E                   51 to 54             5001

Procedure and

  Administration             F                   61 to 80             6001

Joint Committee on

   Taxation                       G                     91 to 92             8001

Financing Presidential

   Election Campaigns       H                    95 to 96             9001

Trust Fund Code               I                     98                      9500

 

            This book examines the laws under Subtitle A - Income taxes, Subtitle C - Employment taxes, and Subtitle F - Procedure and Administration, which applies and implements the other Subtitles under the law.  The code sections we just looked at 6001, 6011 and 6012 are all from Subtitle F.   Income taxes are in Subtitle A, consisting of chapters 1 - 6 of  Title 26,  Employment taxes are in Subtitle C, consisting of chapters 21 - 25.  

 

            It is important to understand that each Subtitle establishes a distinct and separate program, or "tax", with its own individual authority to administer within that Subtitle, over its code sections.  These authorities do not automatically cross over into the other Subtitles and cannot be invoked as an authority in the other Subtitles unless it is shown as applicable within the law and its provisions (regulations).

 

            Each Subtitle imposes its own tax, and establishes the groups of persons subject to that tax, within that specific subtitle.  Just because one group of people is subject to one tax under one subtitle, does not necessarily imply that group is automatically also subject to the taxes imposed by other subtitles.  To demonstrate this point one could ask "Do you pay Subtitle E taxes ?".  For most people, the answer is a resounding "NO".   Why not, you may ask, isn't everyone subject to the law?   The answer, of course, is that the group of persons subject to Subtitle E taxes are ONLY  those people who engage in the manufacture and sale of alcohol and tobacco products, as proscribed in Subtitle E. 

 

            As you will see, the group of people who are subject to the Subtitle C Employment Tax laws are those people who have voluntarily chosen to participate in the Social Security program and supply a Social Security number.  Who then, is the subject of the Subtitle A - Income Tax laws, and what exactly is the true nature of this tax and its associated filing requirements ?  Well, Section 6012 said: “... with respect to income taxes  under Subtitle A ...", and we are looking for the Code section where the income tax is imposed on individuals, so, we go to Title 26, Subtitle A, Chapter 1, Section 1, which states:

 

      SUBTITLE  A  - INCOME TAXES

         Chapter 1. - NORMAL TAXES AND SURTAXES

              Subchapter A. - Determination of Tax Liability

                  PART  1. - Tax On Individuals

 

§ 1.  Tax Imposed.

 

(a) Married individuals filing joint returns and surviving spouses.  There is hereby imposed on the taxable income of -

 

(1) every married individual (as defined in Section 7703) who makes a single return jointly with his spouse under Section 6013, and

(2) every surviving spouse (as defined in Section 2(a)), a tax determined in accordance with the following table:

 

If taxable income is:            The tax is:

Not over 32,450               15% of taxable income

Over 32,450 but not

      over 78,400              4,867.50, plus 28% of

                                      the excess over 32,450

Over 78,400                 17,733.50, plus 31% of

                                      the excess over 78,400

 

(b) Heads of households.   There is hereby imposed on the taxable income of every head of a household (as defined in section 2(b)) a tax determined in accordance with the following table:

 

If taxable income is:            The tax is:

Not over 26,050               15% of taxable income

Over 26,050 but not

      over 67,200              3,907.50, plus 28% of

                                      the excess over 26,500

Over 67,200                  15,429.50, plus 31% of

                                      the excess over 67,200

 

(c) Unmarried individuals (other than surviving spouses and heads of households).   There is hereby imposed on the taxable income of every individual ( other than a surviving spouse as defined in section 2(a) of the head of a household as defined in section 2(b)) who is not a married individual (as defined in section 7703) a tax determined in accordance with the following table:

 

If taxable income is:          The tax is:

Not over 19,450               15% of taxable income

Over 19,450 but not

      over 47,050              2,917.50, plus 28% of

                                      the excess over 19,450

Over 47,050                  10,645.50, plus 31% of

                                      the excess over 47,050

 

(d) Married individuals filing separate returns  There is hereby imposed on the taxable income of every married individual (as defined in section 7703) who does not make a single return jointly with his spouse under section 6013, tax determined in accordance with the following table:

 

If taxable income is:                  The tax is:

Not over 16,225                    15% of taxable income

Over 16,225 but not

      over 39,200                 2,433.75, plus 28% of

                                         the excess over 16,225

Over 39,200                      8,866.75, plus 31% of

                                         the excess over 39,200

 

(e) Estates and trusts.  There is hereby imposed on the taxable income of -

 (1) every estate, and

 (2) every trust,

taxable under this subsection a tax determined in accordance with the following table:

 

If taxable income is:               The tax is:

Not over 3,300                      15% of taxable income

Over 3,300 but not

         over 9,900                   495 , plus 28% of

                                           the excess over 3,300

Over 9,900                           2,343 plus 31% of

                                          the excess over 9,900

(f) Adjustments ...........

 

Does all of this look familiar ?   It should, this is the Income Tax you probably pay every April 15th of every year, and it sure looks like everyone has to pay, doesn't it ?

 

But wait, notice that the language in each of the paragraphs of this section reads in the form:

 

            “...there is hereby imposed on the taxable income ... a tax ...”.   

 

Notice that in all of these paragraphs the tax is not actually imposed on the individual him or herself, it is imposed on the taxable income of the individual.  So, that leads to the question, what is taxable income, and what makes income taxable, as opposed to non-taxable  ?   What everybody in America apparently does: is assume that they have taxable income, and then assume that they have liability for tax, and then they assume that Form 1040 is the correct form to file to satisfy that liability for tax on taxable income that they have as individuals,  So they fill out Form 1040 and send it in to the IRS to pay the tax.  But, is that the correct and proper legal procedure to follow under the law ?   Certainly that is what the IRS tells us to do, but what does the law actually say.   What information is legally required from U.S. Citizens to satisfy the statutory liability for tax on taxable income established in Chapter 1, Section 1, by the (income) tax imposed ?

 

            For the answer to that question we must go back to the Paperwork Reduction Act, but first, a small note (code section). 

 

            Most people believe that Section 1 is all there is in the law regarding the imposition  of the income tax.   But what about this next section from Title 4 - Rules For Federal Employees.

 

4, U.S.C. § 111.  State, and so forth, taxation affecting Federal areas; taxation affecting Federal employees; income tax.

 

The United States consents to the taxation of pay or compensation for personal service as an officer  or employee of the United States, a territory or possession or political subdivision thereof, the government of the District of Columbia, or an agency or instrumentality of one or more of the foregoing, by a duly constituted taxing authority having jurisdiction, if the taxation does not discriminate against the officer or employee because of the source of the pay or compensation.

 

      Here Congress is consenting to the taxation (kickback return) of the pay of Federal officers and employees in the name of income tax.  There is no such corresponding statute anywhere in the code for anyone who DOES NOT WORK FOR THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT.  In this law, the U.S. government is providing notice that ONLY the employees of the U.S. government (United States), who are receiving the U.S. government's property (in the form of wage payments to those employees), which is subject to being returned (kick-backed) to the government, are responsible for those returns of income (referenced in 6012), to the government as part of their employment agreement. This section is in Title 4 BECAUSE IT ONLY APPLIES TO GOVERNMENT EMPLOYEES and cannot apply to anyone else.   Congress cannot enact law for any other taxing authority (like a State), or in any area where it does not have jurisdiction to tax.   Only government employees are responsible for returning a portion of their income to the Federal government (IRS), NOT Citizens in the fifty States WHO DO NOT WORK FOR THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT.   DO YOU WORK FOR THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT ?  Are you still sure that you are required to "make a return of income" to the Treasury ?

 

 

THE PAPERWORK REDUCTION ACT

 

            Now, the Paperwork Reduction Act  effectively says that the United States government cannot require, or collect, more information from Citizens than is absolutely necessary to satisfy the requirements of the law.   And under this Act, which was passed in 1980, the IRS was required to file with OMB, the Office of Management and Budget, a list of all the code sections that required information to be collected from individuals, together with the cross-referenced list of forms to be used to satisfy those legal information collection requirements for any given code section. 

 

            This table is incorporated into the law in the Code of  Federal Regulations in 26 C.F.R. 602.101, whose introduction states that the purpose of this regulatory section is to comply with the legal requirements imposed on the government by the Paperwork Reduction Act.    The IRS itself prepared and supplied this Table to OMB.  It took the IRS five years to comply with the mandate of this Act to document the specific filing requirements associated with any given section, and after you see the table you will understand why the IRS did not want to release this information for over five years.

 

It states in pertinent parts:

 

PART 602 - OMB CONTROL NUMBERS UNDER THE PAPERWORK REDUCTION ACT

 

Section 602.101. OMB Control numbers.

(a) Purpose.. This part collects and displays the control numbers assigned to collections of information in Internal Revenue Service regulations by the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) under the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1980.  The Internal Revenue Service intends that this part comply with the requirements of .... (OMB regulations implementing the Paperwork Reduction Act), for the display of control numbers assigned by OMB to collections of information in Internal Revenue Service regulations....

 

_________________________________________________

                  26 CFR (4-1-94 Edition)

CFR part or section where                  Current

    identified and described             OMB Control No.

1.1-1 ...........................................  1545-0067

1.23-5 ...........................................1545-0074

1.25-1T.........................................1545-0922

                                                       1545-0930

1.25-2T..........................................1545-0922

.....

1.60120.......................................  1545-0067

1.6012-1......................................  1545-0074

             ........

 

In the portion of the table reproduced above, the left hand column shows the code section (where the income tax is imposed; in PART 1, Section 1, designated here in the table as  1.1-1), and the right hand column shows the OMB Document Control Number (DCN) assigned to the information collection request (the form),  that is required by the code section to satisfy its legal requirements.  Note that there is only one form shown here as being required by the law that imposes the income tax, and note that the form that is to be used to satisfy the requirements of this code section, where the income tax is imposed, carries OMB DCN 1545-0067.  Also note that the same form is required by Regulation 1.6012-0, which corresponds to the individual's filing requirement established in Section 6012, which has already been reviewed.

 

It should be noted that 6012 (from Subtitle F - Procedure and Administration) is used to enforce all of the individual filing requirements established and imposed in the other Subtitles, but it does not expand or establish any new or additional requirements in association with any given section.  So, while 1.6012-1 can be used to enforce (and require) the use of Form 1040 in association with those sections that actually do require it (1.23-5 for example), IT DOES NOT AND CANNOT EXPAND THE REQUIREMENT OF SECTION 1,  as shown in the above CFR table.  It can properly be used to enforce the requirement(s) shown, but it cannot expand them.

 

            So, if  Form 1040 is the proper form for United States Citizens to file to satisfy their liability on taxable income, under the law, as listed by the IRS;  that OMB Document Control Number, 1545-0067, will show up on the top of a Form 1040.

 

                      Department of the Treasury - Internal Revenue Service 

Form 1040   U.S. Individual Income Tax Return  1993      | Reserved for IRS Use Only.

     For the year Jan 1-Dec 31, 1993, or other tax year beginning            , 1993 ending         ,19   | OMB No. 1545-0074

                ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

            Here is the reproduced top portion of a Form 1040 from 1993, and there in the upper right hand corner, it says OMB No. 1545-0074.   Does that number match the number shown in the table as being required by  Section 1 that imposes the tax ?   No !  It’s the wrong number!   The Table in the Code of Federal Regulations shows that the law requires the form with OMB Document Control Number 1545-0067, not 1545-0074.  

 

            It’s probably worth saying that 1545 is the prefix assigned by OMB to all IRS documents.  But OMB Document Control Number 1545-0074 is assigned to Form 1040, and the form required by the law carries DCN 1545-0067.   So what form does carry the OMB Document Control Number 1545-0067 ? 

 

 

Form   2555                       Foreign Earned Income                     |OMB No. 1545-0067

__________________________________________________________________________________

                             For Use by U.S. Citizens and Resident Aliens Only           1993   

                ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

            Here, you see at the top of the form, in the upper right hand corner it says: OMB No. 1545-0067.  Now that matches the entry in the CFR Table!   And what is the title of this form ?  Form 2555 Foreign Earned Income !   And what does it say underneath the title ?

 

            "For Use by U.S. Citizens and Resident Aliens Only".

 

Now does Form 1040, say anything about who is supposed to use it ?   No, it doesn’t!  But Form 2555 - Foreign Earned Income states who is supposed to use it, U.S. Citizens and Resident Aliens Only”.   This is the form that’s listed in the law as being required to satisfy the information reporting requirements associated with the individual's statutory liability for income tax on "taxable income", imposed by Section 1 in Chapter 1,  the income tax;  and, it is the same form shown as being required under Section 6012, which was cited by the IRS itself in Notice 609.

 

            I’ll mention that here again, under the law, we find that the income tax, for Citizens, other than the Federal “source” kickback”, appears to be related only to foreign income.  Remember we started with the General Index for the United States Code Annotated and found that under Income Tax, under Citizens, it only referenced foreign countries, and here again, we find that the only form actually required under the law, reports only foreign income.   The law is consistent so far, isn't it?  It doesn't agree with what we are told to believe by the IRS, but it agrees with itself, without contradiction, doesn't it ?    So what is the proper legal use of Form 1040 ?   The next document will help explain things. 

 

TREASURY DECISION 2313

Income Taxes

 

Treasury Department               

Office of Commissioner of Internal Revenue

Washington, D.C., March 21, 1916

 

To collectors of internal revenue:

 

     Under the decision of the Supreme Court of the United States in the case of Brushaber v. Union Pacific Railway Co., decided January 21, 1916, it is hereby held that income accruing to nonresident aliens in the form of interest from the bonds and dividends on the stock of domestic corporations is subject to the income tax imposed by the act of October 3, 1913.

 

     Nonresident aliens are not entitled to the specific exemption designated in paragraph C of the income-tax law, but are liable for the normal and additional tax upon the entire net income "from all property owned, and of every business, trade, or profession carried on in the United States," computed upon the basis prescribed in the law.

 

     The responsible heads, agents, or representatives of nonresident aliens, who are in charge of the property owned or business carried on within the United States, shall make a full and complete return of the income therefrom on Form 1040, revised, and shall pay any and all tax, normal and additional, assessed upon the income received by them in behalf of their nonresident alien principals.

 

     The person, firm, company, copartnership, corporation, joint-stock company, or association, and insurance company in the United States, Citizen or resident alien, in whatever capacity acting, having the control, receipt, disposal, or payment of fixed or determinable annual or periodic gains, profits, and income of whatever kind, to a nonresident alien, under any contract or otherwise, which payment shall represent income of a nonresident alien from the exercise of any trade or profession within the United States, shall deduct and withhold from such annual or periodic gains, profits, and income, regardless of amount, and pay to the office of the United States Government authorized to receive the same such sum as will be sufficient to pay the normal tax of 1 per cent imposed by law, and shall make an annual return on Form 1042. (emphasis added)

 

This is the only place that I have ever been able to find the proper explanation, actually, any explanation what-so-ever from the United States government, for the proper use of Form 1040.   Treasury Decision 2313, handed down in 1916, instructs the collectors of the Internal Revenue on how to implement the income tax laws as imposed under the 16th Amendment. This Treasury Decision is the result of a Supreme Court ruling, referenced in the first paragraph as  "Brushaber v. Union Pacific Railway Co.", which was decided January 21, 1916, and from which: 

 

"... it is hereby held that the income accruing to nonresident aliens in the form of interest from the bonds and dividends on the stock of domestic corporations is subject to the income tax imposed by the act of October 3, 1913.”  

 

The second paragraph states:

 

Nonresident aliens are not entitled to the specific exemption designated in paragraph C of the income-tax law, but are liable for the normal and additional tax upon the entire net income from all property owned, and of every business, trade, or profession carried on in the United States,” computed upon the basis prescribed in the law.”

 

Now,  the first paragraph says that nonresident aliens are subject to the tax.  The second paragraph says that nonresident aliens are liable for the tax and that they are not allowed to claim the exemption designated as paragraph C.  That implies that Citizens are allowed to claim the exemption in paragraph C, and that Citizens are not liable for the tax, because they are not subject to the tax, because it was not specified in paragraph one that Citizens are subject.  Now let’s read the third paragraph, and keep in mind that we are going to look for a Paragraph C in the United States Code that exempts Citizens from income tax.    The third paragraph states:

 

“The responsible heads, agents, or representatives of nonresident aliens, who are in charge of the  property owned or business carried on within the United States, shall make a full and complete return of the income therefrom on Form 1040, revised, and shall pay any and all tax, normal and additional, assessed upon the income received by them in behalf of their nonresident alien principals." 

 

Now there’s the proper legal use of Form 1040.  It is to be used by United States Citizens to report the income of his or her foreign principals.  It is not to be used to report the Citizen's own personal domestic income.  Again, this is the only place where I have ever seen a legal  explanation from the government for the proper legal use of Form 1040, and now I think you know why.   Form 1040 is to be used by withholding agents to report the income of foreign principals.  It is not to be used by U.S. Citizens to report their own income, and that’s why voluntary self assessment and voluntary compliance are so important to the IRS.  Because the current mythical system doesn’t work unless the Citizen voluntarily misapplies the law and uses the wrong form to mistakenly, voluntarily assess his own domestic income for a foreign income tax.  Form 1040 is also properly required to claim certain credits and deductions (discussed later), as well as for Federal employees to utilize in minimizing the “kickbackduty under 4 U.S.C. 111.

 

            This Treasury Decision, 2313,  references the Supreme Court  decision Brushaber v. Union Pacific Railroad Co., so it is time to step back, and get a little background information.

 

The Constitution

 

            The first thing we’re going to do is look at what the Constitution says about taxation.   The limitations in the Constitution restricting the direct taxation of individuals and their property are found in Article 1 in two different sections.  Both sections specifically restrict the Federal government as to how it may lay direct taxes on the CitizensArticle 1, Section 2, Clause 3 states:

 

"Representative and direct taxes shall be apportioned among the several states which may be included within this union, according to their respective numbers"

 

and Article 1, Section 9, Clause 4 states:

 

"No capitation or other direct tax shall be laid, unless in apportionment to the Census or enumeration herein before directed to be taken."

 

These basic sections of the Constitution have never been repealed or amended.  The Constitution still forbids the direct taxation of individuals, their property, and their rights, unless the tax is apportioned to the State governments for collection.   

 

And Article 1, Section 10, Clause 1 states:

 

“No State shall enter into any treaty, alliance, or confederation; grant letters of marquee and reprisal; coin money; emit bills of credit; make anything but gold and silver coin a tender in payment of debts; pass any bill of attainder, ex post facto law, or law impairing the obligation of contracts, or grant any title of nobility.” (emphasis added)

 

This Clause in the Constitution is why NEITHER the Federal, nor the State governments have any authority, either OVER, or TO UNILATERALLY ALTER, PRIVATE EMPLOYMENT CONTRACTS as stated in Justice Taney’s letter (recorded as a Court Decision).

 

            In 1895, Congress tried to pass an Act that imposed income taxes on the interest and dividends of U.S. Citizens on deposit in U.S. banks.  This Act was immediately struck down in Pollock vs. Farmer’s Loan and Trust Co. (157 US 429), wherein the Supreme Court ruled that it is unconstitutional to impose an income tax on the interest and dividends of United States Citizens on deposits in U.S. banks.  The court ruled that the tax was unconstitutional because it was a direct tax that was not apportioned as required by the Constitution.  This decision has never been reversed or overturned.

 

Excerpts from the Pollock decision include:

 

"...Ordinarily, all taxes paid primarily by persons who can shift the burden upon someone else, or who are under no legal compulsion to pay them, are considered indirect taxes; but a tax upon property holders in respect of their estates, whether real or personal, or of the income yielded by such estates, and the payment of which cannot be avoided, are direct taxes..."

(emphasis added)

 

 

and,

"...Subsequently, in 1869, .... The question arose whether the law which imposes such a tax upon them was constitutional.  The opinion of the Attorney General thereon was requested by the Secretary of the Treasury.  The Attorney General, in reply, gave an elaborate opinion advising the Secretary of the Treasury that no income tax could be lawfully assessed and collected upon the salaries of those officers who were in office at the time the statute imposing the tax was passed, holding on this subject the views expressed by Chief Justice Taney.  His opinion is published in Volume XIII of the Opinion of the Attorney General, at page 161.  I am informed that it has been followed ever since without question by the department supervising or directing the collection of the public revenue..." (emphasis added)

 

and;

 

"...A tax upon one's whole income is a tax upon the annual receipts from his whole property, and as such falls within the same class as a tax upon that property, and is a direct tax, in the meaning of the Constitution..."

(emphasis added)

 

and,

 

"...We have unanimously held in this case that, so far as this law operates on the receipts from municipal bonds , it cannot be sustained, because it is a tax on the powers of the States, and on their instrumentalities to borrow money, and consequently repugnant to the Constitution. ..it follows that, if the revenue from municipal bonds cannot be taxed because the source cannot be, the same rule applies to revenue from any other source not subject to the tax; and the lack of power to levy any but an apportioned tax on real and personal property equally exists as to the revenue therefrom. (emphasis added)

 

            Admitting that this act taxes the income of property irrespective of its source, still we cannot doubt that such a tax is necessarily a direct tax in the meaning of the Constitution In England, we do not understand that an income tax has ever been regarded as other than a direct tax.  In Dowell's History of Taxation and Taxes in England, given, and an income tax is invariably classified as a direct tax.." (emphasis added)

 

and, even in dissent:

 

..that personal property, contracts, obligations, and the like, have never been regarded by Congress as proper subjects of direct tax.   The United States Constitution provides Congress the power to lay and collect taxes directly only as long as it is apportioned with regard to the census or enumeration."

(emphasis added)

 

 

 

 

 

Then, in 1913 Congress passed the 16th Amendment which says,

 

“Congress shall have power to lay and collect taxes on income, from whatever source derived, without apportionment among the several states, and without regard to any census or enumeration.”

 

So that changed everything, right?  Well, NO !   That is not what the Supreme Court ruled.  What the Supreme Court ruled, in Brushaber v. Union Pacific R.R. Co. and in Stanton v. Baltic Mining Co.,  is that since the provisions of Article I, requiring that direct taxes be apportioned, were not repealed, they are still in full force and effect.   And, that since the language of the 16th Amendment specifies that the income tax is to be a tax without apportionment, then it cannot be a direct tax, because otherwise the Constitution would inherently contradict itself, which cannot be allowed to happen.  Article I cannot prohibit direct taxation unless apportioned, while the 16th Amendment grants the power to lay direct taxes without apportionment, because then the Constitution would inherently contradict itself and could no longer serve as a valid foundation for our Law.   So, to specifically prevent the Constitution from contradicting itself, the Supreme Court ruled that since  the 16th Amendment provides for an income tax without apportionment, then the income tax cannot be a direct tax

 

            But, there are only two major classes of taxation authorized in the Constitution; direct taxes and indirect taxes.  So, if the income tax cannot be a direct tax,  then it must be an indirect tax.  Indirect taxes are classified into three minor categories in the Constitution: imposts, duties and excises, and are ONLY imposed on revenue taxable activities and/or events.   If you remember, the income tax started in 1861 as an income Duty, imposed only on foreign imports and Federal employees, which was contained and allowed within the Constitutional category of duties.  As a foreign duty it was only imposed on the flow of foreign goods into America, NOT DOMESTIC GOODS, NOR DOMESTIC INCOME except that earned by federal employees and officers (Civil War).

 

            Obviously today, the income tax is not currently being enforced as a duty, so the questions are: "Did the 16th Amendment create a new congressional power to tax directly ?", and;  "How did the 16th Amendment change the income tax ?".

 

The answer to the first question was supplied by the Supreme Court in Stanton v. Baltic Mining Co., 240 US 112 (1916), stating:

 

"...by the previous ruling, it was settled that the provisions of the 16th Amendment conferred no new power of taxation but simply prohibited the previous complete and plenary power of income taxation possessed by Congress from the beginning from being taken out of the category of  indirect taxation to which it inherently belonged.." (emphasis added)

 

The Supreme Court clearly states that the 16th Amendment DID NOT create a new power to tax the People in a direct fashion without apportionment, AS IS FRAUDULENTLY CLAIMED BY THE IRS.   So, if it is not a direct tax, then it is still an indirect tax, but, possibly, no longer a duty.  Then; "What kind of tax is the income tax now?" 

 

 

 

In the "previous ruling" referenced above, Brushaber v. Union Pacific R.R. Co . 240 US 1 (1916),  the court stated:

 

            "...taxation on income was in its nature an excise ...” ,and

            "...taxes on such income had been sustained as excises in the past...".

 

specifically,

 

"Moreover, in addition, the conclusion reached in  the Pollock case did not in any degree involve holding that income taxes generically and necessarily came within the class of direct taxes on property, but, on the contrary, recognized the fact that taxation on income was in its nature an excise entitled to be enforced as such unless and until it was concluded that to enforce it would amount to accomplishing the result which the requirement as to apportionment of direct taxation was adopted to prevent, in which case the duty would arise to disregard form and consider substance alone,..." (emphasis added)

 

The Court ruled that the 16th Amendment effectively transformed the income tax from an indirect duty to an indirect excise (imposed on revenue taxable ativities).  It is not a direct tax without apportionment.   And, if we examine the law closely,  that is exactly what we find; that the income tax is imposed and applied under the law, as an indirect excise, ONLY imposed on specific entities, privileged and Federal, and specific taxable activities and events that are identified in the law as “included types” or potential “sources” of “taxable income

 

            So, legally, exactly what is an excise tax ?  Fortunately, the Supreme Court used to know what it was doing, and both of these decisions, Brushaber and Stanton, refer you to another case handed down five years earlier, Flint v. Stone Tracy Co 220 U.S. 107 (1911) , in which the Supreme Court ruled that excise taxes are taxes: 

 

“laid on the manufacture, sale or consumption of commodities within the country,

 upon licenses to pursue certain occupations and

upon corporate privileges;

the requirement to pay such taxes involves the exercise of the privilege and if business is not done in the manner described no tax is payable...it is the privilege which is the subject of the tax and not the mere buying, selling or handling of goods.”   (emphasis added)

 

The Supreme Court effectively establishes with this ruling that excise taxes are manufacturing taxes, sales taxes, and taxes on privileges.  Privileges in the form of  either licenses to pursue certain occupations, corporate privileges, and any other privileges granted to the individual by the government as well.  One of these other privileges, is the privilege of being protected by the United States government in a foreign country under a tax treaty  The government normally would have no jurisdiction or ability to protect you or your business interests in a foreign country, but because of the existence of the tax treaty with that foreign government, your business is protected by the U.S. government outside their jurisdictional boundaries (the United States).  That protection, being afforded by the tax treaty, is construed to be a privilege granted to you by the government; and therefore, the income earned in that foreign country under the tax treaty, is privileged income and subject to the income tax. 

 

            And that is why the General Index shows that there are only two code sections that apply to Citizens, both having to do with foreign countries.  And that is why the form that is actually required by the law is Form 2555 - Foreign Earned Income.   Because that is the privileged income that you have as "taxable income", upon which you have liability to satisfy, resultant from engaging in a revenue taxable activity.  And that is the only filing requirement that you have as an individual American Citizen under the law.   If you have no foreign earned income under tax treaties and no foreign principals to whom money is paid,  then you don’t have to file anything under the letter of the law because other income, domestic income,  is earned by Right, not privilege.   It is a long and well established rule of law that the government cannot tax your Rights, nor may it tax the proceeds derived from the simple exercise of those Rights, and the law accurately reflects and captures that Constitutional truth.  It is the IRS that ignores the truth, ignores the law, ignores the implementing regulations and tramples your Citizen's Rights into the mud, because, as you will see, their actions are certainly not supported by the law, or even properly, legally authorized under it.

 

            There is no requirement to file a Form 1040 reporting your own domestic income because the form is only supposed to be used by non-resident aliens and those U.S. Citizens who serve as "withholding agents" to aliens and who have foreign principals to whom moneys are being paid, and Federal employees.   As the "agents" for those foreign principals they are required to deduct and withhold and pay the income tax, not on their own income, but on the income of the foreign principals, who do not possess the same rights as a Citizen.    As Federal employees they are “transferees” under the I.R. Code and subject to making a “return of income” to the U.S. Treasury.

 

            Now, the reason why these facts are so little known in America, and in the legal community itself, is that if you just look up the Brushaber v. Union Pacific R.R. Co. decision and read it quickly, it appears that the Supreme Court tells the U.S. Citizen (Brushaber) that the tax is constitutional and he has to pay it.   It reads as if  the Citizen is being told by the Court that he has to pay the income tax.  But, the fact of the matter is Frank Brushaber was the U.S. agent for a group of foreigners who had stock in the Union Pacific Railroad.  Under the 16th Amendment he (Brushaber) and the Union Pacific Railroad were both made withholding agents and were both ordered by the government to deduct, withhold and pay over the income tax to the government, on the foreigners' income from the stock.  

 

            Now, Frank Brushaber filed this suit on behalf of his foreign principals, who had no standing as foreigners in the U.S. courts to file themselves, and that is why Brushaber's name is on the decision.  The foreigners lost the suit.  The foreigners were essentially told by the courts that it was a privilege to be allowed to have access to the United States marketplace and earn income there.  That privilege is granted by the U.S. government, which is given, in the Constitution, full authority over foreigners in America and foreign affairs with other nations.   The Court determined that it is the U.S. government that allows foreigners the privilege of earning money in America,  therefore; any income that they earn under that extended privilege is taxable income, and the Citizen who acts as the foreigner's agent has to withhold and pay the income tax to the federal Government.  In this case the Citizen essentially got told by the court that you have to pay the tax because you’re the withholding agent for these foreigners upon whom the income tax is imposed.  The first sentence of the case “write-up” clearly states that the decision is about TARRIFF LAWS.

 

            But the decision simply isn’t written up so that it’s clear about the circumstances of the case.  You have to research it thoroughly.  If you just look it up, it looks like the U.S. Citizen, Frank Brushaber, gets told by the government, "the tax is Constitutional, and you have to pay it", and, over the passage of time, the IRS has found it very easy to deceive the American people as to the true nature of this Supreme Court decision because of the way this decision is written.   In fact, if you call the IRS and ask them why the income tax is Constitutional, they will answer that the Supreme Court ruled it was Constitutional in Brushaber v. Union Pacific Railroad CoBut they won't tell you that this was a case about tarriff laws and the taxation of foreigners, AND HAS ABSOLUTELY NOTHING TO DO WITH THE DIRECT TAXATION OF CITIZENS, as fraudulently claimed by the IRS for over 60 years.    So that everyone understands this, it should be said that Title 15 U.S.C. § 17, states:

 

§ 17 Anti-trust laws... ...

 

            The labor of a human being is not a commodity or article of commerce...

 

and therefore cannot be made subject to any indirect excise tax as though it were such. 

 

Finally, from the Congressional Research Service in 1979:

 

SOME CONSTITUTIONAL QUESTIONS

REGARDING THE FEDERAL INCOME TAX LAWS

By

Howard Zaritsky, Legislative Attorney

American Law Division

May 25, 1979

Report No. 79-131 A

 

... In Brushaber v. Union Pacific R.R. Co. (1916), the Supreme Court held that the income tax , including a tax on dealings in property, was an indirect tax, rather than a direct tax, and that:

"the command of the amendment that all income taxes shall not be subject to the rule of apportionment by a consideration of the source from which the taxed income may be derived forbids the application to such taxes of the rule applied in the Pollock case by which alone such taxes were removed from the great class of excises, duties, and imposts subject to the rule of uniformity and were placed under the other or direct class." 240 U.S. 1 18-19 (1916)

 

This same view was reiterated by the Court in Stanton v. Baltic Mining Co. (1916)  in which the court stated that the:

"Sixteenth Amendment conferred no new power of taxation but simply prohibited the previous complete and plenary power of income taxation possessed by Congress from the beginning from being taken out of the category of indirect taxation to which it inherently belonged." 240 U.S. 112 (1916)

 

Therefore, it is clear that the income tax is an "indirect" tax of the broad category of "Taxes, Duties, imposts and Excises," subject to the rule of uniformity, rather than the rule of apportionment......


CHAPTER 2

 

APPLICATION

 

Internal Revenue Definitions

 

Chapter 79, from Subtitle F - Procedure and Administration, contains many of the legal definitions for the terms used in Title 26.   Specifically Section 7701, which states.

 

§ 7701 Definitions.

 

(a).  When used in this Title, where not otherwise distinctly expressed or manifestly incompatible with the intent thereof--

(1).  Person - The term "person" shall be construed to mean and include an individual, a trust, estate, partnership, association, company or corporation.

...

(3) Corporation. The term “Corporation” includes associations; joint stock companies, and insurance companies.

 

(4) Domestic. The term “domestic” when applied to a corporation or partnership means created or organized in the United States or under the law of the United States or of any State.

 

(5) Foreign. The term “foreign” when applied to a corporation or partnership means a corporation or partnership which is not Domestic.

...

(9). United States.   The term ''United States'' when used in a geographical sense includes only the States and the District of Columbia.

 

(10) State.   The term ''State'' shall be construed to include the District of Columbia, where such construction is necessary to carry out provisions of this title. ...

(26). Trade or business. - The term "trade or business" includes the performance of the functions of a public office.

...

(30). United States person. - The term "United States person" means-

(A) a citizen or resident of the United States,

(B) a domestic partnership

(C) a domestic corporation, and

(D) any estate or trust  (other than a foreign estate or foreign trust , within the

       meaning of section 7701(a)(31)).

 

(31).  Foreign estate or trust. - The terms "foreign estate" and "foreign trust" mean an estate or trust, as the case may be, the income of which from sources without the United States which is not effectively connected with the conduct of a trade or business within the United States, is not includible in gross income under Subtitle A.

 

            First note that the word "person" is not restricted to meaning just people.  For purposes of the application of the tax laws, "person" means any entity subject to the tax laws.   Next, notice that the definition of Domestic (4)  references “any State”, and the definition of State (10) says that it includes (only) the District of Columbia. 

 

            Additionally, if one examines the statutory evolution of the definition of the word "State" in the I.R. Code, one finds in the 1939 I.R. Code (when Hawaii and Alaska were Territories) the following:

 

§ 3797 (a)(10). State.  The term "State shall be construed to include the Territories and the District of Columbia, where such construction is necessary to carry out the provisions of this title. (emphasis added)

 

             In the 1954 recodification of the I.R. Code (after Alaska became a State and Hawaii is still a territory), § 3797(a) was moved to § 7701(a), where we find:

 

§ 7701 (a)(10). State.  The term "State shall be construed to include the Territory of Hawaii and the District of Columbia, where such construction is necessary to carry out the provisions of this title.   (emphasis added)

 

            And finally, in 1959 (after Hawaii became a State), the definition in the Code for the word "State" was updated, and now we find:

 

§ 7701 (a)(10). State.  The term "State shall be construed to include the District of Columbia, where such construction is necessary to carry out the provisions of this title. (emphasis added)

 

Which is how the statute stands today.  Clearly the 50 States of the union are omitted.   Lest there be any question that Congress is capable of including the States in this sort of definition where it intends to, one should note carefully the statutory definition provided at 26 U.S.C. § 6103(b)(5) for "State", which does include the several (50) states.

 

§ 6103(b)

...

(5) State

 

      The term "State" means -

      (A) any of the 50 States, the District of Columbia, the Commonwealth of Puerto

            Rico, the Virgin Islands, the Canal Zone, Guam, American Samoa, and the

            Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands, and

      (B) ....

 

            This indicates that any entity in one of the fifty  States of the Union is outside (not covered by) the jurisdiction established by this Code for the purposes of applying and properly understanding the internal revenue laws.  Citizens are not under the direct jurisdiction of the U.S. government, but rather, are under the jurisdiction of the STATE government, NOT THE FEDERAL.   NOW THIS DOES NOT mean that you are a non-resident alien.  It just means that you are a Sovereign American Citizen WHO IS OUTSIDE AND ABOVE THE FEDERAL ABILITY (and territorial jurisdiction) TO DIRECTLY TAX, and therefore is not subject to the control, or rule, or taxation of the Federal government on your domestic activities engaged in by Right.

 

            We see this understanding confirmed in the Code of Federal Regulations at 26 CFR 1.911-2(h) where it states:

 

Reg. 1.911-2(h) Foreign country.  The term “foreign country” when used in a geographical sense includes any territory under the sovereignty of a government other than that of the United States” (emphasis added)

 

            That means every State in the nation could apparently be legally considered, by statutory definition,  as “FOREIGN” to (or outside of) the I.R. Code, because they have their own Sovereign governments.  When the American States united to form a central government they retained full sovereign governmental authority over their own territory and people.  Leaving the “United States” as the sovereign authority over ONLY those territories  NOT YET CONFIRMED AS STATES, or conceded by the States to the “United States” (D.C., enclaves, military bases, etc.).  The regulation above explains that each and every one of the fifty States could be deemed to be outside the power of the I.R. Code, because they are under their own sovereign governments.

 

            Because of these definitions, and others,  there seems to be a lot of confusion and conflicting works by authors making claims regarding these definitions and others specifically, "State" and "United States", AND "Citizen" and "nonresident alien".   Many books and articles in the Patriot community in America today claim that since the legal definition of  the term "United States" appears to NOT include the 50 States, because the term “State” does not actaully include the 50 states, then Citizens of the 50 States are technically not Citizens of the United States under the IR Code, and therefore are not subject to the income tax, because the tax is only imposed on a citizen of the United States (areas of Federal jurisdiction).   Thus a Citizen of a State is a non-resident alien for purposes of the tax code, and is not subject.  As already explained and shown in great detail, this argument appears to be flawed.  As we have alreaday seen, NON RESIDENT ALIENS ARE THE ACTUAL SUBJECT, AND ONLY SUBJECT, OF THE INCOME TAX !    If you declare yourself to be a nonresident alien, you are declaring yourself subject to the tax.   It will just be a matter of time before the IRS shows up at your door demanding that YOU, THE ALIEN (according to your own declaration), pay the tax.  This is a destroyed legal argument and cannot succeed in the courts.

 

            This confusion results from the fact that THERE ARE MULTIPLE DEFINITIONS for  these terms contained in the law.  However, each definition is specifically attached to, and relevant for,  ONLY certain code sections (generally one chapter, or one Code section) referenced in the definition itself.   This is the wrong argument to base your legal claims on if you are going to try and take on the IRS in court, IT IS NOT RECOGNIZED.   PLEASE DO NOT DEPEND ON THIS LEGAL ARGUMENT OR YOU WILL LOSE.

 

            I further would point out that Citizens CAN VOTE, and ALIENS CANNOT.  If you voted (or are registered (or eligible) to vote) THEN YOU ARE OBVIOUSLY A CITIZEN OF THE UNITED STATES, and cannot (and SHOULD not) claim that you are "alien" (resident or otherwise) to the government for the purpose of applying the tax laws (but not the voting laws ?)!

 

            If you want to know how to really beat the IRS, read this whole book and join the Disciples of Truth and the Save a Patriot Fellowship to stay informed, because citizenship is the very best tax umbrella possible - you are not subject, if you exercise your rights, and DON'T volunteer for silly programs.

 

            NOW, it is TRUE and CORRECT to understand that YOUR ESTATE can be considered exempt (not taxable), in that it is private property, beyond jurisdictional reach of the Federal government to tax directly (in the States) and NOT under their control or ownership.   BUT that DOES NOT make you a foreigner or an alien,  JUST A SOVEREIGN CITIZEN who owns property THAT, UNDER THE CONSTITUTION, CANNOT BE TAXED DIRECTLY .  (Can the Federal government impose taxes on the people of England  ? Of course NOT.   Why not ? -   THEY HAVE NO JURISDICTIONAL AUTHORITY OVER THAT PROPERTY !  RIGHT !   Well they have NO DIRECT authority or control OVER YOUR PROPERTY EITHER !  (get IRS HUMBUG - The BEST book on the Market ! for more understanding on this.) 

 

            Furthermore the Constitution FORBIDS the Federal government from interfering in PRIVATE CONTRACTS, LIKE YOUR EMPLOYMENT CONTRACT IN THE PRIVATE SECTOR.  Because the Constitution FORBIDS THIS, the United States government HAS NO UNILATERAL AUTHORITY OVER EITHER YOU, AS AN EMPLOYEE IN THE PRIVATE SECTOR, OR YOUR EMPLOYER, WITHOUT YOUR/THEIR VOLUNTARY COOPERATION AND PERMISSION.  As you will see, the law records these legal facts

 

             Those Citizens (of the 50 States) NOT working for the Federal government, technically, under the IR Code, have income which is part of their estate, NOT derived from the United States [government], NOT includible in gross income under subtitle A, wherever their income is “not effectively connected with the conduct of a trade or business (“the functions of a public office within the United States” - see § 7701(a)(26) ), per the definition given in § 7701(a)(31) .

            I know this sounds strange and is a little tricky, but re-read this, and think about it.  Are you FREE and REPRESENTED, or are you SUBJECT and RULED ?  YOU (the Citizens) ARE THE AUTHORITY AND THE TRUE SOVEREIGN in this nation.   Sovereigns DON’T PAY TAX, they IMPOSE it on THEIR SUBJECTS, and collect it from them

           

And what does the Supreme Court say about Federal jurisdiction in the Territories and 50 States ?

 

“The laws of Congress in respect to those matters {outside of Constitutionally delegated powers} do not extend into the territorial limits of the States, but have force only in the District of Columbia, and other places that are within the exclusive jurisdiction of the national government.” [Caha v. United States, 152 US 211]

 

“Constitutional restrictions and limitations were not applicable to the areas of land, enclaves, territories and possession over which Congress had exclusive legislative authority” [Downes v. Bidwell, 182 US 244]

 

“Special provision is made in the Constitution for the cession of jurisdiction from the States over places where the Federal government shall establish forts or other military works.  And it is in these places, or in territories of the United States, where it can exercise a general jurisdiction.” [New Orleans v. United States, 35 US (10 Pet.) 662 (1836)]

 

“It is well established principle of law that all federal legislation applies only within the territorial jurisdiction of the United States unless a contrary intent appears” [Foley Brothers, Inc. v. Filardo, 336 US 281 (1948)]

 

“Jurisdiction is essential to give validity to the determinations of administrative agencies and where jurisdictional requirements are not satisfied, the action of the agency is a nullity..” [City Street Improv Co. v. Pearson, 181 C 640, 185 P. (1962) O’Neil v. Dept. of Professional & Vocational Standards, 7 CA2d 393, 46 P2d 234]

 

“...the commerce clause...has always been understood as limited by its terms; and as a virtual denial of any power to interfere with the internal trade and business of the separate states” [United States v. DeWitt, 76 US 41 9 Wall 4, 19 L. Ed 593]

 

“The law requires proof of jurisdiction to appear on the record of the administrative agency and all administrative proceedings” [Hagans v. Lavine, 415 US 533]

 

 

Subtitle A - Income Tax - the Foreign Tax

 

            Remember that the third paragraph of  Treasury Decision 2313 essentially says that (withholding) "agents", or "representatives", are going to withhold tax (from nonresident aliens).  But, what is the legal definition of a "Withholding Agent", who appears to be the legal entity responsible for the withholding and payment of income taxes ?   Again, from 26 U.S.C. 7701(a):

 

§ 7701 Definitions.

...

(16).   Withholding Agent. - The term "Withholding Agent" means any person required to deduct and withhold any tax under the provisions of sections 1441, 1442, 1443,, or 1461.” ...

 

            So, it appears as though a withholding agent can definitely withhold tax, can’t he ?  Well, let us look at what is truly authorized by these Code Sections referenced here in the definition.  The first thing to point out is that all of the code sections that start with ‘14’ are in Chapter 3 of Title 26.   Chapter 3 is titled:

 

WITHHOLDING OF TAX ON NONRESIDENT ALIENS

AND FOREIGN CORPORATIONS”.  

 

These sections, 1441, 1442, 1443, and 1461, cited in the definition of a Withholding Agent, state:

 

§ 1441Withholding of Tax on Nonresident Aliens.

 

(a) General rule.  Except as otherwise provided in subsection (c) all  persons, in whatever capacity acting having the  control, receipt, custody, disposal or payment of  any of the items of income specified in subsection (b) (to the extent that any of such items constitutes gross income from sources within the United States), of any  nonresident alien individual, or of any foreign  partnership hall deduct and withhold from such items a tax equal to 30 percent thereof, except that  in the case of any items of income specified in the second sentence of subsection (b), the tax shall be equal to 14 percent of such item. (emphasis added)

(b) Income items. ...

 

Section 1441 only authorizes withholding from nonresident aliens. 

 

§ 1442 . Withholding of tax on foreign corporations.

 

(a) General rule.  In the case of foreign corporations subject to taxation under this subtitle, there shall be deducted   and withheld at the source in the same manner and on the same items of income as is provided in  Section 1441 a tax equal to 30%  thereof.  ...

 

(b) Exemption.   Subject to such terms and conditions as may be provided by regulations prescribed by the  Secretary, subsection (a) shall not apply in the case of a foreign corporations engaged in trade of   business in the United States if the Secretary determines that the requirements of subsection (a)  impose an undue administrative burden  and that the collection of the tax imposed by section  881 on such corporation will not be jeopardized by the exemption.

 

(c) Exception for certain possessions corporations.  For purposes of this section, the term "foreign corporation" does not include a corporation created  or organized in Guam, American Samoa, the Northern Marianna Islands, or the Virgin Islands or  under the law of any such possession if the requirements of subparagraphs (A), (B), and (C) of  section 881(b)(1) are met with respect to such corporation.

 

Section 1442 only authorizes the withholding from foreign corporation.

 

§ 1443 Foreign Tax Exempt Organizations

 

(a) Income subject to section 511.

...

(b) Income subject to section 4948.

....

 

Section 1443 only authorizes the withholding from foreign tax exempt organizations. 

 

The last section referenced in the definition of a Withholding Agent, 1461, states:

 

§ 1461 Liability for withheld tax.

 

Every person required to deduct and withhold any tax under this chapter is hereby made liable for such tax and is hereby indemnified against the claims and demands of any person for the amount of any payments made in accordance with the provisions of this chapter. (emphasis added)

 

Section 1461 says withholding agents are made liable for the payment of taxes they withhold from individuals (foreigners).  Well, what do you know ?   Here is a code section  where someone is made liable for such tax.  And who is made liable ?  The withholding agents are made liable for the tax, and that triggers the filing requirements of § 6011.  Remember § 6011 ?   We were looking for someone who was made liable for payment of the tax, and here it is. Section 6011 is the filing requirement for withholding agents, not Citizens, or even individuals.  Withholding agents are made liable in § 1461 for the payment of taxes withheld, and that liability triggers the filing requirements associated with and under § 6011.   And who are Withholding agents authorized to withhold income taxes from ?    Foreigners, and foreigners only.   And what else does § 1461 also say, that they are : "... indemnified against the claims and demands of any person for the amount of any payment made in accordance with the provisions of this chapter".

 

And what Chapter is this from ?  Chapter 3 - Withholding from Foreigners.   And that means that if they wrongfully withhold from someone other than a foreigner, like a Citizen, they’re not indemnified from claims against them for wrongful withholding.   So, U.S. Citizens who have  income tax wrongfully withheld from them, can sue the withholding agent to have those moneys returned. 

 

            Who are the Withholding Agents ?   Well, your bank is a Withholding Agent, your stock broker is a Withholding Agent, your employer is NOT a Withholding Agent.  Your employer is your employer and employers are defined for purposes of implementing the employment taxes imposed in Subtitle C (see 26 USC 3401(d)), and they don’t have anything to do with income taxes under Subtitle A, other than the fact that they are apparently authorized to withhold income taxes at the source by a W-4, which we are going to look at in a minute.  It is clear that by statutory definition Withholding Agents can only withhold from foreigners,  and that they are only indemnified for withholding under Chapter 3, which, as we have seen, is only from foreigners. 

 

             We have just examined the complete legal authority of a "Withholding Agent" to withhold  taxes and, as you can see for yourself,  there is no legal authority anywhere in the law for a Withholding Agent to withhold subtitle A income tax from a U.S. Citizen.   WHY ?  Because the tax is not imposed on the domestic income of Citizens earned by Right, and therefore would never need to be withheld from them ?

 

            Remember the mysterious paragraph C, that nonresident aliens cannot claim, referenced in the third paragraph of Treasury Decision 2313.    Here is  Section 6654 - Failure by individual to pay estimated income tax.  Take careful note of paragraph (e)(2)(C).

 

§  6654. Failure by individual to pay estimated income tax.

 

(a) Addition to the tax.  In the case of any underpayment of estimated tax by an individual, except as provided in subsection (d), there shall be added to the tax under chapter 1 and the tax under chapter 2 for the taxable year an amount determined at an annual rate established under section 6621 upon the amount of the underpayment (determined under subsection(b)) for the period of the underpayment (determined under subsection (c)).

.....

(e) Exceptions.

   (1) Where tax is small amount  ......

   (2) Where no tax liability for preceding taxable year.

    No addition to tax shall be imposed under subsection (a) for any taxable year if -

            A) the preceding taxable year was a taxable year of 12 months,

            B) the individual did not have any liability for tax the preceding

                 taxable year, and

            C) the individual was a Citizen or resident of the United States

                 throughout the preceding taxable year.

   (3) Waiver in certain cases ...    (emphasis added)

 

When you file a Form 1040, what you are actually doing is paying estimated income tax.  And this Section, 6654, addresses the failure by an individual to pay estimated income tax.  Subsection (e) addresses the exceptions for that failure.   Within subsection (e), Subsection (2) provides that where there is "no tax liability for preceding taxable  year" then "No addition to tax shall be imposed under subsection (a) for any taxable year if" the conditions in subparagraph (A), (B) and (C) are met. 

 

            Remember that Citizens do not  have any liability for tax on domestic income, according to the Paperwork Reduction Act tables in the Code of Federal Regulations relating to the tax imposed, and the liability established, under Chapter 1 Section 1 - Tax Imposed.  It is the nonresident aliens who are liable for this tax (and their withholding agents), according to Treasury Decisions 2313

 

            Now let’s look at conditions (A) and (B) as well.  (A) says, “the preceding taxable year was a taxable year of  12 months”.  Well, just about everyone satisfies that condition, and (B) says: “the individual did not have any liability for tax for the preceding taxable year”.  We've seen that all Citizens who do not have foreign earned income or foreign principals satisfy this condition, and then we have, again, (C) “the individual was a Citizen or resident...” .  Citizens and residents aliens are excepted from the failure to pay.  Here is the mysterious paragraph C referenced in Treasury Decision 2313, excepting Citizens from the failure to file and pay estimated income tax.  

 

            If you still are skeptical and don’t believe me, here's Section 1.1441-5 from The Code of  Federal Regulations.

 

26 C.F.R. 1.1441-5  Claiming to be a person not subject to withholding.

 

(a) Individuals.  For purposes of chapter 3 of the code an individual's written statement that he or she is a Citizen of the United States may be relied upon by the payer of the income as proof that such individual is a Citizen or resident of the United States.  This statement shall be furnished to the withholding agent in duplicate.  An alien may claim residence in the United States by filing form 1078 with the withholding agent in duplicate in lieu of the above statement.

(b) Partnerships and Corporations. .....

 

This corresponds to Section 1441 of the United States Code which we reviewed earlier.  It clearly states:

 

"For purposes of chapter 3 of the Code an individual’s written statement that he or she is a Citizen or resident of the United States may be relied upon by the payer of the income as proof that such individual is a Citizen or resident of the United States.”

 

and therefore, is  not subject to the withholding of income taxes.   This is confirmed in Publication 515, the instruction booklet from the IRS, to the employer, on how to implement the subtitle A withholding regulations.  In this booklet it states

 

            WITHHOLDING EXEMPTIONS AND REDUCTIONS

 

You should withhold any required tax if facts indicate that the individual, or the fiduciary, to whom you are to pay the income is a nonresident alien.  However, the alien may be allowed an exemption from withholding or a reduced rate of withholding as explained here.

Evidence of Residence.  If an individual gives you a written statement stating that he or she is a Citizen or resident of the United States, and you do not know otherwise, you do not have to withhold tax.  An alien may claim U.S. residence by filing with you, Form 1078, Certificate of Alien Claiming Residence in the United States...  (emphasis added)

 

Why ?   Because as we have seen, under the law, the tax is not imposed on the domestic income of Citizens, or resident aliens as it turns out, and therefore there is never any need to withhold this tax from those Citizens, as the instructions accurately point out.   That is the extent of the Subtitle A income tax as it is actually imposed under the law.  So what have you been paying ?

 

 

Subtitle C - Employment Tax - the Social Security tax

 

            Now we are going to look at the laws implementing the Subtitle C, Employment tax, for Social Security purposes, which program, tax and subtitle first appeared in the law in the 1930s, some 23 years AFTER the income tax was supposedly created by the 16th Amendment (false belief as previously shown - the tax actually started in 1861).

 

            That brings us to Title 26 , subtitle C, Chapter 24, Section 3402 - Income Tax Collected at Source.  This is where most employers believe they are authorized to withhold income tax from Citizens.   Please note carefully the language of subsections (n) and (p).  For some reason, however, the tax industry in America doesn’t seem to be able to read more than subsection (a) of this code.   But it is a canon of law that “THE LAW MUST BE CONSTRUED FROM ITS FOUR CORNERS, SO AS TO GIVE MEANING TO ALL OF ITS PARTS”.

 

§ 3402.  Income tax collected at source

 

(a) Requirement of withholding.    (1) In general.  Except as otherwise provided in this section, every employer making payment of  wages  shall deduct and withhold upon such  wages a tax  determined in accordance with tables or computational procedures prescribed by the Secretary....

...

(n) Employees incurring no income tax liability  Not withstanding any other provisions of this section an employer shall not be required to deduct and withhold any tax under this chapter upon a payment of wages to an employee if there is in effect with respect to such payment a withholding exemption certificate furnished to the employer by the employee certifying that the employee -

(1) incurred no liability for income tax imposed under subtitle A for

     his preceding taxable year, and

(2)anticipates that he will incur no liability for income tax imposed

     under subtitle A for his current taxable year.....

....

(p) Voluntary withholding agreements  The Secretary is authorized by regulations to provide for withholding -

(1) from remuneration for services performed by an employee for his

      employer which does not constitute wages, and

(2) from any other type of payment with respect to which the Secretary

      finds that withholding would be appropriate under the provisions of this chapter,

if the employer and the employee, or in the case of any other type of payment the person making and the person receiving the payment, agree to such withholding.  Such agreement shall be made in such form and manner as the Secretary may by regulations provide.  For purposes of this chapter  (and so much of subtitle F as relates to this chapter) remuneration or other payments with respect to which such agreement is made shall be treated as if they were wages paid by an employer to an employee to the extent such remuneration is paid or other payments are made during the period for which the agreement is in effect ...(emphasis added)

 

As you can see in Subsection (a) it says: "Except as otherwise provided in this section every employer making payment of wages shall deduct and withhold upon such wages a tax...” .  If one does not read this whole section carefully, it appears that employers are authorized to withhold income taxes from your wages.  But after reading subsections (n) and (p) carefully it is clear that if you tell your employer that you have no liability under subtitle A, and give him a Statement of Citizenship as referenced in 26 CFR 1.1441-5, and that you will not volunteer to agree to such withholding, and will not voluntarily participate in Social Security for reasons of religious objection, then the employer is not required to withhold tax, and in fact has no legal authority left in the law, under which withholding could be legally authorized or effected.

 

And then there is this next section from the same chapter.

 

§ 3404 Return and Payment by Governmental Employer.

 

If the employer is the United States, or a State, or political subdivision thereof, or the District of Columbia, or any agency or instrumentality of any one or more of the foregoing, the return of the amount deducted and withheld upon any wages may be made by any officer or employee of the United States, or of such State, or political subdivision, or of the District of Columbia, or of such agency or instrumentality, as the case may be, having control of the payment of such wages, or appropriately designated for that purpose.

 

Notice carefully HOW THE WORD “RETURN” IS USED HERE.  This is the "return of income" to the Federal government required from Federal employees under the Federal Employment "Kickback" agreement, often referred to as INCOME TAX.   The "return" referenced is clearly NOT A FORM to be filed, but a "kickback" (an actual returning of funds) to the Treasury by the "employer" - The United States GOVERNMENT.  NOBODY ELSE IS REQUIRED TO KICKBACK ANYTHING to the U.S. Treasury..

 

            Now, who are the employers and the employees actually defined in the law, and addressed by these sections, and precisely what are wages.   This next section is also from Title 26, Subtitle C, Chapter 24, where we also find Section 3401, which says:

 

 

3401 Definitions.

....

(c) Employee.  For purposes of this chapter, the term "employee" includes an officer, employee or elected official of the United States, a State, or any political subdivision thereof, or the District of Columbia, or any agency or instrumentality of any one or more of the foregoing.  The term "employee" also includes an officer of a corporation.

 

(d) Employer. For purposes of this chapter, the term "employer" means the person for whom an individual performs or performed any service, of whatever nature, as the employee of such person, ...

 

Only FEDERAL workers and Officers (of Federal corporations) ARE STATUTORILY DEFINED AS EMPLOYEES "for purposes of this chapter".  Are you a Federal employee ?  AND OF COURSE if ONLY Federal workers are employees, WHO IS THE ONLY POSSIBLE EMPLOYER in this chapter ?   THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT.  Are you an officer of a Federal corporation  or a Federal employee ?   (If you are an officer of a private corporation, this statute does not affect you, but even if it did, it could only effect you in regards to the corporate tax affairs, NOT personal matters.)  BY DEFINITION (of “employee”), THIS WHOLE CHAPTER HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH INDIVIDUALS IN THE PRIVATE SECTOR EXCEPT WHEN THEY VOLUNTEER (for Social Security),  It  ONLY addresses Federal "employees" working for the Federal "employer".   Why ?   Because Congress cannot control any employment agreement except its own (the government’s).

 

            We further see the limited federal jurisdiction, reflected by the statutorily defined areas of coverage for these subtitle C taxes, which do NOT include the 50 states, in Chapter 21 for the FICA (Federal Insurance Contributions Act) tax.   Section § 3121 states:

 

§ 3121. Definitions.

...

(e) State, United States, and Citizen.    For purposes of this chapter

 

(1) State.   The term ''State'' includes the District of Columbia, the

Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, the Virgin Islands, Guam, and American Samoa.

 

(2) United States.  The term ''United States'' when used in a geographical sense includes the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, the Virgin Islands, Guam, and American Samoa.  An individual who is a Citizen of the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico (but not otherwise a Citizen of the United States) shall be considered, for purposes of this section, as a Citizen of the United States.

 

            And again, in Chapter 23, Federal Unemployment Tax Act (FUTA), contains Section 3306, which states:

 

§ 3306. Definitions.

...

(j) State, United States, and American employer.  For purposes of this chapter -

 

(1) State.   The term ''State'' includes the District of Columbia, the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, and the Virgin Islands.

 

(2) United States.  The term ''United States'' when used in a geographical sense includes the States, the District of Columbia, the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico,  and the Virgin Islands. 

 

(3) American employer.  The term ''American employer'' means a person who is -

(A) an individual who is a resident of the United States,

(B) a partnership, if two-thirds or more of the partners are residents of the United

      States,

(C) a trust, if all of the trustees are residents of the United States, or

(D) a corporation organized under the laws of the United States or of any State.

An individual who is a Citizen of the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico or the Virgin islands (but not otherwise a Citizen of the United States) shall be considered, for purposes of this section, as a Citizen of the United States...

 

What happened to Guam and American Samoa ?  Clearly there are supposed to be distinct differences in the extent of the taxing Authority established in each of these programs (FICA & FUTA), under each of these Chapters (21 and 23).    Please note the difference in these statutes, which do NOT include the 50 states, and 6103(b)(5), WHICH DOES.

 

            However,  both sections define the terms “United States” and “State” for use within their respective chapters ONLY.  AND SO WE SEE THAT CONGRESS IS CLEARLY CAPABLE of making it explicitly clear where the fifty states are included in the term “STATE” or “UNITED STATES”, AND WHERE THEY ARE NOT.    Obviously, where the States are NOT “included”, IT IS DONE INTENTIONALLY, and not by accidental omission.  THE INTENT is to document the limitation of power granted.  THE IRS IGNORES ALL STATUTORY LIMITATIONS ON THEIR POWER AND ACTS AS THOUGH THEY ARE GOD, and you MUST OBEY THEM OR SUFFER !  BALONEY, not according to the law !

 

            So which of these definitions is applicable and active in Chapter 22 ?   NEITHER !!   Chapter 22 has no Code section that REDEFINES these terms for use in that Chapter, so its definitions for those terms arise and are controlled under Subtitle F - Procedure & Administration, in Section 7701 (remember), which states:

 

§ 7701. Definitions.  

 

(a) When used in this title, where not otherwise distinctly expressed or manifestly incompatible  with the intent thereof -

 ...

(9) United States   The term ''United States'' when used in a geographical sense includes only the States and the District of Columbia.

 

(10) State.   The term ''State'' shall be construed to include the District of Columbia, where such construction is necessary to carry out provisions of this title.

...

 

Now Section 1 - Tax imposed, is contained in Chapter 1 - Normal Taxes & Surtaxes.   Chapter 1 does not have a Code section that redefines these terms for use within it, so the definitions are provided by Section 7701(a)(9) and (10) shown above (for the whole TITLE according to the opening text of subsection (a))

 

                        So, what’s really happening in the private work place?   "Voluntary withholding agreements" under subsection (p) of section 3402, that’s what’s really happening.  When you file a W-4 with your employer, and specify the number of deductions you are claiming on it, you are voluntarily authorizing your employer to withhold income taxes from you.  Naturally, he honors your voluntary request.  But, if you gave him a statement of citizenship instead of a W-4, he would not have any legal authorization at all, anywhere in the law, to withhold any taxes from you.   And the employer is instructed not to withhold income taxes under such circumstances in Publication 515.

 

            One need only look as far as Section 7806 to see that Section 3402 - Income tax collected at source isn't really a legal mandate to withhold income tax at the source , but is rather an authority to withhold employment tax on "wages" when requested to do so (even Section 61 doesn't include "wages"), .

 

§ Section 7806 - Construction of Title.

 

(a) Cross references.  The cross references in this title to other provisions of law, where the word "see" is used, are made only for convenience, and shall be given no legal effect.

 

(b) Arrangement and classification.  No inference, implication, or presumption of legislative construction shall be drawn or made by reason of the location or grouping of any particular section or provision or portion of this title, nor shall any table of contents, table of cross references, or similar outline, analysis, or descriptive matter relating to the contents of this title be given any legal effect.  The preceding sentence also applies to the side notes and ancillary tables contained in the various prints of this Act, before its enactment into law.

 

As you can see the descriptive title of  Sec. 3402. Income Tax Collected at Source,  HAS NO LEGAL EFFECT !   The actual legal authorities established by the law are the limited authorities established by the actual wording of the code section paragraphs. (That is why I'm showing you the actual code sections here.  Can your accountant do this with his claims ?   How about your lawyer ?  I have yet to meet anyone in the country who can rebut this presentation  of law which is why  you need to know about this.)    Section 3402 authorizes the collection of employment taxes on WAGES from Federal employees, not the collection of income taxes on  INCOME from all persons.

 

A W-4 is the "voluntary agreement" referenced in subsection (p) of § 3402Through its execution, you voluntarily create "taxable income" in your name for Social Security purposes, and further request the withholding of income tax from your wages when you specify a number of deductions to be taken.

 

According to 26 CFR 1.1441-5 a Statement of Citizenship may serve as the "withholding exemption certificate" referenced in subsection (n) of § 3402.   And a W-2 may be USED AS A SUBSTITUTE FOR A FORM 1040, as indicated by the Federal Register.  The most direct proof that the IRS violates the RIGHTS of the Citizens of the United States of America by controlling their labor through an UNLAWFUL DEBT PROCESS (not tax law), based in "voluntarily" executed legal instruments (W-4, 1040, etc.) that establish a DEBT in the name of, and under the guise and pretense, of  TAX, is THEIR OWN NOTICE IN THE FEDERAL REGISTER.  This notice appeared in the Federal Register dated Sept. 11, 1946 at 117A-39.  It reads:

 

FORM W-2.  Withholding statement.  

This is a statement of wages paid during the calendar year and the amount of income tax withheld on such wages, if any.  The original and duplicate are furnished by the employer to employee at the close of the calendar year or upon termination of his status as an employee.  The original is used as an optional Income Tax Return by the employee in lieu of Form 1040.

(emphasis added)

 

The FACT that the IRS is INSTRUCTED TO ACCEPT THE W-2  FORM AS A SUBSTITUTE FORM 1040 IS PROOF that the IRS' true authority is limited to the collection of a "kickback" on Federal "wages".   The term "wages" in the I.R. Code technically means ONLY covered earnings that are paid to Federal government employees for personal services.  Covered under the Social Security provisions, and includible in gross income under Subtitle A of the I.R. Code.  IF THE IRS had authority to collect on other forms of income, (i.e. interest, dividends, pensions, etc.) THEY WOULD NOT BE INSTRUCTED TO IGNORE THESE OTHER FORMS OF INCOME AND ACCEPT THE W-2 (that the employer, the Federal government, is required to make) IN LIEU OF A FORM 1040, now would they ?.

 

Wages

 

20 CFR 404.1041 Wages.

 

(a) the term "wages" means remuneration paid to you as an employee for employment unless specifically excluded....

(b) if you are paid wages it is not important what they are called. Salaries, fees, bonuses and commissions on sales or on insurance premiums are wages if they are paid for employment.....

 

20 CFR 404.1003 Employment.

 

Employment means, generally any service covered by social security performed by an employee  for his or her employer...

 

20 CFR 404.1004 What work is covered as employment.

 

(a) General requirements of employment.  Unless otherwise excluded..., the work you perform as an employee for your employer is covered as employment under social security if one of the following situations applies:

(1) You perform the work within the United States...

(2) You perform the work outside the United States and you are a Citizen or     resident...

 

OK. Is that all clear.  Maybe this will help:

 

20 CFR 404.1001 Introduction

 

(a)(1) In general, your social security benefits are based on your earnings that are on our records... you receive credit only for earnings that are covered for social security purposes.  The earnings are covered only if your work is covered.   If you are an employee.....Some work is covered by Social Security and some work is not.  Also, some earnings are covered by social security and some are not.  It is important that you are aware of what kinds of work and earnings are covered so that you will know whether your earnings should be on our records.

(2) If you are an employee, your covered work is called "employment."...

(3) If your work is "employment" your covered earnings are called "wages".

 

I'm sorry, ISN'T THIS WHERE WE STARTED with WAGES.   Don't  you just love circular legal definitions that define themselves with references to variations of themselves ?  I mean, I hope you don't just think I'm making this up on my own.  I couldn't dream this stuff up, ever.

 

Discussion on Wages

 

            The term "wages" is also defined in Section 3401 in Subtitle C, where it does not relate to anything but Employment taxes, for Social Security purposes, under Chapter 24.   WAGES  HAVE NOTHING TO DO WITH INCOME TAXES UNDER SUBTITLE A.   "Wages" are "covered earnings".  Covered earnings are earnings that are taxed, at your request, for the purpose of accumulating "credits" to be used in calculating future Social Security benefit payments.

 

 Section 3401(a) states:

 

§ 3401 Definitions.

 

(a) Wages.  For purposes of this chapter, the term "wages" means all remuneration (other than fees paid to a public official) for services performed by an employee for his employer, including the cash value of all remunerations paid in any medium other than cash.

 

This definition eludes to the existence of an employment agreement between two parties.  It states that wages are only what is received for personal services performed by an employee for his employer .  Hence, the term "wages" does NOT extend beyond that relationship/agreement.   This fact brings out the importance of knowing just WHO is an "employee", and WHO is the "employer" referred to within the Internal Revenue Code (in this chapter) and what exactly constitutes “wages”, because, as we have seen, IN THIS CHAPTER, THAT CAN ONLY BE  THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT according to the definition of "employee".

 

            These definitions have been expanded BY PRESUMPTION and voluntary permissions, NOT law,  to include private sector employers participating in the Social Security program as collectors and "payers", by voluntary assumption through application.   So, when you have given a Social Security number to your boss on a W-4, he then becomes your "employer", by virtue of your request, and you then have "wages" (covered earnings), and you thus become an "employee", and your work is called "employment", and you become subject to the federal tax code administering the Social Security tax provisions imposed on those who voluntarily assume them under the misguided and mistaken belief that one day (somewhere, far off in the future) they will get a “benefit” from their participation.  History says otherwise.  Those who fail to learn the lessons of history are doomed to repeat them.  

 

            If you do not participate in Social Security or choose to NOT provide your social security number, then you are NOT "legally" an "employee", and you just have earnings, NOT "wages", and you just have a job not "employment", and you have a boss, not an "employer".  Especially if you don't work for the Federal government.  ALL WITHHOLDING FROM CITIZENS HINGES ON “COVERED” EARNINGS (wages) for the Social Security tax program.  And your boss became an “employer" when he voluntarily applied for an EIN (employment identification number) to participate in the Social Security system as a WITHHOLDER OF EMPLOYMENT TAXES (employer) under subtitle C, NOT subtitle A.    Some of these definitions (descriptive paragraphs) are in Title 20 - Education, because just like public schooling, Social Security is VOLUNTARY, not mandatory  (one can choose a private school, and one can choose a private retirement program, if he wishes).   As a final point it should be noted that 404.1001(a)(5)(b) also states:

 

            "...We generally do not include rules that are seldom used..."

 

LIKE CITIZENS THAT DON'T PARTICIPATE IN SOCIAL SECURITY !

 

Now, code section 26 U.S.C. § 3406, which is used to justify or order backup withholding, states:

 

§ 3406. Backup Withholding.

 

(a)Requirement to deduct and withhold.

   (1) In general.  In the case of any reportable payment, if -

      (A) the payee fails to furnish his TIN to the payor in the manner required,

      (B) the Secretary notifies the payor that the TIN furnished by payee is           incorrect,

      (C) there has been a notified payee under-reporting described in subsection (c),          or

      (D) there has been a payee certification failure described in subsection (d), then         the payor shall deduct and withhold from such payment a tax equal to 31            percent of such payment.

 

     (2) Subparagraphs (c) and (d) of paragraph (1) apply only to interest and           dividend payments. Subparagraphs (C) and (D) of paragraph (1) shall      apply only to reportable interest or dividend payments .....

 

            So if anyone tries to backup withhold from your SALARY OR WAGES, you ask him where that's authorized in the law, because these sections ONLY APPLY TO INTEREST AND DIVIDENDS and patronage dividends.    Section 3406 is worth examining a little closer.  Paragraphs B and C within it, state that a notice is required from the Secretary; i.e. NO NOTICE = NO legal authority to “Backup Withhold” - the Secretary must make a formal request, or the payor cannot do it.  Subsection A specifies a failure of a “manner required” to provide a number.  So we will examine the “manner required” for reporting of remuneration to non-employees, which is specified in 26 U.S.C. 6041 et. seq., dependent upon the source of the payment (bank, broker, corporation, etc.), as we will see.

 

Also, it is worth noting that  26 U.S.C. Section 3451 states:

 

§ 3451. Income Tax Collected at Source on Interest, Dividends and Patronage Dividends.

(a) Requirement of withholding.  Except as otherwise provided in this subchapter, the payor of any interest, dividend or patronage dividend shall withhold  a tax equal to 10 percent of the amount of the payment.

(b) Special Rules.

 (1) Time of Withholding.  Except as otherwise provided in this subchapter, for the purposes of this subchapter--

  (A) any payment of interest, dividend, or patronage dividend shall be treated as   made, and

  (B) the tax imposed by this section shall be withheld,

            at the time of such interest, dividend, or patronage dividend is paid or        credited.

 

So, there is NO authority, anywhere in the law, to backup withhold income tax from the payments or earnings of a United States Citizen who is NOT an employee with covered earnings (wages), only foreigners.   If you have given a Statement of Citizenship to your broker (agent), that agent cannot backup withhold  from your interest and dividends legally, even if he is ordered to, because the Statement of Citizenship relieves the agent from the duty of (and destroys the legal authority to) withhold(ing) income tax  from that individual, as stated in Publication 515.

 

            The following Code Section, 6041, is where the reporting of income to non-employees (contracted persons) on a Form 1099 originates.  Also note that (uncovered) “wages” may be reported here. It states, in pertinent parts:

 

§ 6041. Information at source.

 

  (a) Payments of $600 or more.    All persons engaged in a trade or business and making payment in the course of such trade to another person, of rent, salaries, wages, premiums, annuities, compensations, remunerations, emoluments, or other fixed or determinable gains, profits and income (other than payments to which section 6042(a)(1), 6044(a)(1), 6047(e), 6049(a), or 6050(N)(a) applies, and other than payments with respect to which a statement is required under the authority of section 6042(a)(2), 6044(a)(2), or 6045), of $600 or more in any taxable year, or, in the case of such payments made by the United States, the officers or employees of the United States having information as to such payments and required to make returns in regard thereto by the regulations, hereinafter provided for, shall render a true and accurate return to the Secretary, under such regulations and in such form and manner and to such extent as may be prescribed by the Secretary, setting forth the amount of such gains, profits and income, and the name and address of the recipient of such payment.

.......

(c) Recipient to furnish name and address.    When necessary to make effective the provisions of this section, the name and address of the recipient of income shall be furnished upon demand of the person paying the income.  (emphasis added)

 

and for brokers,

 

6045. Returns of brokers

 

     (a) General rule.   Every person doing business as a broker shall, when required by the Secretary, make a  return, in accordance with such regulations as the Secretary may prescribe, showing the name and address of each customer, with such details regarding gross proceeds and such other information as the Secretary may by forms or regulations require with respect to such business...

 

and for banks,

 

6049. Returns regarding payments of interest.

 

(a) Requirement of reporting .   Every person -

(1) who makes payments of interest (as defined in subsection (b)) aggregating $10

      or more to any other person during any calendar year, or <BR>

 (2) who receives payments of interest (as so defined) as a nominee and who

       makes payments aggregating $10 or more during any calendar year to any

       other person with respect to the interest so received, shall make a return

       according to the forms or regulations prescribed by the Secretary, setting forth

       the aggregate amount of such payments and the name and address of the

       person to whom paid. ....

 

and for corporate distributions,

 

6042. Returns regarding payments of dividends and corporate earnings and profits

 

     (a) Requirement of reporting

          (1) In general  Every person -

           (A) who makes payments of dividends aggregating $10 or more to any

                 other  person during any calendar year, or

            (B) who receives payments of dividends as a nominee and who makes

                  payments aggregating $10 or more during any calendar year to any

                  other person with  respect to the dividends so received, shall make a

                  return according to the forms or regulations prescribed by the

                  Secretary, setting forth the aggregate amount of such payments

                  and the name and address of the person to whom paid...

 

6044. Returns regarding payments of patronage dividends

 

     (a) Requirement of reporting

          (1) In general.     Except as otherwise provided in this section, every

               cooperative to which part I of subchapter T of chapter 1 applies, which

               makes payments of amounts described in subsection (b) aggregating $10

               or more to any person during any calendar year, shall make a return

               according to the forms of regulations prescribed by the Secretary, setting

                forth the aggregate amount of such payments and the name and

                address of the person  to whom paid...

 

Now, do you see any requirement anywhere, in any of these code sections, to use a social security number when making reports on these types of earnings !    WHY DO YOU SUPPOSE THEY (banks, brokers, corporations) ALL TRY TO DEMAND A NUMBER FROM YOU ?    COULD IT BE THE RESULTING TAX AND DEBT IMPLICATIONS ?   CAN THEY LEGALLY REQUIRE YOU TO SUPPLY ONE ?   NOT ACCORDING TO THE LAW !

 

            SO, do you see any requirement to provide an SSN, or any other number, to a payor who will be reporting your (ANY) earnings on a Form 1099, INSTEAD of on a Form W-2 ?  No, its not there. 

 

            As stated, this section (6041) and the others, are the code sections  where the use of the Form 1099 originates (reporting payments to individuals NOT "covered" by Social Security). Carefully note that this reporting requirement DOES NOT REQUIRE a Social Security number, a TIN, or any other number from the individual.  These sections ONLY requires the NAME and ADDRESS of the recipient. So give your clients (and/or your employer) your name and address on a Statement of Citizenship ( as specified in C.F.R. 1.1441-5 Claiming to be a Person Not Subject to Withholding), refuse to supply a social security number on a W-4 (because it is voluntary), and tell them to report your earnings on a Form 1099 instead of on a Form W-2 using your name and address as specified in the United States Code.   Does that really sound so tough ?   Without a SSN on the Form 1099, the IRS computers will not recognize that income as “taxable income, and consequently, will never try to collect tax on it, income or employment.    In fact there is some question as to whether these reports, without SSNs, ever even get entered into the IRS computer systems because without an SSN, or some other number, the record will never “link” to any “person” or report, for IRS examination or audit purposes, and therefore is useless information that can never be utilized by the “system”.  Why bother enter it, it just takes up computer hard disk space?

 

            Oh, you say, YOU ALREADY GAVE YOUR EMPLOYER A W-4.  DID HE TELL YOU IT WAS VOLUNTARY, or claim it was mandatory ?  If he did, that was fraud.   Did he tell you that you can terminate the W-4 with written notice to him indicating such desire on your part ?  Probably NOT.   So, why not use the law AND TERMINATE YOUR W-4 AGREEMENT tomorrow with this letter.

 


{American Citizen}

{Citizen Address}

{City}, {ST}.  {ZIP}

 

{Employer Contact Name}

{Employer Company Name}                             

{Employer Street Address}

{Employer City, ST Zip-Code}

 

Re: Notice of Termination of Current W-4 Agreement.

 

Dear {Employer Contact Name},

 

             This letter is to inform you that I am no longer voluntarily  participating in the social security system.  Through a recent intensive study of the law, and of the Bible, I have reached the personal religious and legal conclusion that it is fundamentally evil to attempt to enumerate human flesh.  This conclusion is based on the biblical prophecy contained in Revelation Chapter 13:

 

16  And he causeth all, both small and great, rich and poor, free and bond, to receive a

      mark in their right hand, or in their foreheads;

17  And that no man might buy or sell, save he that had the mark, or the name of the

      beast, or the number of his name.

18  Here is wisdom.  Let him who hath understanding count the number of the beast,

      for it is the number of a man; ...

 

            It is my belief that this biblical prophecy is being realized in America today through the preponderant misuse of social security numbers by the government and its financial institutions, where men are coerced into betraying their faith in God and His security, and are convinced or forced into replacing that faith with a false allegiance to the electronic systems of mankind, administered through the assigned numbers.  I prefer, and my personal religious beliefs demand, that I place my faith in God himself, rather than the "social security" of mere mortal men and their government promises of  “security”.

 

            The laws and regulations providing for the withholding of employment taxes associated with the Social Security program are found in Title 26, Subtitle C, Chapters 21 through Chapter 24.   The legal provisions for the implementation of the Social Security program and the withholding of tax are contained therein.

 

            Section 3402(a), which provides for the withholding of income tax from employees, by employers, clearly states:

 

§ 3402.  Income tax collected at source

 

(a) Requirement of withholding.   

 

(1) In general.  Except as otherwise provided in this section, every employer making payment of  wages  shall deduct and withhold upon such  wages a tax  determined in accordance with tables or computational procedures prescribed by the Secretary....

 

            The conditions necessary, to be granted an exception from the tax withholding requirement of this statute, as provided by the specific language of this section, are specified at 3402(n), which states:

 

(n) Employees incurring no income tax liability

Not withstanding any other provisions of this section an employer shall not be required to deduct and withhold any tax under this chapter upon a payment of wages to an employee if there is in effect with respect to such payment a withholding exemption certificate furnished to the employer by the employee certifying that the employee -

(1) incurred no liability for income tax imposed under subtitle A for

     his preceding taxable year, and

(2)anticipates that he will incur no liability for income tax imposed

     under subtitle A for his current taxable year.....

....

 

            The attached duplicate Statements of Citizenship provide to you the certification necesary, as specified by this subsection, for you to except myself  from the withholding of this subtitle A income tax from my wages; as I have certified to you therein that I have  no statutory liability for tax under subtitle A, as required by law.

 

            Furthermore, in the Code of Federal Regulations at Section 31.3402, which corresponds to 26 USC 3402(p),  it states in pertinent parts:

 

31.3402 (p) -1 Voluntary withholding agreements.

 

(a)  In general. An employee and his employer may enter into an agreement under section 3402 (p) to provide for the withholding of income tax…

 

(b)  … an employee who desires to enter into an agreement under section 3402 (p) shall furnish his employer with Form W-4 (withholding exemption certificate) executed in accordance with the provisions of section 3402 (f) and the regulations thereunder.  The furnishing of such Form W-4 shall constitute a request for withholding....

 

Furthermore, 26 C.F.R. 31.3402 (p) -1(b)(2) states :

 

"An agreement under Section 3402(p) shall be effective for such period as the employer and the employee mutually agree upon.  However, either the employer or the employee may terminate the agreement prior to the end of such period by furnishing a signed written notice to the other." (emphasis added)

 

            Per the instructions provided by these regulations, this is my formal notice to you, my  "employer", that I wish to formally terminate between us any and all W-4 agreements on file with you, as per 26 CFR Sec. 31.3402 (p) -1(b)(2), effectively immediately.   Consequently, all use of my social security number in making reports to the IRS must cease immediately, and the company must stop immediately the withholding of all employment taxes imposed under Subtitle C of Title 26, because, since I am no longer a voluntary participant in the Social Security program, I am no longer subject by law or regulation to the withholding or payment of those taxes associated with the administration of that welfare "benefits" program; because  the laws and regulations implementing the Social Security program only apply to those individuals who have  voluntarily chosen to participate in it.

 

            Although the FICA statutes are in Chapter 21, rather than Chapter 24, where the above cites are taken from, Chapter 21, like Chapter 24, is also part of the administration of Subtitle C - Employment Taxes (from Title 26).  The different chapters of Subtitle C, ALL implement different elements of the Social Security program provisons and taxes (FICA, MED, FUTA, etc.).  BUT THEY ARE ALL  TAXES, whose withholding is completely dependent upon there being a current, active W-4 (request for withholding) between the employee and the employer.  

 

            The fact that social security is not mandatory in the 50 states of the Union is clearly revealed by the definitions provided for "State" and "United States" in Title 26 Section 3121 of Chapter 21, controlling the territorial limits for mandatory implementation of the program.  Subsection (e) of 3121 provides:

 

(e) State, United States, and citizen

 

    For purposes of this chapter -

   (1) State

   The term ''State'' includes the District of Columbia, the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico,

    the Virgin Islands, Guam, and American Samoa.

   (2) United States

    The term ''United States'' when used in a geographical sense includes the

    Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, the Virgin Islands, Guam, and American Samoa. An

    individual who is a citizen of the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico (but not otherwise a

    citizen of the United States) shall be considered, for purposes of this section, as a

    citizen of the United States.

 

            These limited subtitle C definitions of areas covered clearly show that the Subtitle C Employment Taxes are NOT direct mandatory taxes in the 50 states, which would be a violation of the Constitution of the United State of America, but are voluntary taxes for Citizens in the states who wish to assume them, collected indirectly by employers at the employee's request, and are totally dependent upon the employee's voluntary decision to participate in the Social Security program, and the providing to the employer by the employee of  a request to withhold (on a W-4), which I am refusing to do from this time forward.   If you continue to withhold these taxes after taking receipt of this letter terminating your legal authority to withhold social security tax from me, you will be guilty of manifesting a condition of involuntary servitude upon my person,  in violation of the 13th Amendment to the Constitution of the United States of America, and will thus become liable to me for all damges that accrue as result of your unlawful encumbrance upon my remuneration, and deprivation of my rights to property.   The fact that the laws record the fact that I am allowed to terminate my request for withholding is irrefutable proof of these facts.

 

            The fundamentally voluntary nature of the Social Security program is evidenced by the decision of the United States Supreme Court in the case of Railroad Retirement Board v. Alton Railroad Co, 295 U.S. 330, 55 S. Ct. 758 (1935), wherein the court ruled that Congress did not have authority to create a mandatory benefits program and cannot compel U.S. Citizens to participate in any benefits program:

 

"The catalogue of means and actions which might be imposed upon an employer in any business, tending to the satisfaction and comfort of his employees, seems endless.  Provision for free medical assistance, nursing, clothing, food, housing, and education of children, and  a hundred other matters might with equal propriety be proposed as tending to relieve the employee of mental strain and worry.  Can it fairly be said that the power of Congress to regulate interstrate commerce extends to the prescription of any or all of these things ?  It is not apparent that they are really and essentially related solely to the social welfare of the worker, and therefore remote from any regulation of commerce as such ?  We think the answer is plain.  These matters obviously lie outside the orbit of congressional power."

 

             This letter terminates your authority to withhold from my paychecks the employment taxes imposed under Subtitle C, and terminates my permission to use my social security number in making reports to the IRS, which would have the effect of mis-representing my person as one who is continuing to voluntarily participate in the social security program, which is not true

 

            If you believe that there is a statutory authority that exists for you to continue to withhold tax from my pay under Subtitle A - income taxes, that allows you to continue to use my social security number for making reports to the IRS for such Subtitle A reporting purposes, please cite the Code section within Subtitle A (Chapters 1 through 6 of Title 26) that you believe grants you the authority to withhold income tax from a United States Citizen, and to use my social security number for such Subtitle A reporting, in your response to this letter.   If you cannot cite a statutory authority under Subtitle A to withhold tax from a United States Citizen and use my social security number in conjunction with Subtitle A tax reporting, I will presume that you understand that you no longer have any legal authority under which you may operate to withhold taxes from my paychecks or use my social security number, and consequently, you will cease immediately all such withholding from my pay, and cease all use of my social security number for reporting purposes.    Thank you for your prompt attention to this matter.  

 

Sincerely,

 

 

{American Citizen}

========================================================

 

NOW COULD THAT BE ANY EASIER TO DO !

 

If your employer (or his lawyer) is worried about IRS penalties, show them:

 

§ Sec. 6724. Waiver; definitions and special rules.

 

(a) Reasonable cause waiver .  No penalty shall be imposed under this part with respect to any failure if it is shown that such failure is due to reasonable cause and not to willful neglect.

 

            This shows that your employer and clients cannot be penalized by the IRS if you have provided the correct documentation when making your requests (see C.F.R. 1.1441-5 Claiming to be a Person Not Subject to Withholding). Certainly, being relieved of the duty of withholding tax  (Publication 515) under the presentation of Statement of Citizenship is “reasonable cause” and not “willful neglect”.

 

Furthermore,

 

“ 1989 Internal Revenue Code Section 6676, 26 USC. § 6676 (1989) set forth the penalties for failing to supply the IRS with identifying numbers as required by the code...a $50.00 penalty will be imposed for failure of an employer to provide an identifying number on any document filed with the IRS unless it is shown that the failure was due to reasonable cause and not willful neglect. The Treasury Regulation interpreting the Statute states:

 

Under Section § 301.6109-1 (c) a payor is required to request the identifying number of the payee.   If after such a request has been made the payee does not furnish the payor with his identifying number the penalty will not be assessed against the payor.

(emphasis added)   Treas. Reg. § 3l0.6676-1 (1989)”

 

It is interesting to note that section 3403 - Liability for Tax, states:

 

§ 3403.   Liability for tax.

 

The employer shall be liable for the payment of the tax required to be deducted and withheld under this chapter, and shall not be liable to any person for the amount of any such payment. (emphasis added)

 

There you go, the employer is liable!  The employers are liable, and that triggers the filing requirements of Section 6001 , remember, where "Every person liable...".  It’s the employers who are liable, and the withholding agents who are made liable, and both of those sections, 6001 and 6011, establishing the associated filing requirements, are there so that the government can prosecute anyone who withholds income taxes and doesn’t pay them over to the Federal Treasury.  Remember that Section 6001 referenced "employers" in its third sentence ?  This is why, according to Section 3403 "THE EMPLOYER SHALL BE LIABLE", not the individuals.  By its own specific language Section 6001 only relates to those "persons" who are liable - the employers.

 

            These are the ONLY code sections in existence that establish liability for the payment of income tax, other than the limited liability for foreign earned income imposed and established by Chapter 1, Section 1 - Tax imposed (the income tax), which we have already examined.  There are no other Code Sections anywhere in the United States Code that establish liability for payment of the income tax.  And as you have seen, what the U.S. Citizens are actually  liable for under the law is the payment of  income tax on privileged (foreign or federal) sources, not domestic income earned by Right.

 

            And from the Supreme Court on this subject:

 

“The reasonable construction of the taxing statutes does not include vesting any tax official with absolute power of assessment against individuals not specified in the statutes as persons liable for the tax without an opportunity for judicial review of this status before the appellation of “taxpayer” is bestowed upon them and their property seized.”  [Botta v. Scanlon, 228 F. 2nd 304 (1961)] .


 

                                                            It is Voluntary

 

“Let me point this out now.  Your [subtitle C “employment”] income tax is 100 percent voluntary and your liquor tax is 100 percent enforced tax.  Now the situation is as different as day and night.  Consequently, your same rules just will not apply...”  (BUT SOMEHOW, TODAY, THE IRS CLAIMS THEY DO !) 

Dwight E. Avis, Head of ATF, IRS - House Ways and Means Subcommittee Hearings - 1953

 

"You are among the millions of Americans who comply with the tax law voluntarily."

(1992 Form 1040 Tax Instruction Booklet)

 

"Two aspects of the Federal Income Tax system - voluntary compliance with the law and self-assessment of tax - make it important for you to understand your rights and responsibilities as a taxpayer.  'Voluntary compliance'  places on the taxpayer the responsibility for filing an income tax return.  You must decide whether the law requires you to file a return.  If it does, you must file your return by the date it is due." (IRS Publication 21)

 

"The IRS's goal is to increase the rate at which taxpayers voluntarily pay their taxes from the current 82.3% to 90% by 2001." (The Washington Post front page Dec. 2, 1993 - "IRS Hopes Change")

 

"Each year American taxpayers voluntarily file their tax returns and make a special effort to pay the taxes they owe."   (Johnie M. Walters IRS Commissioner, 1971 Form 1040 Booklet)

 

"Our tax system is based on individual self-assessment and voluntary compliance." (Mortimer Caplin, IRS Commissioner, 1975 IRS IR Audit Manual)

 

"The mission of the service is to encourage and achieve the highest possible degree of voluntary compliance." (Donald C. Alexander, IRS Commissioner, Federal Register, March 1974)

 

"The IRS's primary task is to collect taxes under a voluntary compliance system. (Jerome Kurtz IRS Commissioner,  1980 IR Annual Report)

 

"We have a voluntary compliance system." (Fred Goldberg, IRS Commissioner, Nightline with Ted Koppel, Apr.13, 1990)

 

and finally, from the Supreme Court of the United States of America, the highest authority in the land:

 

"Our system of taxation is based on voluntary assessment and payment, not upon distraint (force)." (United States v. Flora, 362 US 145 (1958))

 

            This is a whole page full of statements that the IRS has made, in public, to the media and the People, regarding the "true nature of our tax situation".  The sources are quoted.    In these, the IRS repeatedly states over and over again that Citizens comply with the tax laws voluntarily, and that our tax system is based on voluntary compliance and self assessment, and now you know why.  Because if the Citizen does not voluntarily comply, and through his own ignorance of the law, misapply the code and use the wrong form, the whole system fails.  And that’s why they say it’s voluntary, because under the law, it is.  And, if you do comply voluntarily, then they can use against you the information that you provided on the Form,  because the courts have ruled that when you perform a voluntary self assessment (file a Form 1040), you establish the liability for payment of the tax necessary for the IRS to collect and enforce the amount assessed. 

 

            But there is no statutory liability imposed on Citizens for the payment of income tax on domestic income, only foreign income under tax treaties and on income from federal sources.  You, the Citizen, create your own liability for the income tax that grants the IRS the jurisdictional authority to enforce and collect the numbers you show on your return when you voluntarily  perform that self assessment using the wrong form.  And, it doesn’t  matter that you misapplied the law or used the wrong form; you establish the liability voluntarily with the assessment, and it is then legal, and you owe it.  You have to pay it, and they can enforce it if you don't.  And if they find anything incorrect or fraudulent on the return, they can assess penalties and interest because the assessment was incorrect or not done properly.

 

            I don’t know if anybody noticed, but if you look back to the table in 26 CFR 602.101, where we saw the OMB Document Control Numbers required by Section 1.1-1, on the next line 1.23-5 appears, which does require the form numbered 1545-0074, Form 1040.   Some of you may have noticed this and thought I was trying to slip one by you.  So, here’s 1.23-5

 

26 CFR 1.23-5   Certification Procedures.

 

 (a) Certification that an item meets the definition of an energy-conserving component or renewable energy source property.  Upon request of a manufacturer of an item....the Assistant Commissioner shall certify ...  that :

  (1) the item meets the definition of insulation (see ........

 

This is from the Code of Federal Regulations, and it starts:

 

"Certification procedures.  (a) Certification  that an item meets the definition of an energy-conserving component or renewable energy source property..."

 

Section 1.23-5  is the renewable energy resource credit.  If you want to claim this deduction, or that credit, you have to file Form 1040, because it’s the proper legal vehicle or mechanism through which that deduction is claimed.  And there are a lot of other deductions and credits and legal reasons why Form 1040 would be required.  If you want to claim a refund, you have to file Form 1040, because that’s the established  legal mechanism through which a Citizen claims a refund.   If you want to claim certain credits, or take certain deductions, you have to file Form 1040 because that is the  legal mechanism through which those credits and deductions are claimed.  But, if all you want to do is  satisfy the liability for tax on taxable income that you as a Citizen have, without claiming any deductions, or taking any credits, then the only form that you are required to file is Form 2555, not Form 1040.  Because Form 2555 is the only form required by law, the proper vehicle for you to use to satisfy the liability you have for income tax as an individual Citizen, according to the law.  So, how does the IRS get away with doing what they have been doing for so long? 

 

            Remember that if you want to claim a refund, you MUST file a Form 1040 because it is the legal mechanism through which a refund is claimed !!   This is why they deceptively withhold from you when you are young and start working at your first job.  You are young and naive, and know nothing about the tax law and they take advantage of your ignorance and withhold more than is necessary.   You are gradually conditioned, or programmed, to file a return TO GET  A REFUND, NOT to pay the tax.   Then when you get older, you've been filing the Form 1040 all your life, so you continue doing what you did all along, ignorantly;  because you are no longer filing to get a refund, NOW YOU'RE FILING TO PAY A TAX THAT YOU ARE NOT LIABLE  BY LAW TO PAY !

 

IF ALL YOU WANT TO DO IS SATISFY YOUR LIABILITY, YOU DO NOT USE FORM 1040.

 

CITIZENS USE FORM 2555  to satisfy liability !  At least that's what the law says !

 

That's because, as far as individuals are concerned,

 

THE INCOME TAX IS STILL JUST A FOREIGN TAX !

 

I know old habits are hard to break, and that all of this information doesn't agree with what you have been told to believe all of your life, and in fact, doesn't seem possible, but keep reading because the truth is far stranger than fiction and the law records the truth.  And, as you will see, IGNORANCE CAN BE ELIMINATED WITH KNOWLEDGE, ITS STUPIDITY THAT REMAINS FOREVER, and

THE TRUTH WILL SET YOU FREE !

 

CHAPTER 3

 

ENFORCEMENT

            Remember earlier, the question was raised: "What is taxable income ?"   Section 63 is the code section that the IRS claims establishes what "taxable income" is.   It states:

 

§ 63. Taxable income defined

 

(a) In general.  Except as otherwise provided in subsection (b), for purposes of this subtitle, the term "taxable income"  means gross income minus the deductions allowed  by this chapter (other than the standard deduction).

(b) Individuals who do not itemize their deductions ..........

 

The IRS claims that since the definition of "taxable income" references "gross income" (defined in Section 61), then everything that anybody makes that is listed in Section 61 is taxable income and must be reported.  That is the complete and total argument that the IRS makes in its demand for income taxes.  Section 61 states:

 

§ 61.  Gross income defined.

 

(a) General definition.  Except as otherwise provided in this subtitle, gross income means all income from whatever source derived, including (but not limited to) the following items:

      (1) Compensation for services, including fees, commissions, fringe benefits and           similar items;

      (2) Gross income derived from business;

      (3) Gains derived from dealings in property;

      (4) Interest;

      (5) Rents;

      (6) Royalties;

      (7) Dividends;

      (8) Alimony and separate maintenance payments;

      (9) Annuities;

      (10) Income from life insurance and endowment contracts;

      (11) Pensions;

      (12) Income from discharge of indebtedness;

      (13) Distributive share of partnership gross income;

      (14) Income in respect of a decedent; and

      (15) Income from an interest in an estate or trust.

 

(b) Cross references.

         For items specifically included in gross income, see part II

         (Sec. 71 and following).  For items specifically excluded

         from gross income, see part III (Sec. 101 and following).

 

            Do you see where subsection (a) lists possible sources and  where subsection (b) says where to find the items specifically included in gross income.    Do you understand the difference between a possible source and an included item.  What exactly are those “items specifically included”  ?

 

Part II.    Items specifically included in gross income.

      § 71. Alimony and separate maintenance payments.

      § 72. Annuities; certain proceeds of endowment and life insurance contracts.

      § 73. Services of child.

      § 74. Prizes and awards.

      § 75. Dealers in tax-exempt securities.

       (76. Repealed.)

      § 77. Commodity credit loans.

      § 78. Dividends received from certain foreign corporations by domestic

               corporations choosing foreign tax credit.

      § 79. Group-term life insurance purchased for employees.

      § 80. Restoration of value of certain securities.

        (81. Repealed.)

      § 82. Reimbursement of moving expenses.

      § 83. Property transferred in connection with performance of services.

      § 84. Transfer of appreciated property to political organizations.

      § 85. Unemployment compensation.

      § 86. Social security and tier 1 railroad retirement benefits.

      § 87. Alcohol fuel credit.

      § 88. Certain amounts with respect to nuclear decommissioning costs.

        (89. Repealed.)

      § 90. Illegal Federal irrigation subsidies.

 

            I have not received any income from any of these items specifically included, have you ?  The IRS, of course, claims that the sources are the actual included items, ignoring entirely the  precise language (and obvious repercussions) of subsection (b).

 

Do the regulations help clear up this confusion between items and sources ?   Well, yes they do.

Sources are described by the Secretary of the Treasury in the Code of Federal Regulations and are the legally binding definition of 'sources' that must apply to an income for it to be classified as   'Gross Income'.   

 

Subchapter N establishes the legal limitations of the sources subject to tax, based on income from sources within or without the United States.  For U.S. citizens, the sources subjected to taxation are treated in Section 911 and 931.  In Section 911, a U.S. citizen living and working abroad, and thus having sources  without the U.S., is subjected to taxation.  In Section 931, the sources subjected to taxation are those sources earned within a possession of the United States.  For U.S. citizens, who were born in the U.S., who are domiciled in  the U.S., and who have sources of income within the U.S.,  there is no income tax imposed on any source.  From Title 26, we have:

 

       Subchapter N. Tax based on income from sources within or without the United States

 

            Part I.   Source rules and other general rules relating to foreign income.

            Part II.  Nonresident aliens and foreign corporations

            Part III. Income from sources without the United States

             (Sections 911 and 931 are contained herein)

            Part IV. Domestic international sales corporations.

            Part V.  International boycott determinations.

 

Which Part applies to the domestic income of a U. S. Citizen ?  Furthermore, the Code of Federal Regulations, at 1.861- 8(a), states:

 

"...The rules contained in this section apply in determining taxable income of the taxpayer from specific sources and activities under other sections of the Code referred to in this section as operative sections. See paragraph (f)(1) of this section for a list and description of operative sections." (Emphasis added)

 

The Federal Regulations make reference to 'sources' within the United States . These are the only sources listed from which income must derive in order for it to be taxable for the purpose of the Income Tax.   Paragraph (f)(1), mentioned above, states:

                                      

Code of Federal Regulations 1.861-8(f)(1)

 

     (i) Overall limitation to the foreign tax credit.

     (ii) [Reserved]

     (iii) DISC and FSC taxable income.

     (iv) Effectively connected taxable income. Nonresident alien individuals and foreign

            corporations engaged in trade or business within the U.S.

     (v) Foreign base company income.

     (vi) Other operative sections.

     (A) ...foreign source items of tax...

     (B) ...foreign mineral income...

     (C) [Reserved]

     (D) "...foreign oil and gas extraction income..."

     (E) "...citizens entitled to the benefits of section 931 and the section 936 tax

                                                               credit..."

     (F) "...residents of Puerto Rico..."

     (G) "...income tax liability incurred to the Virgin Islands..."

     (H) "...income derived from Guam..."

     (I) "...China Trade Act corporations..."

     (J) "...income of a controlled foreign corporation..."

     (K) "...income from the insurance of U.S. risks..."

     (L) "...international boycott factor...attributable taxes and income under section

                           999..."

     (M) "...income attributable to the operation of a agreement vessel

     under section 607 of the Merchant Marine Act of 1936..."

 

This is very important in light of the fact that the U.S. Supreme Court has determined that the Congress acts intentionally and purposely in the inclusion or exclusion of something in a law. Or simply, if a particular source is not on the list, it is effectively 'excluded' from 'Gross Income'.   There are no other “OPERATIVE” sections.

 

The above list/regulation can be described merely as a fence, the Secretary was given the task to encircle  and delineate the only area from which 'Gross Income' and hence 'taxable income' can be derived or accepted from.  The above list is in fact the only definition of 'sources' anywhere in the regulations.   'Whatever' is within the fence is 'allowed' to be listed as 'Gross Income'.   If it is not within the confines of the Secretary's 'fence' or 'regulation', it is 'exempt'.   Some with a  vested interest in your money, will argue that the word 'whatever' in the 16th Amendment means 'any and all'... yes, we AGREE that it does.. 'any and all 'sources'.    The Secretary has defined them, then Congress agreed with the Secretary.   And they are restricted to the above list as it is the only list which defines sources.  A list for Citizens with domestic income does not exist!  Remember that the power of the Congress is limited and so are it's laws.

 

Let's put it still another way...

 

     It is not always what is in a law that is important. Sometimes what is not stated in a law is also equally important.   Especially if you're assuming something is in a law, when it clearly is not.

 

     1.) Section 61 states that income from 'sources' is gross income, which is taxable.

     2.) Section 861 lists the 'sources' from within and without the U.S.

     3.) Section 862 lists 'sources' that are only foreign.

 

Where is the section of law showing the U.S. domestic 'sources' ?    It doesn't exist anywhere in the law.   In good faith, let's take a look at Section 861. When you examine Sectio 861's regulations, you find the admission in 1.861-8 (a)(4), that income must come from a specific source to be taxable. If you examine the sources in 1.861-8 (f)(1), you will find that the domestic sources are only applicable to non-resident aliens and foreign  corporations. The others listed are foreign sources that U.S. citizens would definitely be taxed upon

 

The four sources listed in (f)(1) are again repeated as non-exempt income pursuant to 26 CFR section 1.861-8 (T)(d)(2)(iii). And pursuant to 1.861-8 (T)(d)(2), all income that is exempt, excluded (not listed), or that is eliminated from the law, is exempt income.

 

The only remaining question is, why is it that the IRS believes that they can  render an Act of Congress, The Paperwork Reduction Act of 1980, superfluous and of no legal effect, when we point out that the only form required to be filed pursuant to section 1.1-1 of the Code is the 2555 foreign earned income form ?   Especially when they try to pass off this section of Code as the law taxing all U.S. citizens on their income from taxable sources.

 

            AND THEY (the sources) ARE NOT THE ACTUAL ITEMS INCLUDED.  You can see that the definition of gross income has been written to deceptively appear to include all of these, but, I would like you to remember that in 1895 the Supreme Court ruled in Pollock v Farmers Loan & Trust Co.  that it is unconstitutional to impose an income tax on the interest and dividends of U.S. Citizens on deposit in U.S. banks.   Both of those items are listed here in section 61.   Interest is number (4) and Dividends is number (7).   And the Supreme Court further ruled in Stanton v Baltic Mining Co. in 1916, that no new power of taxation was conferred by the 16th Amendment.  

 

            So, if it was unconstitutional before the 16th Amendment, and no new power was conferred by it; How can Section 61 be constitutional when it states that interest and dividends are part of gross income and will be taxed ?   Well, we have to look at what the law shows for how Section 61 is supposed to be implemented and applied.  

 

            This version of  Section 61 that is shown above is from the current 1986 version of the Code.  The previous version of the Code is from 1954.   This Section, 61, is nearly identical in both versions, except for the following footnote shown in the 1954 version:

 

            "Source: Sec. 22(a), 1939 Code, substantially unchanged"

 

For some reason the footnote was dropped when the law was recodified in 1986.   It is not known why the footnote was dropped in 1986, but it is very important because, as you can see, the footnote identifies the source of  Section 61 as being Section 22(a) in the 1939 code, the last codified version previous to the 1954 version.   Being able to research the source of a law is very important to determining how that law is supposed to be properly applied under the law.  Without a review of the source materials it is very difficult to accurately determine how a law was originally intended to be applied, and the courts, of course, only have authority over the law, under, and to the extent of,  its original intent.   So we go to Section 22(a) in the 1939 code, and we see that the format has changed, but indeed, the substance  is pretty much the same as in 1986.

 

SEC. 22 GROSS INCOME.

 

(a) General Definition.-"Gross Income" includes gains, profits, and income derived from salaries, wages, or compensation for personal service ... of whatever kind and in whatever form paid, or from professions, vocations, trades, businesses commerce or sales, or dealings in property, whether real or personal, growing out of the ownership or use of or interest in such property; also from interest, rent, dividends, securities, or the transaction of any business carried on for gain or profit, or gains or profits and income derived from any source whatever....

 

            But in order to understand how Section 61 is supposed to be applied today, it is very important to know and understand how Section 22 was implemented and applied in 1939,.  The two sections are inextricably linked in such relevant fashion, and the answer to our question of how Section 61 can be Constitutional, given the Pollock decision, can only be found by a thorough examination of this relationship.

 

            If we go back to the 1918 statutes we can examine the origins of Section 22, which are found in Section 213, which states:

 

Sec. 213.  That for purposes of this title....the term “gross income” -

(a) includes gains, profits, and income derived from salaries, wages or compensation for personal service (including in the case of  the President of the United States, the judges of the Supreme and inferior courts of the United States, and all other officers and employees, whether elected or appointed, of the United States, Alaska, Hawaii, or any political subdivision thereof, or the District of Columbia , the compensation received as such), of whatever kind and in whatever form paid, or from professions, vocations, trades, businesses, commerce, sales, or dealings in property, whether real or personal, growing out of the ownership or use of or interest in such property; also from interest, rent, dividends, securities, or the transaction of any business carried on for gain or profit, or gains or profits and income derived from any source whatever. ...

(emphasis added)

 

And further insight can be gained from a review of Section 931 from the 1954 Code.  It states:

 

Sec 931. Income from sources within possessions of the United States.

 

(a) General rule. In the case of individual Citizens of the United States, gross income means only gross income from sources within the United States if the conditions of both paragraph (1) and paragraph (2) are satisfied:

(1) 3-year period. If 80 percent or more of the gross income of such Citizen... was derived from sources within a possession of the United States; and

(2) Trade or business.  If 50 percent or more of his gross income ... was derived from the active conduct of a trade or business within a possession of the United States either on his own account or as an employee or agent of another.

...

(h) Employees of the United States.  For purposes of this section amount paid for services performed by a Citizen of the United States as an employee of the United States or any agency thereof shall be deemed to be derived from sources within the United States. (emphasis added)

 

            You will notice that Congress is making reference to the gross income WHERE THE U.S. GOVERNMENT (UNITED STATES) IS THE SOURCE of that income, or where it is the “sovereign” authority (possessions).  ALSO CAREFULLY NOTE THAT THIS SECTION REVEALS THAT THE TERM “UNITED STATES”, in the  I.R. Code, MEANS THE “U.S. GOVERNMENT”, NOT THE NATION OR THE WHOLE COUNTRYTHIS IS VERY IMPORTANT.   It indicates that where the phrase “within the United States” or “without the United States” is used, it is NOT being used in the geographical sense (deceptively), BUT IS BEING USED TO INDICATE THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT as the (ONLY) lawfully affected “source” of the income !   Now go back and reread again everything to this point with that understanding and see if this doesn’t all begin to make REAL sense, as never before !

 

            BECAUSE they (the U.S. government) ONLY have AUTHORITY over their OWN AFFAIRS (their employment contracts).  They DO NOT HAVE AUTHORITY over PRIVATE contracts in “foreign countries” without tax treaties, or over private contracts in the 50 states.  So lets investigate that.  

 

(Notice how the definition of “gross income” has been vaguely re-written with each new “codification” of the law, so that without researching its history, it is virtually impossible to determine from today’s statute (61) that there is a limitation to FEDERAL SOURCES inherent in the definition of “gross income” THIS IS IRS HUMBUG)

 

            Furthermore, as you can see in the following table, shown here from the Code of Federal Regulations, Index of Parallel Tables - 1991 enabling regulations for the 1939 code sections, it clearly shows that Section 22, under the 1939 code, was implemented under Title 26, Part 519.

 

CFR INDEX PARALLEL TABLE

1991 Enabling sections

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26 U.S.C. (1939 I.R.C.)

     22 ........................................... 26 Part 519

     40 ........................................... 26 Part 1

     62 ............................................26 Parts 509,513,514,520,521

     143-144 .................................. 26 Part 521

      ....

The next table reveals what Part 519 is:

 

  CHAPTER 1 - INTERNAL REVENUE SERVICE

         DEPARTMENT OF THE TREASURY

                    (Parts 500 to 529)

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SUBCHAPTER G - Regulations Under Tax Conventions

Part

500  [Reserved]

501 Australia ..........................

502 Greece ............................(x)

503 Germany .........................(x)

504 Belgium ...........................

505 Netherlands ....................

506 Japan ...............................

507 United Kingdom .............

509 Switzerland .....................(x)

510 Norway ............................

511 Finland ...........................

512 Italy .................................

513 Ireland.............................(x)

514 France ............................(x)

515 Honduras .....................

516 Austria ............................(x)

517 Pakistan ..........................(x)

518 New Zealand ..................

519 Canada ........................

520 Sweden ...........................(x)

521 Denmark..........................(x)

 

            Part 519 is the Canadian Tax Treaty.  What Section 61 actually defines (through the inherited limitation of Section 22), under the letter of the law; are the sources of taxable income under the foreign tax treaty with Canada.  It does not define the domestic sources of taxable income.  It defines the Canadian sources, under the Canadian Tax Treaty.

 

            The countries shown in the table with an '...(x)' (ed.'s addition) are the countries with whom America has current tax treaties, in effect today (1996).   However, since the Canadian Tax Treaty expired in 1993, Part 519 is now shown as reserved for future use in this Table, and Section 61 no longer has any legitimate application within Title 26 (IR Code) for the purpose of defining what gross income is (except, perhaps, under other tax treaties and for Federal employees subject to the “kickback” on Federal “wages” under Chapter 24).

 

            But, most Citizens are ignorant of the law, they’re ignorant of the application of the law, they’re ignorant of the history of the law and these Court rulings, and the IRS relies on and takes advantage of that ignorance.  The IRS  relies on your ignorance, and your wrongfully self assessing the tax by using the wrong form.  And legitimately, under the law, that’s not the way the law is actually applied, nor was it ever intended to be applied in such fashion.

 

            Now the word “income” is not defined by itself anywhere in the Internal Revenue Code, so what has the Supreme Court said about the definition of the  word/term “income” alone ?

 

“The word (income) must be given the same meaning in all of the Income Tax Acts of Congress that was given to it in the Corporation Excise Tax Act (of 1909)” [Merchant’s Loan and Trust Co. v. Smietanka, 255 US 509 (at pp. 518 & 519)]

 

“Whatever difficulty there may be about a precise and scientific definition of ‘income’ it imports, as used here...the idea of gain or increase arising from corporate activities...[Doyle v. Mitchell, 247 US 179]

 

“Certainly the term ‘income’ has no broader meaning in the 1913 Act than in that of 1909” [Straton’s Independence v. Howbert, 231 US 399, 416, 417]

 

“...we assume that there is no difference in its meaning as used in the two Acts.” [Southern Pacific Co. v. John Z. Lowe, Jr., 247 US 330, 335]

 

For purposes of this book income is taken to mean

 

             “gain or profit on capitol or labor, or a combination of both”.

 

ENFORCEMENT

POSITIVE LAW

            All of the laws of the United States have been codified into what is called the United States Code (USC).  There are 50 Titles within the Code.  The Titles that have been passed into what is known as "positive" law, are the Law of the nation, and can be legitimately used as "evidence" of statutory violations that result in formal "charges" against persons in our society.  This can be seen to be true if one reviews Title 1 USC Section 204, which states:

 

§ 204. Codes and supplements as evidence of the laws of United States and District of Columbia; citation of Codes and supplements.

(a) United States Code... Provided, however that whenever titles of such Code shall have been enacted into positive law the text thereof shall be legal evidence of the laws therein contained, in all courts of the United States, the several states, and the territories and insular possessions of the United States.  (emphasis added)

 

            Each Title that has been passed into  positive law records and indicates such passage within the Title itself.   The 50 Titles (Positive Titles with *) and their Subjects are listed on the next page.

 

The Fifty Titles

 

*   Title 1   General Provisions                            *  Title 28 Judiciary and Judicial Procedure

     Title 2   The Congress                                      Title 29 Labor

 *  Title 3   The President                                       Title 30 Mineral Lands and Mining

 *  Title 4   Flag and Seal, Seat Of                      *  Title 31 Money and Finance

                  Government, and the States             *  Title 32 National Guard

 *  Title 5   Government Organization and               Title 33 Navigation and Navigable

                   Employees                                                     Waters

     Title 6   Surety Bonds (repealed-Title 31)           Title 34 Navy (repealed-Title 10)

     Title 7   Agriculture                                                  *  Title 35 Patents

     Title 8   Aliens and Nationality                           Title 36 Patriotic Societies and

 *  Title 9   Arbitration                                                       Observances

 *  Title 10 Armed Forces                                  *  Title 37 Pay and Allowances Of the

 *  Title 11 Bankruptcy                                                                  Uniformed Services

     Title 12 Banks and Banking                           *  Title 38 Veterans' Benefits

 *  Title 13 Census                                             *  Title 39 Postal Service

 *  Title 14 Coast Guard                                         Title 40 Public Buildings, Property, and

     Title 15 Commerce and Trade                                        Works

     Title 16 Conservation                                        Title 41 Public Contracts

 *