Disclaimer: I am not by any means advising anyone to stop paying their income tax. I am merely spreading the information and planting a seed for you to do your own research. Just because there is no law that requires a person to pay an income tax does not mean you won't be taken to court or that the IRS will not enforce the voluntary income tax.
I'd like this blog to be the start for your own research into the subject of the unlawful income tax and what this all means. With that said let's start with a group called, The Tax Honesty Movement.
From
'Inside the Tax Honesty Movement: An Interview with Dave Champion'..."BR: Tell me what the Tax Honesty Movement is all about.
DC: The Tax Honesty Movement is a name that sprung up about five years ago to describe those people who collectively want to see U.S. tax law applied and administrated honestly and in accordance with the written law. Despite the fact that the name "Tax Honesty Movement" was coined in the late 1990s, the movement has been around since the early 1950s. Computers, CD-ROMs, and the Internet have simply allowed people within the Movement to consolidate their information and communicate as never before."
The following quotes are from Arron Russo's film, America: Freedom to Fascism.
John Turner, Former IRS Agent, "I really expected, that of course there is a law that you can point to in the law book/code, that requires you to file a tax return... So naively I agreed to go off and research it... Three and a half months later, I was at that point where I couldn't find the statute that clearly made a person liable... and I had no choice in my mind except to resign."
Joe Banister, Former IRS Criminal Investigator, "I had to leave the IRS because I presented evidence that I had accumulated indicating that the agency was violating the law and violating peoples rights. I asked the agency for a response to my sincere concerns. The answer I got was that they would not respond to my concern and that they would provide me with the paperwork necessary to tenured my resignation."
Sherry Jackson, Former IRS Agent, "We The People Foundation for Constitutional Education put a full-page ad in the USA Today on July 7th, 2000. And within the body of that ad was a $50,000 challenge for anyone that could show the law... So I went after that... based on the research that I did throughout the year 2000 and that I'm still doing, I have not found that law."
We The People - USA Today AdNo one has been able to collect the $50,000 reward offered by William Conklin (
www.anti-irs.com) to anyone who can:
1) show how to file a federal income tax return without waiving one's 5th amendment rights, and
2) identify what statute in the Internal Revenue Code makes a typical worker liable to pay an income tax.
From reason.com,
'Five Reasons You Don't Owe Income Tax, Dammit!'The ..1 Reason:
The IRS declares in various documents that the income tax is "voluntary." And in Flora v. U.S. (1960), the Supreme Court announced, "Our system of taxation is based upon voluntary assessment and payment."
Some of you read this and think, well I want to pay income tax because that money pays for schools and our highways, etc...
Education is paid for by local property taxes. The tax on gasoline pays for America's highways. After interests payments and government waste, not one penny collected from the tax on your labors pays for the services you expect from the government.
Bob Schulz, We the People Foundation, "The amount of money that we spend on defense is exactly equal to the amount of corporate income tax, which is quite legal and quite constitutional."
In 2005 the legal corporate income tax collected was $278.3 billion. The illegal tax on our labor collected was $927.2 billion.
Catherine Austim Fitts, Former Asst. Secretary of Housing, "In fiscal '99 the Department of Defense had 1.1 trillion of undocumentable adjustments. The following year they had 2.3 trillion of undocumentable adjustments."
Undocumentable adjustments means the money is missing.
In a letter to Tom Selgas of the Tax Honesty Movement, Daniel Inouyes of the Unite States Senate wrote, "Based on research performed by the Congressional Research Service, there is no provisions which specifically and unequivocally require an individual to pay an income tax."
Research this on your own. Talk to others about it. Become informed. Make a decision.
More and more unsettling truths are beginning to surface and it is our duty as human beings to learn from this information and act accordingly. The only thing worse than not knowing, is knowing and doing nothing.
For more information on 'America: Freedom to Fascism' visit the site.
www.freedomtofascism.comYou can also watch the entire movie on Google Video.
Watch it now.