Do you pay taxes and file ?

Question

this shows taxes are not a law to be paid. you do pay state if you are required to pay federal, but there is no law to pay federal taxes. i find it hard to believe wesley snipes sits in jail for something NOT illegal.

here is my proof for you doubters...

http://www.surfthechannel.com/show/documentaries/America:_Freedom_to_Fascism.html

click the title beside the 3 ???

Answer 1

All those "we are not required to pay taxes people" end of in jail.

You are drinking the koolaide

Hint:  Don't drop the soap in the shower.

I have followed these cases for years going back to the 60's.  The courts ALWAYS uphold the income tax laws, and the cheats always go to jail.

Answer 2

Constitutional amendment requires you to pay. Try your "Logic" on the IRS; you can tell us all about it from your "I went to Prison for Tax Evasion" blog.

clueless; I'm betting you file and pay as well.

Answer 3

It is not against the law to not pay your taxes, but it is against the law to not file a tax return.

Answer 4

The movie "Freedom to Fascism" is inaccurate, conspiracy theory nonsense.I suggest you go to http://evans-legal.com/dan/tpfaq.html and lookup almost every point in the film. I also recommend that you try and verify different quotes from the film from RELIABLE websites.

Article 1 Section 8 of the U.S. Constitution states, in part, "The Congress shall have Power To lay and collect Taxes, Duties, Imposts and Excises,..."

Income taxes are legal under the Constitution because income taxes are INDIRECT taxes in a Constitutional sense. In HYLTON v. U S, 3 U.S. 171 (1796), a Supreme Court that included at least two of the original framers of the Constitution, Justice Samuel Chase stated, "...the direct taxes contemplated by the Constitution, are only two, to wit, a capitation, or poll tax, simply, without regard to property, profession, or any other circumstance; and a tax on LAND."

In 1861, the first income tax law in the U.S. was passed. In Springer v. United States, 102 U.S. 586 (1880) (A Supreme Court case), the court had to consider whether an income tax on an individual was constitutional. The court stated, "Our conclusions are, that direct taxes, within the meaning of the Constitution, are only capitation taxes, as expressed in that instrument, and taxes on real estate; and that the tax of which the plaintiff in error complains is within the category of an excise or duty." Springer was the plaintiff in error. The Supreme Court upheld the constitutionality of the income tax law that was in effect in 1865.

After the ratification of the 16th amendment, the Supreme Court in STANTON v. BALTIC MINING CO, 240 U.S. 103 (1916) stated, "...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..."

BTW, the Bureau of Internal Revenue, which later became the IRS, was established in 1862.

The current income tax laws are codified as Title 26 of the U.S. Code.  You can read it at http://uscode.house.gov/download/title_2...

To read the actual laws passed by Congress and signed by a President, you have to go to the U.S. Statutes at Large.  For the most part, these are not available online.  However, you can read them in most Federal Depository Libraries and most law libraries.  Go to Volume 68A, starting on page 3 to read the Internal Revenue Act of 1954.  Then go to Volume 100, starting on page 2085 to read the Tax Reform Act of 1986.  Those two laws form the basic structure of the current income tax laws.  Various acts passed in the years since have modified those two laws to give us the current state of the income tax laws.

The book, "The Law that Never Was" by Bill Benson has been completed refuted. Also, no court has EVER accepted any of the arguments brought forth in that book. Here is a court case that discussed the book. In U.S. v. Thomas, 788 F.2d 1250 (7th Cir. 1986), cert. den. 107 S.Ct. 187 (1986).

You can read it at http://bulk.resource.org/courts.gov/c/F2...

Especially read paragraphs 4 through 6.

Judge Fox's statement was in the context of giving an example. He was not making a statement of fact. The comments made by Judge Fox were made in passing, without judicial review, and in a case that had nothing to do with the 16th amendment. In the end, the Judge also said that he didn't think any court would ever set it aside.

The Federal Reserve act was properly passed by Congress and does not require a Constitutional amendment. While the Federal Reserve Act was passed on Dec. 23, 1913, according to the Congressional record, the bill passed the house by a count of 298 to 60. 358 members voted out of 435, that's pretty good attendance. That's probably better attendance than the current House of Representative gets on most days. The Senate passed the bill with a vote of 43 to 25. That's 68 members voted out of 96. Again, that is good attendance.

The quote by Woodrow Wilson that the film says he made in 1919 is false. First, there is no record anywhere that Woodrow Wilson said the first part of that quote. The rest of the quote is taken from Woodrow Wilson's book, "The New Freedom". However, "The New Freedom" was published in 1913! Also, the book is actually a compilation of speeches he made on the campaign trail during 1911 and 1912. He was really discussing corporate monopolies and not the Federal Reserve (which didn't exist yet) or the banks. You can read "The New Freedom" for yourself at http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/14811

The Federal Reserve is independently audited every year. Those audits and more are part of the Federal Reserve annual report to Congress.

http://www.federalreserve.gov/boarddocs/...

http://www.federalreserve.gov/boarddocs/...

Look at all I have written refuting many points in the movie, "Freedom to Fascism" and that's only the first five minutes of it.

There are many more quotes in the movie that are taken completely out of context and there are many claims in the movie that are just plain wrong.

Sherry Peel Jackson, one of the people interviewed in the movie was tried for willful failure to file and tax evasion on Oct. 29 and 30, 2007. GUILTY on all counts. She was sentenced to four years in prison and SHE STILL HAS TO PAY HER TAXES.

A few people have successfully beaten criminal charges, but that doesn't mean there isn't a law any more than O.J. Simpson's acquittal means there isn't a law concerning the murder of your ex-wife.  In fact, and this is important, in order to be charged with breaking a law, THERE HAS TO BE A LAW TO BE BROKEN!

To summarize, there is a law concerning income taxes, it is Title 26 U.S.C. If you earn more than the standard deduction, you must file tax returns. Wages from a job are income. Income is NOT limited to corporate profits. The Federal Reserve is not some great conspiracy. etc. etc.

Answer 5

http://frwebgate.access.gpo.gov/cgi-bin/...

This is Title 26 to the UNITED STATES CODE.  IT IS FEDERAL LAW.  THE ENTIRE TITLE 26 OF THE UNITED STATES CODE IS FOR PAYING OF AND COLLECTING OF INCOME TAXES.  IT IS LAW, FEDERAL LAW.

Answer 6

You, my dear, are a victim of false information distributed by a few disgruntled individuals.

If you think it's illegal, stop paying your taxes to any taxing authority and see what happens.

Answer 7

You are required to pay taxes if you live in the United States and make over the minimum deduction. I have no clue where you are getting your facts, but they are wrong.

Answer 8

i went to the link and it didn't work.

anyway, if it weren't a law, then why woudl people get in trouble for it and have to pay fines and do jail time?

don'ty pay your taxes.  let us know how it works out for ya.  but i'm sure we'll already know.  

Answer 9

okay - keep on NOT paying taxes....let us know in a few years how that works out for you

Answer 10

you use government services every day. You should pay taxes to support those servives

Answer 11

Leave your fantasy world and come back to real life.