Where exactly are the laws that state the income tax you must pay(United States)?

Question

Where exactly are the laws that state the income tax you must pay(United States)?

Answer 1

The basic law is Title 26 of the US Code.  Google it if you want to read it.  It's pretty dry stuff, and is about 64,000 pages.

Answer 2

i know you can go to irs.gov and get the information on federal income tax.  Maybe they can guide you in the right direction.  For laws for my state, I usually go to access.wa.gov  its the site for the state of washington, but your state may have a similar site.

Answer 3

It's in the Internal Revenue Code.  See tax rate tables.

Answer 4

Income tax laws are codified as Title 26 of the U.S. Code.  You can read it at http://www4.law.cornell.edu/uscode/uscod... or at http://www.access.gpo.gov/uscode/title26...

Being codified means that the various tax laws are all grouped together and are then written into the U.S. Code.  They are known as "prima facie" law or evidence of the actual laws passed by Congress.

To read the actual laws passed by Congress, 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 at most Federal Depository Libraries and most law libraries.  There are two laws that form the basic structure of the current income tax laws.  These are the Internal Revenue Act of 1954 and the Tax Reform Act of 1986.  Various laws passed since 1986 have modified these two laws.  The 1954 law can be found in Volume 68A starting on page 3.  The 1986 law can be found in Volume 100 starting on page 2085.  Acts of Congress modifying the tax laws will be found in later volumes.

Answer 5

Sixteenth Amendment to the Constitution of the United States and the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended.

Answer 6

The law is Title 26 of the United States code, which is authorized by the 16th amendment of the Constitution.

Don't listen to the tax kooks, a reasonable person would think that if the income tax is unconstitutional then the supreme court would have said so sometime in the last 95 years.