Where is there a law stateing u have to pay income taxes?

Question

it says they could tax workers ,but there is no law that states u have to pay

Answer 1

Check with Wesley Snipes (actor) he saw the same crappy movie too.  Wesley just started his 3 year prison sentence and paid 5 million dollars in fines for not paying his taxes.  Plus he paid 10 years worth of legal fees trying to avoid going to jail.  Read US Code Title 26.  Very boring to read.  Pay your fair share and quit your complaining regarding this nonsense.

Answer 2

I disagree with burt.Can you tell us what the number of the statute or the court case name?.In the movie "from freedom to fascism aaron russo asks the ex-commisioner of the irs and the guy finally walks out of the room cause he cannot give him the answer.Americans did not pay federal income taxes from 1776 to 1913.The rockefellers,warburgs etc. paid off some politician to sneak it into law while most of congress were away for the christmas holidays.Woodrow wilson who signed into law that the federal reserve later regretted doing so said "I have ruined my country..no longer a govt of free opinion by the people...but by a small group of dominant men.1919.Because of these bankers we have had the fed inc. tax.The federal reserve prints the money and loans it to the american govt. at interest and we citizens get to pay it back so the govt doesn't own the money but the private bankers do.The supreme court has ruled in favor of the citizens.If you examine the 16th ammendment carefully you will find a sufficient number of states never ratified that ammendment. U.S District Court Judge James  C. Fox 2003.The irs tries to bully you even though they say its voluntary they still will &%$# with you.Theres more to this just watch the aaron russos film for starters.Ok i would like to add something on.Now from 1776 to 1913 americans didn't pay income tax right?But in 1913 and after, the income tax was ok  and the federal reserve started that year right?In the constitution it says the govt is suspose to coin its own money,but we have the federal reserve who loans the govt money with interest.So our income tax that we pay goes to a private bank.We've gone back before 1776 so as long as we pay our taxes to the kings then its ok!Didn't the federal reserve guys bribe the politicians?But **** it's the american way.

Answer 3

THINGS I DIDN'T KNOW UNTIL I SAW THEM ON THE INTERNET:

Nobody ever really landed on the moon - it was a giant hoax. What you saw on TV was filmed in Utah.

Elvis is still alive and performing marriages in Las Vegas.

It is unconstitutional for the government to tax your wages (income tax), and most of what we think of as income isn't really income anyway.

Excuse me now....I just won 2 million pounds in the online UK lottery when my email was randomly selected, and I have to go answer the email.....

Answer 4

Title 26 - Internal Revenue Code (look it up)

The people who believe that there is no income tax law are called "Tax Protesters" and, while their bizarre theories vary, they all have one thing in common; not one of them has even been victorious in court and gotten out of paying their taxes and many of them end up in prison.  If that's what you want, go for it.

Answer 5

Don't spend the extra money yet.

http://exlax.com

Answer 6

Read up on it:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internal_Re...

and quit believing in movies.  

(Sorry to be the one that tells you this but Batman really doesn't exist either.)

Answer 7

Lots of things used to be not allowed by the Constitution such as; slavery, blacks women and 18 year olds not allowed to vote.  The Consititution was ammended to allow for them.

Just FYI,

Article 1 section 8 of the constitution gives congress the power to tax.

The 16th ammendment of the Constitution specifically allows an Income Tax.

Title 26 of the US Code is the law that defines the Income tax in it's current form.

Don't you think that if taxes were really unconstitutional that the Supreme Court would have said so sometime in the last 95 years?

Answer 8

Yes, there is...It is a Federal Law, under the United States Justice Dept. that states, that all binding citizen must pay taxes.

There are more six million people now serving time in Jail for tax evation...The I.R.S. will come down on you hard, if you do not pay..!!  It is the price you pay for living in the Unites States.

Don't believe everything your read and watch, SPECIALLY through the INTERNET.

zeitgeist means Newspaper in German...In Germany you do not have to pay taxes if you do not want to

Answer 9

We can have this discussion all you want but in the end the IRS will get the taxes you owe.  This idea has been before the courts many many times and the courts have always sided with the IRS.  There is a $5,000.00 penalty for using this idea.

Answer 10

Congress created the law when the Internal Revenue Code of 1954 was passed by both houses of Congress as House Resolution 8300, and was signed by President Eisenhower on August 16, 1954, at about 9:45 a.m., becoming Public Law 83-591, 68A Stat. 3. The Internal Revenue Code is now known as the “Internal Revenue Code of 1986” as a result of changes made by Public Law 99-514, 100 Stat. 2085 (10/22/1986).

The duty to pay taxes can be found in 26 U.S.C. § 1 “There is hereby imposed on the taxable income of every individual . . . who is not a married individual a tax determined in accordance with the following table:” The code defines what is taxable income in 26 U.S.C. § 63 as “gross income minus the deductions allowed” . Gross income is defined in 26 U.S.C. § 61. It is an extensive list the most important provision is: [G]ross 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;

26 U.S.C. § 6012(a) requires you to file a tax return if you make a certain amount and 26 U.S.C. § 6151 requires you to pay a tax.

To I'll never tell. That "documentary" has already been widely discredited. The notion that the 16th amendment was not properly ratified is patently false and was best explained by Judge Easterbrook:

"1. Thomas is a tax protester, and one of his arguments is that he did not [**3]  need to file tax returns because the sixteenth amendment is not part of the constitution. It was not properly ratified, Thomas insists, repeating the argument of W. Benson & M. Beckman, The Law That Never Was (1985). Benson and Beckman review the documents concerning the states' ratification of the sixteenth amendment and conclude that only four states ratified the sixteenth amendment; they insist that the official promulgation of that amendment by Secretary of State Knox in 1913 is therefore void.

Benson and Beckman did not discover anything; they rediscovered something that Secretary Knox considered in 1913. Thirty-eight states ratified the sixteenth amendment, and thirty-seven sent formal instruments of ratification to the Secretary of State. (Minnesota notified the Secretary orally, and additional states ratified later; we consider only those Secretary Knox considered.) Only four instruments repeat the language of the sixteenth amendment exactly as Congress approved it. The others contain errors of diction, capitalization, punctuation, and spelling. The text Congress transmitted to the states was: "The Congress shall have power to lay and collect taxes on incomes, from whatever [**4]  source derived, without apportionment among the several States, and without regard to any census or enumeration." Many of the instruments neglected to capitalize "States," and some capitalized other words instead. The instrument from Illinois had "remuneration" in place of "enumeration"; the instrument from Missouri substituted "levy" for "lay"; the instrument from Washington had "income" not "incomes"; others made similar blunders.

Thomas insists that because the states did not approve exactly the same text, the amendment did not go into effect. Secretary Knox considered this argument. The Solicitor of the Department of State drew up a list of the errors in the instruments and -- taking into account both the triviality of the deviations and the treatment of earlier amendments that had experienced more substantial problems -- advised the Secretary that he was authorized to declare the amendment adopted. The Secretary did so.

Although Thomas urges us to take the view of several state courts that only agreement on the literal text may make a legal document effective, HN1the Supreme Court follows the "enrolled bill rule." If a legislative document is authenticated in regular form [**5]  by the appropriate officials, the court treats that document as properly adopted. Field v. Clark, 143 U.S. 649, 36 L. Ed. 294, 12 S. Ct. 495 (1892). The principle is equally applicable to constitutional amendments. See Leser v. Garnett, 258 U.S. 130, 66 L. Ed. 505, 42 S. Ct. 217 (1922), which treats as conclusive the declaration of the Secretary of State that the nineteenth amendment had been adopted. In United States v. Foster, 789 F.2d. 457 462-463 n.6 (7th Cir. 1986), we relied on Leser, as well as the inconsequential nature of the objections in the face of the 73-year acceptance of the effectiveness of the sixteenth amendment, to reject a claim similar to Thomas's. See also Coleman v. Miller, 307 U.S. 433, 83 L. Ed. 1385, 59 S. Ct. 972 (1939) (questions about ratification of amendments may be nonjusticiable). Secretary Knox declared that enough states had ratified the sixteenth amendment. The Secretary's decision is  [*1254]  not transparently defective. We need not decide when, if ever, such a decision may be reviewed in order to know that Secretary Knox's decision is now beyond review."

United States v. Thomas, 788 F.2d 1250, 1253-1254 (7th Cir. Ill. 1986)

Answer 11

Of all the parts in Zeitgeist, the part about Income Tax has more errors (i.e. lies) than any other part of the movie.

The assertions that there is no law is just nonsense spread by the the quixiotic and self-deluding "tax law deniers" fringe group.  In these days of Google, it is so easy to look up and refute the arguments. Those pesky tax laws they can't seem to find?

Here they are

The Income Tax laws are codified in the U.S. Code. Check out:

http://www.law.cornell.edu/wex/index.php...

http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/html/u...

http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/html/u...

http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/html/u...

http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/html/u...

http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/html/u...

The U.S. Code is derived from acts of congress. For the major acts passed by congress regarding the Federal Income Tax...

Revenue act of 1862:

http://www.reference.com/browse/wiki/Rev...

1894 Income Tax and the Wilson-Gorman Tariff Act:

http://law.enotes.com/major-acts-congres...

Revenue act of 1913:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Revenue_Act...

http://law.enotes.com/major-acts-congres...

Internal Revenue Code of 1954:

http://law.enotes.com/major-acts-congres...

http://www.reference.com/browse/wiki/Int...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internal_Re...

Tax reform act of 1986:

http://www.answers.com/topic/tax-reform-...

http://law.enotes.com/major-acts-congres...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tax_Reform_...

For analysis on their claims, check out:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tax_protest...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tax_protest...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tax_protest...

Some other views of of the film:

"There is no shortage of information which refutes this viewpoint. But this type of conspiracy relies on two elements common to web surfers: First, they're only willing to check facts at the most superficial level, which usually means they'll read a message or watch a clip just once before forming an opinion and moving on. " Ref:

http://media.wildcat.arizona.edu/media/s...

"...(a) common problem in the film: presenting something in such a shallow manner without further corroboration or scholarly evidence." - Ref:

http://gauntlet.ucalgary.ca/story/12284

For a point-by-point analysis of this part of the film, check out:

- http://webskeptic.wikidot.com/zeitgeist-...

- http://www.conspiracyscience.com/article...