Why does anyone file income taxes when it's not a law to do so?

Question

Why does anyone file income taxes when it's not a law to do so?

Answer 1

Only a fool would think that there is no law that imposes an income tax.  Google Title 26 of the US Code if you'd like to read it.  All 64,000 odd pages of it.

Answer 2

Just curious???  Did you return your tax rebate?  Using YOUR logic, you shouldn't have received one since you are not required to pay taxes.

BTW, will you answer this question I asked over a year ago?  Thanks in advance.

http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index;...

Answer 3

Title 26, The U.S. Internal Revenue Code

visit IRS website for more information.

Answer 4

Title 26 section 7203 of federal law says that willful failure to pay tax is a misdemeanor punishable by up to $25,000 in fines or one year of prison, or both.

People who refuse to pay income tax can be charged with other crimes besides that, depending on the circumstances. You can end up looking at a felony conviction very easily.

Answer 5

because if we dont our bank account get frozen, our homes get taken away, our wages garnished, we get arrested and put in jail..that's why.

do you have a way to not suffer those consequences for not paying the "illegal income tax?"

Answer 6

Why do people keep posting this nonsense.

Answer 7

Don't file and the tax man will come! And you won't enjoy the visit. Been there, done that!!!

Answer 8

· 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 marriage ceremonies in Las Vegas.

It is unconstitutional for the government to tax your wages (income tax), the 16th amendment was never ratified, 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 9

The allegation there is no income tax law is a long-disproven myth propagated by far fringe web sites and conspiracy films like Zeitgeist and Freedom to Fascism.

Unfortunately the myth endures because there is money to be made by con artists using these arguments to get gullible people to pay up trying to avoid the law.

It can be  easily disproved with just a little Googling.

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_...

Answer 10

(*groan*) Not this tired old garbage again!

Title 26, The U.S. Internal Revenue Code, *IS* the law. Anyone who says it's not is either misinformed or trolling.

Such people are perfectly welcome to refuse to pay their taxes. They'll eventually wind up with their room and board paid for by those who *do* pay their taxes, when they're sent to federal prison for tax evasion. (Maybe they'll get to meet Wesley Snipes while they're there!)