The 16th Amendment to the Constitution clarified the power of Congress to levy an income tax.
Title 26 of the U.S. Code is the LAW that requires that individuals pay income tax. Specifically, TITLE 26, Subtitle A, CHAPTER 1, Subchapter A, PART I, § 1.
The last person who asked a question about the Browns said the above wasn't law. He is mistaken. The U.S. Code IS law. That person said the Brown's had $1,000,000 in real estate for the person who could show the law. So, now I'm owed $1,000,000 in real estate and $300,000. BTW, I am fully prepared to pay income taxes on the transaction as long as the rest of the transaction is legal.
See the following website for discussions on the foolishness of tax protestors. http://www.quatloos.com/taxscams/taxprot.htm
Edit: To the two tax protestor people farther down the answer list. I'm leaving out the tables that are included in this section for the purpose of brevity.
TITLE 26 > Subtitle A > CHAPTER 1 > Subchapter A > PART I > § 1
§ 1. Tax imposed
(a) Married individuals filing joint returns and surviving spouses
There is hereby imposed on the taxable income ofâ€"
(1) every married individual (as defined in section 7703) who makes a single return jointly with his spouse under section 6013, and
(2) every surviving spouse (as defined in section 2 (a)),
a tax determined in accordance with the following table:
(b) Heads of households
There is hereby imposed on the taxable income of every head of a household (as defined in section 2 (b)) a tax determined in accordance with the following table:
(c) Unmarried individuals (other than surviving spouses and heads of households)
There is hereby imposed on the taxable income of every individual (other than a surviving spouse as defined in section 2 (a) or the head of a household as defined in section 2 (b)) who is not a married individual (as defined in section 7703) a tax determined in accordance with the following table:
(d) Married individuals filing separate returns
There is hereby imposed on the taxable income of every married individual (as defined in section 7703) who does not make a single return jointly with his spouse under section 6013, a tax determined in accordance with the following table:
and so on.
The phrase "There is hereby imposed on the taxable income..." can't be any clearer than that.
Stop your search immediately. The various Supreme Courts of the United States have repeatedly ruled that the federal income tax system is legal. Is there a statute on the books as such ? Perhaps not, but decisions from the highest court in the land have the same legal weight as any statute has.
If there were any legal basis to the current federal tax system being illegal, millions of folks would have ceased payment decades ago.
It was the 16th amendment to the Constitution, upon which our laws are based.
Even if there wasn't a law that says you have to pay federal income tax, so what? Does the federal income tax hurt you so much that you would give up your education, law enforcement, military, health care, constitutional rights, due process, and infrastructure just so you didn't have to pay income taxes?
Ask Al Capone, and Willie Nelson, they'll tell ya!
Title 26 - Internal Revenue Code
The only reason the Brown's aren't in jail is that the feds do not want another "Waco" and are taking a wait and see approach.
Ed Brown is a complete wack-job. He denies even that the court has any authority over him.
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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), 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.....
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Rewards have been offered by lots of Citizens and not one has been claimed. There is no Law, Statute or Regulation that requires State Citizens to pay a Federal Tax. I've read each and every line in the INCOME TAX CODE and I didn't see anything that would require me to pay a Federal Tax. Take a Stand. Don't Pay Federal Tax
this is an old battle, and it's ridiculous....
the U.S. Constitution, as originally written, did not authorize the Federal government to tax us on variable factors such as our income.
We literally had to amend the Constitution to permit the Federal government to income tax us as they now do. In 1913, more than two-thirds of the States and Congress voted into law the Sixteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution. The Sixteenth Amendment authorizes the Federal government to tax "income from any source derived." In light of the incredibly broad breath of the Sixteenth Amendment (that we were stupid enough as a people to authorize), it is hard to give any credence to tax protester groups who claim the income tax is unconstitutional.
Incidentally, a fascinating footnote to this discussion is the fact that the promoters of the Sixteenth Amendment got it through the state ratification process with the following "class envy" pitch: the Federal income tax will only tax the extremely rich and not the middle-class. As always happens, this "nail the rich guys" angle has backfired on the common man and woman with the result that the original 1913 income tax has grown from 9 to over 7,000 pages of statutory law and has significantly gotten into the back pockets of a majority of Americans.
There are scores of tax cases further confirming the constitutionality of the income tax. The Courts have been very harsh with the illegal tax avoiders and have readily doled out heavy civil and criminal penalties. If you don't like the income tax the way it is, your only legal recourse is to vote for Congressional representatives and a President who will be serious about tax simplification and who will ultimately "rip the income tax code out by its roots."
Unfortunately, in order to accomplish the last-quoted goal of the influential (now retired) Texas Congressman Bill Archer, we would have to repeal the Sixteenth Amendment-not an easy task in modern America.
Sure, happy to: Title 26 of the US Code. Here's a link: http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/html/uscode26/usc_sup_01_26.html
Anyone who claims that there is no written law regarding income taxes is either a fool or an idiot. Take your pick.
There's at least one clown who said he'd pay $1 million for proof. It's been proven to him thousands of times yet he still insists that he's right and everyone else is wrong. He's in prison for tax evasion, by the way, and couldn't pay the "reward" even if he wanted to. So, he's both an idiot AND a liar.
listen it is a fraud you can not find an actual written law that require's anyone to pay a federal income tax,if you can find one please show us.it is not a belief lol !
The nation had few taxes in its early history. From 1791 to 1802, the United States government was supported by internal taxes on distilled spirits, carriages, refined sugar, tobacco and snuff, property sold at auction, corporate bonds, and slaves. The high cost of the War of 1812 brought about the nation's first sales taxes on gold, silverware, jewelry, and watches. In 1817, however, Congress did away with all internal taxes, relying on tariffs on imported goods to provide sufficient funds for running the government.
In 1862, in order to support the Civil War effort, Congress enacted the nation's first income tax law. It was a forerunner of our modern income tax in that it was based on the principles of graduated, or progressive, taxation and of withholding income at the source. During the Civil War, a person earning from $600 to $10,000 per year paid tax at the rate of 3%. Those with incomes of more than $10,000 paid taxes at a higher rate. Additional sales and excise taxes were added, and an “inheritance†tax also made its debut. In 1866, internal revenue collections reached their highest point in the nation's 90-year historyâ€"more than $310 million, an amount not reached again until 1911.
The Act of 1862 established the office of Commissioner of Internal Revenue. The Commissioner was given the power to assess, levy, and collect taxes, and the right to enforce the tax laws through seizure of property and income and through prosecution. The powers and authority remain very much the same today.
In 1868, Congress again focused its taxation efforts on tobacco and distilled spirits and eliminated the income tax in 1872. It had a short-lived revival in 1894 and 1895. In the latter year, the U.S. Supreme Court decided that the income tax was unconstitutional because it was not apportioned among the states in conformity with the Constitution.
In 1913, the 16th Amendment to the Constitution made the income tax a permanent fixture in the U.S. tax system. The amendment gave Congress legal authority to tax income and resulted in a revenue law that taxed incomes of both individuals and corporations. In fiscal year 1918, annual internal revenue collections for the first time passed the billion-dollar mark, rising to $5.4 billion by 1920. With the advent of World War II, employment increased, as did tax collectionsâ€"to $7.3 billion. The withholding tax on wages was introduced in 1943 and was instrumental in increasing the number of taxpayers to 60 million and tax collections to $43 billion by 1945.
In 1981, Congress enacted the largest tax cut in U.S. history, approximately $750 billion over six years. The tax reduction, however, was partially offset by two tax acts, in 1982 and 1984, that attempted to raise approximately $265 billion.
On Oct. 22, 1986, President Reagan signed into law the Tax Reform Act of 1986, one of the most far-reaching reforms of the United States tax system since the adoption of the income tax. The top tax rate on individual income was lowered from 50% to 28%, the lowest it had been since 1916. Tax preferences were eliminated to make up most of the revenue. In an attempt to remain revenue neutral, the act called for a $120 billion increase in business taxation and a corresponding decrease in individual taxation over a five-year period.
Following what seemed to be a yearly tradition of new tax acts that began in 1986, the Revenue Reconciliation Act of 1990 was signed into law on Nov. 5, 1990. As with the '87, '88, and '89 acts, the 1990 act, while providing a number of substantive provisions, was small in comparison with the 1986 act. The emphasis of the 1990 act was increased taxes on the wealthy.
On Aug. 10, 1993, President Clinton signed the Revenue Reconciliation Act of 1993 into law. The act's purpose was to reduce by approximately $496 billion the federal deficit that would otherwise accumulate in fiscal years 1994 through 1998. In 1997, Clinton signed another tax act. The act, which cut taxes by $152 billion, included a cut in capital-gains tax for individuals, a $500 per child tax credit, and tax incentives for education.
President George W. Bush signed a series of tax cuts into law. The largest was the Economic Growth and Tax Relief Reconciliation Act of 2001. It was estimated to save taxpayers $1.3 trillion over ten years, making it the third largest tax cut since World War II. The Bush tax cut created a new lowest rate, 10% for the first several thousand dollars earned. It also established a slow schedule of incremental tax cuts that would eventually double the child tax credit from $500 to $1,000, adjust brackets so that middle-income couples owed the same tax as comparable singles, cut the top four tax rates (28% to 25%; 31% to 28%; 36% to 33%; and 39.6% to 35%).
The Jobs and Growth Tax Relief and Reconciliation Act of 2003 accelerated the tax rate cuts that had been enacted in 2001, and temporarily reduced the tax rate on capital gains and dividends to 15%. In 2004, the U.S. was forced to eliminate a corporate tax provision that had been ruled illegal by the World Trade Organization. Along with that tax hike, Congress passed a cornucopia of tax breaks, which for individuals included an option to deduct the payment of whichever state taxes were higher, sales or income taxes.
Two tax bills signed in 2005 and 2006 extended through 2010 the favorable rates on capital gains and dividends that had been enacted in 2003, raised the exemption levels for the Alternative Minimum Tax, and enacted new tax incentives designed to persuade individuals to save more for retirement.
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