Over the last few days I spent hours going through some websites such as lostHorizon.com, and I must admit that Pete Hendrickson has done a phenomenal job in the history of the income tax, as well as, family guardian’s website. However, with the information that I’ve been learning from Dave Myrland over the past few years, I sit here asking,
do I really need to know all this information? My answer is no! Here’s why, below is taken right off of the IRS website. |
Provide America's taxpayers [America’s taxpayer does not imply that Americans are taxpayers] top quality service by helping them understand and meet their tax responsibilities and enforce the law with integrity and fairness to all. This mission statement
describes our role and the public’s expectation about how we should perform that role. - In the United States, the Congress passes tax laws and requires taxpayers to comply.
- The taxpayer’s role is to understand and meet his or her tax obligations.
- The IRS role is to help the large majority of compliant taxpayers with the tax law, while
ensuring that the minority who are unwilling to comply pay their fair share.
In 1913, Wyoming ratified the 16th Amendment, providing the three-quarter majority of states necessary to amend the Constitution. The 16th Amendment gave
Congress the authority to enact an income tax. That same year, the first Form 1040 appeared after Congress levied a 1 percent tax on net personal incomes above $3,000 with a 6 percent surtax on incomes of more than $500,000. As you can see the IRS confirms that the people had delegated Congress, and no one else, to lay and collect taxes among the several states. "The Congress shall have power to lay and collect taxes on incomes, from whatever source derived, without apportionment among the several states, and without regard to any census or enumeration." 16th Amdt. So as you can see from the above statements, only Congress has power to lay and collect taxes; there is no question that the IRS understands that Congress makes the laws (statutes) and since they admit and confirm that Congress is the only one that excludes the executive branch, including, but not limited to an IRS agent naming me subject and liable to a tax where Congress has failed to do so. This summary in this portion is, why do I need to learn the history of the income tax and all what the court cases say to argue if I owe a tax or not when the income tax does not even apply to me? I have an absolute right to be informed, which is a common law right, which the IRS has put it in their “TAXPAYER BILL OF RIGHTS” The Right to Be
Informed
Taxpayers have the right to know what they need to do to comply with the tax laws. They are entitled to clear explanations of the laws and IRS procedures in all tax forms, instructions, publications, notices, and correspondence. They have the right to be informed of IRS decisions
about their tax accounts and to receive clear explanations of the outcomes. In the paragraph above in the 2nd sentence, in part, is what I need to be answered
1st before I can go to procedures, forms, instructions, publications, and any other notices. “They are entitled to clear explanation of the laws... Since I’m entitled to a clear explanation of the laws, would that be the laws that
Congress wrote? Are there any other source of law, other than Congress, that I should be aware of?
Wait I have more questions, although you won't answer them. I don't what to do or how to comply with the tax laws untill you do! |
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