Where is the law that makes one liable for the federal income tax? Is it in the IRS code?

Question

came across this site when researching:
http://www.givemeliberty.org/

they've ask the IRS and Congress to show the law and have offered a $50,000 reward to anyone that can show the law.

where's the law?

Answer 1

It's 16th Amendment.

The United States imposes an income tax on individuals and corporations. This tax is levied from the happening of an event, such as the payment of a wage or the purchase of property - the appreciation on the value of property, for example, is not taxed until that property is sold. The U.S. income tax was first imposed during the Civil War, but was not used from after the Civil War until the 16th Amendment was ratified in 1913 giving Congress the right to tax income.

Answer 2

Here we go again. First, if this were the case, I wouldn't tell you where the law is. If I knew, I'd get the $50K myself. But that's not the issue, anyway. The issue is that people like the site you mention believe, erroneously, that the income tax is "voluntary." Whatever law you show them will be interpreted (by them) differently than, oh, say, the court system interprets it.

Repeat after me: The income tax is not optional. We participate voluntarily, which in this sense means that there is not a gun to our head while we fill in the forms. However, we *DO* fill in the forms, and we do so honestly, so we don't go to jail.

Answer 3

You could rub some folks' noses in it and they would swear it doesn't exist. The law is indeed found in the Internal Revenue Code, among other places, and the evidence for it is the tax protesters sitting in Federal prison for noncompliance. Anybody can pretend not to see what is in front of their faces, but ultimately the law is what the courts and law enforcement agencies say it is, and there should be no doubt in anyone's mind by that standard that the requirement to pay taxes is alive and well.

Answer 4

Many convicts ask the same questions.