Does Anyone Konw the Law that Mandates citizens Pay Income Tax?

Question

I am not talking about filing, but the exact reference to the law that mandates citizens pay the IRS income tax. I found that in 1936 a supreme court judge deemed the tax illegal, and that there has not been a ruling over-riding this.

Answer 1

I'm not sure what 1936 decision your quoting, but this argument arises frequently in tax avoidance schemes. Recently a couple of the highest profile tax protesters went to jail for failing to file and pay their taxes. The IRS has a list of common tax protests and their responses. Some are quite creative and entertaining. If filing and paying income tax was illegal, accepting government payments would make us accessories to a crime.

Answer 2

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/16th_Amendment_to_the_United_States_Constitution#Ratification_process

"n Commissioner v. Glenshaw Glass Co.,[13] the Supreme Court laid out what has become the modern understanding of what constitutes 'income' to which the Sixteenth Amendment applies, declaring that income taxes could be levied on "accessions to wealth, clearly realized, and over which the taxpayers have complete dominion." Under this definition, any increase in wealth—whether through wages, benefits, bonuses, sale of stock or other property at a profit, bets won, lucky finds, awards of punitive damages in a lawsuit, qui tam actions—are all within the definition of income, unless Congress makes a specific exemption as it has for items such as life insurance proceeds received by reason of the death of the insured party,[14] gifts, bequests, devises and inheritances,[15] and certain scholarships.[16] The courts have interpreted the Sixteenth Amendment as standing for the rule that the Amendment allows a direct tax on "wages, salaries, commissions, etc. without apportionment."[17]"

Answer 3

The LAW you are looking for that requires you to pay income taxes is found in the "Internal Revenue Code or IRC." Go to the IRS website, www.irs.gov., and you can read and learn about the IRC in its splendid entirety. Another poster cited the correct Federal Statute where the IRC is found as its part of the United States Code within the Title cited. It says that all US Citizens are subject to a tax on income "from whatever source derived." That's why Al Capone went to jail. He did not pay taxes to the IRS on income that he made from bootlegging. Notice the IRC says "whatever source," even if it's an illegal source. Hope this helps!!

Answer 4

Title 26 of the US Code. There is no 1936 SC ruling that deems income taxes illegal. The opinion of a single justice is meaningless, the majority opinion is what matters.

Since you didn't bother to provide a citation of the case it's not possible to review it to prove you wrong.

Answer 5

This is a position taken by many tax protesters, the one I can think of first is the knuckle head at paynoincometax.com.

What you don't find easily on his website is that he has gone to prison multiple times.

Be wary of what you try, is it worth going to prison to take a position the courts wont even listen to, they will call it frivilous, take your stuff and send you to prision.

Sec 61 of the IRS code is where I would start.

Answer 6

Title 26 - Internal Revenue Code

Don't buy in to the Tax Protester arguments. You will be much happier in the long run.

Answer 7

That would be the 16th Amendment. Plus the Internal Revenue Code.