Can someone show me the law that saws you have to pay federal income tax?

Question

I heard about the Brown family in NH and how they have been convicted of tax evasion but say that they don't have to pay because there isn't a written law that says you have to pay income tax. I also heard of a company that is willing to pay 300,000 to anyone who can find the law.

Answer 1

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 of—
(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.

Answer 2

Boy oh boy there are some real winners answering tonight/today. . . Title 26, subtitle A (income tax) is difficult, at best, to read and understand but, with intense study and assistance one learns that this part of the code is primarily applicable to foreigners or citizens with foreign earned income. Subtitle C (employment tax) is the voluntary contribution a 'covered employee' makes in conjunction with matching 'non voluntary' contributions by the employer. I don't know the Browns case and without knowing it specifically cannot comment. A jury found them guilty but I understand the crooked court prevented them a proper trial by denying their evidence. So... the judges in the country are in cahootz with the IRS and juries are uneducated (for the most part) and unwilling to do their duty to judge both the facts AND the law! Which is their constitutional right and duty. Judges often withhold this and actually instruct the jury to do otherwise; which ultimately undermines the very principle of we the people performing a very necessary checks and balance of the law. There's a great little booklet out called 'The Juror's Handbook'. Get it. It can mean the life or death of a poor soul sitting before your jury box. Be a good juror. Know the law. And if you don't know it, demand the judge provide it to you in black and white. Chances are the Brown's jury (sheople) took the judges word for everything. The movie another answerer alluded to above is AMERICA: Freedom to Fascism by the late, great Aaron Russo. Watch the full length directors cut on google videos. Its a MUST SEE.

Answer 3

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

Answer 4

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.

Answer 5

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.

Answer 6

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?

Answer 7

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.

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), 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

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.

Answer 10

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 !