Paying taxes illegal?

Question

All that has to be said about why we have to pay taxes has been said. Question is though, Since it is voluntary to pay taxes why are we forced to pay them, if not we can go to jail?
Why can't the government print more money to pay what needs to be paid. Your response please. Thank you.

Answer 1

For those who think paying taxes is legal, watch this video...
www.freedomtofascism.com

Answer 2

It is not that simple. The government cannot just print more money to pay what needs to be paid. That is like writing a check on an account that has no money in it. If taxpayers do not pay their taxes, there will not be any money for government funding. We need to pay taxes to keep the country running.

Answer 3

Since when has it been voluntary to pay taxes? And the answer to printing money without backing is that you would devalue your currency and create massive inflation. Amongst other things.

Answer 4

Pay your taxes young man before you end up being held as some political prisoner in our ever accommodating American jail system. The IRS even makes Uncle Sam insecure.

Answer 5

It's not voluntary to pay taxes once a tax assessment has been made. The assessment can be made voluntarily by the person, or it can be made by the govt based on reported income.

Once a tax assessment has been made, failure to pay taxes is a criminal offense. See 26 USC 7203.

Answer 6

Paying taxes is NOT voluntary.

If the government printed more money, the dollar would become useless and inflation would skyrocket.

Answer 7

Money is printed based on the amount of gold reserves we have. That is what gives your money "value". Just printing out more money without gold or something of value to back it up makes it worthless.

That just makes it easier than carrying around a hundreds of dollars of gold around with you trying to get change. :-)

Answer 8

It is not voluntary to pay taxes. There is a voluntary assessment, not a voluntary payment.

In United States v. Gerads, 999 F.2d 1255 (8th Cir. 1993), cert. den. 510 U.S. 1193 (1994) “Appellants’ claim that payment of federal income tax is voluntary clearly lacks substance.”

In United States v. Hartman, 915 F.Supp. 1227 (M.D.Fla. 1996) “Any assertion that the payment of income taxes is voluntary is without merit. It is without question that the payment of income taxes is not voluntary. [citations omitted] The assertion that the filing of an income tax return is voluntary is, likewise, frivolous.”

Don't even get me started about "Freedom to Fascism". That movie is full of out-of-context quotes and misinterpretations of the law.
http://select.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=F20B15FB385B0C728FDDAE0894DE404482

Irwin Schiff, one of the people in the film has been convicted for the THIRD time. By the time he gets out of jail, if he doesn't get released early for health reasons, he'll be 88 years old and will STILL HAVE TO PAY HIS TAXES.

Vernice Kuglin, while she wasn't convicted of criminal charges, still ended up having to pay taxes and penalties.
Amazingly, the transcripts to the Kuglin trial and verdict are on Irwin Schiff's website. Here is a short excerpt from that transcript that Schiff and Russo probably don't want you to read.
In U.S. v. Kuglin, CR-03-20111, near the end of the transcripts, pg. 776,

THE COURT: So anything else from the United States?

MR. MURPHY (Federal lawyer): Just one thing, to put Ms. Kuglin on notice, she has got to pay taxes, I think the court
ought to instruct her that that is the law. She has got to file returns and --

MR. BECRAFT (Lawyer for defense): Your Honor, that is going to be cleaned up totally.

THE COURT: Okay. Well, Mr. Murphy is not incorrect that it is the law, and I think what he's also saying is there will still be civil penalties.

MR. BECRAFT: I expect probably 90-day letters to be coming pretty quick.

THE COURT: Okay.

MR. BECRAFT: And there's going to be civil proceedings, and she is going to being take responsibility -- she is going to be doing things to respond to all of that like file returns, Your Honor.


So, as anyone can plainly see, Kuglin was acquitted by a jury of her peers of "Willful failure to file", but that she still has to pay her income taxes. If I remember correctly, she had approximately $930,000 in income over a six year period and she ended up paying a little over $500,000 in taxes and penalties. It would have been cheaper for her to just pay her taxes in the first place.

Everyone here should read the excellent tax protestor faq online at http://evans-legal.com/dan/tpfaq.html Daniel Evans covers every point made by tax protestors. Another good site is http://www.quatloos.com

Title 26 is the codification of the Internal Revenue Code. http://www2.law.cornell.edu/uscode/26/usc_sup_01_26.html
You can read the actual Internal Revenue Code in the U.S. Statutes at large available at Federal Depository Libraries. The basis for today's tax laws is the Internal Revenue Code of 1954 which was passed by Congress and signed into law by President Eisenhower. Amendments and modifications to the IRC have all been passed by Congress and signed by a President.

Also, the whole bit about the Federal Reserve is wrong also. You can read the law concerning the Federal Reserve in the U.S. Code Title 12, Chapter 3. http://www.access.gpo.gov/uscode/title12/chapter3_.html

The quote attributed to Woodrow Wilson, that starts with "I am a most unhappy man..." is probably false. Parts of the quote are taken out of context from Wilson's book, "The New Freedom". You can read it for yourself at the Project Gutenberg, http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/14811

Another quote taken completely out of context was a quote by President Clinton. Here it is as the film quotes it.
“We can’t be so fixated on our desire to preserve the rights of ordinary Americans…”

Here is the real quote from Clinton,
http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/ws/index.php?pid=46264
"You know, we can't be so fixated on our desire to preserve the rights of ordinary Americans to legitimately own handguns and rifles—it's something I strongly support—we can't be so fixated on that that we are unable to think about the reality of life that millions of Americans face on streets that are unsafe, under conditions that no other nation—no other nations—has permitted to exist."
As anyone can clearly see, Clinton's quote has ABSOLUTELY NOTHING to do about taxation.

It is a favorite tax protestor ploy to take quotes and statements out of context. Especially quotes from court cases. Therefore, don't take someone's word what a court case says, look it up for yourself and read them. Anyone can read Federal Appellate and Supreme Court opinions at http://www.findlaw.com You have to register as a law professional, but it is free.

One last thing, in the U.S. Judicial system it is not allowed, with some minor exceptions, for either the plaintiff or defense to show the jury the law. They are only allowed to put forth their version of the facts. It is the judge's responsibility to inform the jury what is in the applicable law. This is to prevent the jury from MISINTERPRETING the law. However, Title 26 of the U.S. Code is the prima facie law covering income taxes.