Is there a law that requires Americans to pay income taxes?

Question

If so why won't the IRS show us the law that requires us to pay income taxes? i mean i know the 16th Amendment but it was never ratified.

Ok but first look at the link below.

http://www.smartvoter.org/1998jun/ca/state/vote/rivera_e/paper1.html

Answer 1

1. Yes, there is a law that requires Americans to pay income taxes. It is called the "Internal Revenue Code".
2. The Internal Revenue Code is on the Internet and very easy to find if you want to see it. If the IRS will not show it to you, that is because they know that you can see it without their help and are very busy and do not have time to deal with tax protesters repeating the same points that have already been addressed.
3. The 16th Amendment was ratified.
4. The 16th Amendment does not require anyone to pay income taxes. The 16th Amendment allows Congress to impose income taxes and to require payment of them. Congress has done so by passing (and repeatedly amending) the Internal Revenue Code. If Congress had not done so, the 16th Amendment would not have had any effect. It is the Internal Revenue Code, not the 16th Amendment, that requires payment of income taxes. The only significance of the 16th Amendment was to allow Congress to pass the Internal Revenue Code.

Answer 2

Golly gee, thanks for letting us know this. I thought that if the Supreme Court--they are the guys (and the occasional gal) who are suppose to say what the law really says--said a law was OK (including that the ruling that the 16th amendment was ratified) then it was. I wasn't aware that those kooks really were right all the time. The next time you are in Tax Court tell this to the judge there and maybe he won't zap you with the whole $25,000 penalty for bring a frivolous suit.

Answer 3

You don't have to pay income tax if you don't have any income and not only that, there are lots of ways to have income that can't be proven to the government, like cash. Anyway, I don't know the answer to your question. It makes a person wonder if it is all worth it and if the government isn't giving us the once over if you know what I mean.

Answer 4

The re is a huge body of law called the internal revenuew code that requires US citizens to pay income taxes. There has never been a serious challenge to the constitutional amendment, so don't bother trying it.

Answer 5

Title 26 - Internal Revenue Code

http://www4.law.cornell.edu/uscode/html/uscode26/usc_sup_01_26.html

What makes you think that the 16th was never ratified?

The ratification of the 16th Amendment is one of the theories put forward by tax protesters. It has never been victorious in court.

File your returns and pay your taxes. You will be much happier in the long run.

-------Edit:
Ed Rivera is a crackpot. The website has a 1998 date! Here is an press release from 2003:

>>>>WASHINGTON, D.C. - The Department of Justice's Tax Division, working with the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Central District of California, today filed suit in federal court in Los Angeles to stop California attorney Eduardo Marmolejo Rivera from promoting several abusive tax scams. Rivera allegedly promotes three main scams: he sells opinion letters falsely stating that his customers are not liable for federal income taxes; he represents his customers before the Internal Revenue Service for the stated purpose of determining their "non-liability" for all federal taxes; and he sells an "asset protection" service that he falsely implies can shield his customers' assets from IRS levies.<<<<

-----Edit....again.
More info on "Ed":

>>>>Eduardo Rivera, a California lawyer, was permanently barred by a federal court from promoting several allegedly abusive tax schemes. The court also ordered Rivera to tell the government the names of his customers and to notify the customers about the court order. The court found that Rivera sold "opinion letters" containing frivolous arguments, including "that the federal income tax is voluntary, that Americans employed in the private sector are exempt from federal income tax and do not need to file federal returns, and that the IRS has no authority to assess or collect taxes."
<<<<

Answer 6

We are only required to pay income tax if we have taxable income. If you can arrange your affairs iin such a "legal" way to avoide paying income tax, more power to you.

If you are a tax protestor, please show us where the strategy worked legally. That means that you were audited and did not owe a liability based upon your strategy. I asked this question months ago and I am still waiting for the answer (see link below). For some reason, not one tax protestor was able to answer.

I think that is strange.

Answer 7

there is no law, and they don't try to show it to anyone (the sixteenth amendment)because it wouldn't stand up in a true court of law, so they just use bullying tactics, inflammatory name calling etc, to confuse the issue.

the irs code says that taxes are voluntary, in fact they try to make it look like compulsion because it uses phrases like voluntary compliance, which conveys the idea of coercion.

but of coure what is written and enforced are two different things, just ask the browns about that.

RRRR

Answer 8

Oh yes there is. Thank your good old Congress person for that.

And by the way they also created other taxes for your earnings like medicade, and social security.

Get over it. Look for lots more coming!

Answer 9

YES! But if you don't believe me just don't pay your income taxes next April.

Answer 10

Nice try at a shameless promotion of a lunatic fringe politician.