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Question

I heard that income tax is not supported by ANY law.
Can anyone prove or disprove this?
SHOW ME proof.

Thank you.

ALSO, what do you have to say about this?

Is this crazy?

Thank you :)

FOR THE RECORD - I PAY MY TAXES!!!!!!

I just want to see if anyone has heard this.

I'm not even THINKING of not paying my taxes, I'm not stupid, I don't want to get arrested. Is there any peice of law that backs up the income tax?
Just a question.

Answer 1

Okay, first, the income tax is legal and is supported by law. For proof, take a look at the 16th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, which provides:

"The Congress shall have power to lay and collect taxes on incomes, from whatever source derived, without apportionment among the several States, and without regard to any census or enumeration."

The means of calculating the income tax due and owing the government is articulated in Title 26 of the U.S. Code (also known as the IRS Code). Title 26 is simply too voluminous to include in this answer, but it is available online and in any law library.

Some say that 16th Amendment was unlawfully adopted. I have heard the reasons why this is believed and can only respond that, even if these arguments were correct, the issue is long dead now. The income tax is here to stay.

Others say that Title 26 does not contain a command to pay taxes; rather, it merely tells people how to compute the amount of taxes owed. This is a semantic argument, and as noted below, it is inaccurate, but still people argue it.

Title 26, Subtitle A, Chapter 1, Section 1 includes a command to pay income taxes, so I have no idea why folks would say it doesn't. You can read it yourself at the following site: http://www4.law.cornell.edu/uscode/html/uscode26/usc_sec_26_00000001----000-.html.

Further, the IRS Code contains language stating that tax fraud and tax evasion are illegal (USC Title 26, Sec. 7201 and 7202). To declare that there is no command to pay taxes is simply wrong.

In my view, the income tax is supported by law. Some would rather we abolished it, including some who are running for office in 2008 (Ron Paul, for example).

To respond to your question, the notion that the income tax is unsupported by law is not crazy. It is merely wrong.

Answer 2

You are mistaken. Read on:

Passed by Congress on July 2, 1909, and ratified February 3, 1913, the 16th amendment established Congress's right to impose a Federal income tax.

Far-reaching in its social as well as its economic impact, the income tax amendment became part of the Constitution by a curious series of events culminating in a bit of political maneuvering that went awry.

The financial requirements of the Civil War prompted the first American income tax in 1861. At first, Congress placed a flat 3-percent tax on all incomes over $800 and later modified this principle to include a graduated tax. Congress repealed the income tax in 1872, but the concept did not disappear.

After the Civil War, the growing industrial and financial markets of the eastern United States generally prospered. But the farmers of the south and west suffered from low prices for their farm products, while they were forced to pay high prices for manufactured goods. Throughout the 1860s, 1870s, and 1880s, farmers formed such political organizations as the Grange, the Greenback Party, the National Farmers’ Alliance, and the People’s (Populist) Party. All of these groups advocated many reforms (see the Interstate Commerce Act) considered radical for the times, including a graduated income tax.

In 1894, as part of a high tariff bill, Congress enacted a 2-percent tax on income over $4,000. The tax was almost immediately struck down by a five-to-four decision of the Supreme Court, even though the Court had upheld the constitutionality of the Civil War tax as recently as 1881. Although farm organizations denounced the Court’s decision as a prime example of the alliance of government and business against the farmer, a general return of prosperity around the turn of the century softened the demand for reform. Democratic Party Platforms under the leadership of three-time Presidential candidate William Jennings Bryan, however, consistently included an income tax plank, and the progressive wing of the Republican Party also espoused the concept.

In 1909 progressives in Congress again attached a provision for an income tax to a tariff bill. Conservatives, hoping to kill the idea for good, proposed a constitutional amendment enacting such a tax; they believed an amendment would never received ratification by three-fourths of the states. Much to their surprise, the amendment was ratified by one state legislature after another, and on February 25, 1913, with the certification by Secretary of State Philander C. Knox, the 16th amendment took effect. Yet in 1913, due to generous exemptions and deductions, less than 1 percent of the population paid income taxes at the rate of only 1 percent of net income.

This document settled the constitutional question of how to tax income and, by so doing, effected dramatic changes in the American way of life.

Answer 3

You heard wrong. Check the sixteenth amendment. The Internal Revenue Code is the statutory body of law for this.

You may have heard that there is no law mandating reporting of taxes. That is true. The US has a self reporting system. But there are steep penalties for not reporting your income or reporting incorrect income.

Answer 4

Federal income tax is included in an amendment to the United States Constitution.

You might want to make sure the person you heard that from can read...

Answer 5

an AMMENDMENT to the United States Constitution IS LAW. Check the 16th. Courts have heard this argument over and over. No one who made this claim has ever won, and those who lost either paid penalties and interest on their back taxes or could be in jail, plus having to pay lawyer's fees to make this absurd argument.

Answer 6

The 16th amendment to the constitution was never ratified by a majority of states to allow the income tax to actually become law. Therefore, officially the income tax system that we have is illegal, unconstitutional and the IRS is akin to a bunch of mobsters extorting 'protection money' from innocent citizens for their bosses at the federal reserve. Ron Paul as President is the only candidate voicing a concern over this fleecing of the American public.

Answer 7

Read the 16th amendment of the US Constitution...Link below

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sixteenth_Amendment_to_the_United_States_Constitution

I gave you the answer! The 16th amendment gives the Congress the ability to collect taxes on incomes. Constitutional amendments ARE law!

Answer 8

It's supported by a large volume of taxation legislation, of course. That's how the taxman knows how much to take.
As for the constitutional validity of that legislation, it's allowed under the 16th amendment.

Answer 9

Totally illegal. Don't pay your taxes ever. Let me know your address and I'll drop you a line in prison.

Answer 10

This has been brought up by fascists so often that the judges no longer laugh at people who bring this up in their tax evasion trials.


If you know someone who evades taxes, turn them in. By not paying their share, your taxes are higher.