Legal Question in Tax Law in North Carolina
Compulsory Federal Income Taxation
Guru,
Please notify me of the specific federal law which compels US citizens to pay individual income tax. I assume this is somewhere in the USC. Is this correct?
Thanks Guru
1 Answer from Attorneys
Re: Compulsory Federal Income Taxation
United States Code Chapter 26 Section 1.
The idiots who put you onto this idea
may give you bad advice and not go to jail because
they give you that advice. And if they charge you
for the bad advice, it's still legal. And they can
lie to you about what they say to IRS agents and whether
they pay any taxes, and it's still legal. Don't let someone
take your money and tell you to save yourself money by
breaking the law.
And it will be breaking the law for you to not file or to not
pay your taxes. (If your withholdings are sufficient, maybe
the government won't care too much.)
Don't be a fool. If you choose not to pay the taxes,
so be it, but don't think either that it's legal or that a plea
that you are innocent because you believed it will
save your skin. There are a lot of people who act
like it's legal but don't pay their taxes, I know.
Most don't file a return, to help stay under the radar,
so to speak. But I also know there are several famous tax protestors
in jail already, but fewer who were found innocent
by a sympathetic jury (and now pay their taxes!).
Stuart Williams
Law Offices of Stuart J. Williams
21 Walter St.