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


Asked on 1/30/99, 7:24 pm

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.


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Answered on 2/01/99, 4:14 pm


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