Posted on 06/03/2013 9:44:55 AM PDT by Errant
Amid an unusual spotlight on IRS conduct, a Colorado businessman contends his case is one the government particularly wants to keep hidden, because it could cause the whole federal agency to self-destruct.
Jeff Maehr, a Colorado chiropractor who has engaged in a number of business ventures, including PureHealthSystems.com, admits he has refused to file federal income tax returns since 2002, but he says the IRS is afraid to press criminal charges against him.
(Excerpt) Read more at wnd.com ...
*Now that the beast is out in the open it will be much easier to starve it.*
I hope that, unlike the Hotel California, we have steelier knives and a less resolute beast!
Metaphorically, that is....
It would be easy to make an honest mistake though. Even for a CPA. After I settle down I go over my federal and state returns line by line. I understand most of it except this year I didn't know how to treat a certain kind of income and my CPA had to find out.
Many pitfalls is right. Most of those pages don't apply to most of us. I shudder to think if they take charge of Obamacare how taxpayers will deal with it. There will be a lot of angry people.
They can’t take 10 million individual’s houses...
That's me. I report everything, even if someone hands me a $100 bucks for doing something for them. Otherwise, I wouldn't be on FR and even mentioning the IRS... lol
Well, that can get iffy. I'll have to find out because I have my yard mowed now and they bill me.
That is true, and the timeline for getting them into the hands of the recipient isn’t that long after the first of the year. Otherwise you’re fined, if you miss the deadline, used to be $25 (I believe) each.
Well, it's a slow finish so far today to the market. That's something new that I'll have next year. Slow finish today, probably speed up here shortly.
I have a buddy that informed me that: "they can't put you in prison because there is no such thing as debtors prison anymore" (LOL!)
House to house is the plan.
He’s not principled, and he’s not very smart, in my opinion. Frugal, independent living is the legal and moral way, but it requires self-discipline and hard work (examples, gardening, building one’s own heating system to cut heating costs). But the IRS still goes after those who do it the legal and moral way for some very interesting and wasteful cases (see law-abiding peasants resembling those in Monty Python shows in Tax and District courts).
I rarely read WorldNetDaily but did read the whole article this time. We do each require maintenance, at costs, in order to produce labor, but that maintenance would consist of certain necessities—not luxuries. “Reasonable,” you know.
Where I wrote,...
But the IRS still goes after those who do it the legal and moral way for some very interesting and wasteful cases (see law-abiding peasants resembling those in Monty Python shows in Tax and District courts).
Monty Python - Always Look on the Bright Side of Life
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jHPOzQzk9Qo
"(a) General definition
Except as otherwise provided in this subtitle, gross income means all income from whatever source derived, including (but not limited to) the following items:
(1) Compensation for services, including fees, commissions, fringe benefits, and similar items; "
So he would have to successfully argue that (i) this statute is unconstitutional, which from the article he seems unwilling to make, or (ii) that there is something else in the subtitle that provides that compensation from services, which may or may not be wages, does not constitute gross income, which there is not.
And he keeps talking about prosecuting him. There is a whole lot the IRS can due to collect unpaid taxes that is not prosecution, such as imposition of liens on property and garnishment of wages or other income. Prosecution is merely icing on the cake as far as the IRS is concerned and the more publicity he gets the more likely it is that prosecution will be forthcoming.
I have a law degree and a Master of Laws in Taxation from the top program in the country and there is nothing in your statement that is remotely accurate. I don't work for the IRS and don't like paying taxes any more than anyone else, but it's not helpful to spread inaccurate information.
Smart decision Mr. Galt since you would likely end up in prison where this guy is ultimately going to go......
Even if that was a legitimate argument how would he argue that he needn't file a tax return for any interest or dividends he received? At the income levels discussed in the article it's very likely he had some of that type of income. (I know you were just summarizing his argument, not necessarily agreeing with it.)
How do state income taxes constitute double taxation if they are deductible on one's federal return?
And both of us are required to report the fair market value of what we received as income. The problem with barter transactions from the government's perspective is not that they are non-taxable (they clearly are), but that there is no practical way to track them.
One won't go to prison for not being able to pay the taxes owed. One will go to prison for not filing returns and for lying to or misleading the IRS about what is owed.
ROFLMAO! Good luck with that, you're not even going to get a posse' if the SHTF. All the big talkers hereabouts have jobs, mortgages, truck payments, boat payments, kids in college and kids with soccer practice this weekend.
They're gonna be too busy for the revolution........
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