And isn't it interesting that the Government Accounting Office - GAO recently told a congressman that "there is no statute authority for the IRS to demand that employers withhold anything from their employees paychecks"?
"And isn't it interesting that the Government Accounting Office - GAO recently told a congressman that "there is no statute authority for the IRS to demand that employers withhold anything from their employees paychecks"?"
Clearly you haven't bothered to read the thread. I quoted the statute from the US Code in toto.
US Code
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Sec. 3402. - Income tax collected at source
(a) Requirement of withholding
(1) In general
Except as otherwise provided in this section, every employer making payment of wages shall deduct and withhold upon such wages a tax determined in accordance with tables or computational procedures prescribed by the Secretary. Any tables or procedures prescribed under this paragraph shall -
(A)
apply with respect to the amount of wages paid during such periods as the Secretary may prescribe, and
(B)
be in such form, and provide for such amounts to be deducted and withheld, as the Secretary determines to be most appropriate to carry out the purposes of this chapter and to reflect the provisions of chapter 1 applicable to such periods.
(2) Amount of wages
For purposes of applying tables or procedures prescribed under paragraph (1), the term ''the amount of wages'' means the amount by which the wages exceed the number of withholding exemptions claimed multiplied by the amount of one such exemption. The amount of each withholding exemption shall be equal to the amount of one personal exemption provided in section 151(b), prorated to the payroll period. The maximum number of withholding exemptions permitted shall be calculated in accordance with regulations prescribed by the Secretary under this section, taking into account any reduction in withholding to which an employee is entitled under this section.
http://www4.law.cornell.edu/uscode/26/3404.html Those in government have choosen a form of selective interpretation of the law and that in the end will part of what destroys them.