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Having actually read the tax code myself (as opposed to parroting) I can say that it's not very clear just who is responsible for paying what.

Well, there's that old saying about the ten percent. These scams, some of which you seem to have fallen for have been around for a lot of years. The IRS seems quite comfortable with the plethora of Supreme Court, Appeals Court, district and tax court decisions that have ruled each of these scams out. I haven't heard such word parsing since Clinton's days in the oval office.

You may not be able to figure out that you are an "individual", that you have "wages or salaries" (or income from whatever other source), or how much to pay in taxes. But those things are in the code!

But, hey. Be my guest, claim $0 and wait. Just hope that you too have a jury that can't read or write, or is mad they have to pay taxes.

Do you really believe that since 1913, if such easy loopholes existed, Congress wouldn't have fixed them?

By the way, the only hyperventilating I see on this thread is coming from the crowd that thinks they have just gotton a tax windfall. That would make me hyperventilate!

You seem to be making a lot of false assumptions about what I do or don't do in regard to paying my taxes, and assume that I have fallen for some sort of scam.

In reality, I'm a tax professional who is licensed to practice law in several states, and merely have my own opinions about the clarity of the tax code.

You can stop hyperventilating now.

"Do you really believe that since 1913, if such easy loopholes existed, Congress wouldn't have fixed them?"

I gave a talk in 1989 on something called Current Liability, mentioned in Code Section 412. Congress said that the IRS should define the term. 14 years later, IRS has not done so.

Do you really believe that since 1913, if such easy loopholes existed, Congress wouldn't have fixed them?

Do you really believe that, if the question were as easy to answer as you think it is, the IRS would not just answer them, simply, directly, in writing, and on the record? So, why haven't they?

"Do you really believe that since 1913, if such easy loopholes existed, Congress wouldn't have fixed them?"

Federal Judges have consistently ruled against the Schiff thesis. That is all that counts these days.

Schiff's politcal critque of the income tax has a great deal of merit, in my view. The move toward a more equitable tax system will have to be accomplished politcally. No Federally appointed judge will ever have the "stones" to overturn the IRS code unilaterally.