IRS CLAIM 3:
"Section 6012 of the Internal Revenue Code makes clear-in great detail- that the only
people
who are not required to file tax returns are
those whose income falls below certain levels."
REBUTTAL 3: There they go again ignoring the IRC section 861
source issue and "taxable income" or
"gross income" issues. Section 6012 does
indeed mention "gross income" and says that parties with a
gross income less than the exemption amount do not have to
file income tax returns. In fact, if people
used the IRC's own section 861 for identifying taxable
sources of income, then their gross income (which
is income that derives from a taxable source) would be
zero and therefore they would fall below the
exemption amount.
IRS CLAIM 4:
"However, the term 'voluntary compliance' in Flora is taken out of context and
is used to
spread spurious claims that taxes are optional. The courts
have historically held that there are no
Constitutional, moral, or legal grounds for failing to
file tax returns and failing to pay taxes. The term
'voluntary compliance' refers to the fact that the majority of
taxpayers in the United States complete tax
returns and send in their taxes due without the need for
enforcement action on the part of the Internal
Revenue Service. Failure to file required tax returns or
failure to pay taxes will result in criminal and/or
civil penalties."
REBUTTAL 4: They are correct that for SOME people taxes are
NOT optional, but the people they are
talking about are citizens with foreign income or
residents of Puerto Rico, the District of Columbia, or the
Virgin Islands, which are all taxable sources per the IRC
section 861. We'd like to remind you that you can
be a taxpayer without being LIABLE for paying tax!
The majority of citizens fit this category because
they do not have foreign income, but the IRS and Congress
have been remiss in reminding such people
that they don't need to pay because they don't mind
taking your "donations" and exploiting your
ignorance by a complicated and unnecessarily long tax
code.