Are you engaged in a trade or business?
If so, do you KNOW what the legal definition of a "trade or business" is in the law?
You can find it in the tax code at 26 USC 7701(a)(26):
The term “trade or business” includes the performance of the functions of a public office.
There is NO OTHER definition of this term anywhere in the tax code.
FYI.
Yes, insurance is gambling, but the IRS is a different kind of "house always wins". They act as if every time anyone gives us money in any way, even if we dropped it and they picked it up, it's a potential taxable transaction, because that's the way the tax system is designed to make them think. Every receipt is equal to a gambling profit; just see the Supreme Court case called Groetzinger for a peek at the rabbit hole. The answer is of course that we structure our lives so that everything we do with Washington funny money is expressed not to be a taxable transaction.
Well, the main excuse they use for the Taxes they impose, is that we are not using Constitutional Money, or U.S. Dollars, but in fact are using a Foreign Monetary System....
And I have to agree that we are in Fact using a Foreign Monetary System, that has as its Currency, the Foreign Funny Money called Federal Reserve Dollars...
We have our own form of Viable, Legitimate untaxable Money in Gold and Silver Coin, which is supposed to be Minted by the U.S. Congress, but the problem is that the U.S. Congress became soo incompetent and LAZY, that they voluntarily gave up that DUTY, to a Privately Owned Foreign Banking Corporation....
We know that ALL Foreign Currencies and Foreign Moneys, are Taxable, hence we get Taxed for using the Federal Reserve Corporate Notes, even though we do not have ANY OTHER CHOICE, and that is the definition of Strong Arm Robbery and Fraud....
I honestly do not know who to point at directly for this, other than the RNC and DNC, but I do know that the OWNERS of the Fed Res need to pay back everything they've stolen, PLUS Massive Interest at a rate of something like 90%, because of the Fraud they have perpetuated upon us with the bogus ""National Debt"", which is unpayable in any way....
Look at my other comments here. The Fed is horrendous and destructive, but it's a different allied scheme to the IRS. The IRS is in the process of mob shakeup collections by making everybody want to pay up rather than seek lower liability. The Fed is in the process of constant devaluation (melting) of the funny money already in the pocket ("ice-cream money"). Two different attacks on middle-class wealth. Obviously gold cannot be increased without expense of commensurate labor, but fiat can, so gold is money and fiat is "bad money driving out good".
But those who say gold vs. FRNs is the "excuse" for the taxes are mistaken. In this country where we are all sovereigns we cannot be taxed except by our consent. The IRS has worked very hard to hide the actual path by which we consent to the tax by our action and inaction. The use of FRNs is not that path; they would still tax you if you worked for gold from a modern-traditional employer who followed ADP rules. Essential: find the nexus. Thus see my other comments on this page.
So WHY are the country's citizens Consenting??- I have asked that since 1973
Thank you so much for asking. They've forgotten they are sovereigns because an evil, tireless knot of destroyers has persuaded them with Fabian persistence to forget their rights and powers and to yield lifeblood to leeches instead. Everyone volunteers because they've seen everyone else volunteer and because there is a strong force coloring all alternatives to volunteering with the greatest deprecation. You know how strong peer pressure is.
If you ever need help voicing your refusal to consent to any mismanagement by your federal "government", the servant of your servants, please ask publicly or privately.
I've read what you're saying, but the fact still stands that We rat ourselves out every April 15th, and that is where they got us....
And you're right, the FRNs are not the Path, but the Excuse for the path, the path itself begins with Contracts, everything in America happens on Contractual Agreement, without it, nothing happens....
Every Tax, no matter what it is, Income Tax, Social Security Tax, Road Tax, Land Tax, Sales Tax, Luxury Tax, etc., are all based upon some Contract, whether we can see that Contract or not....
It may be a t the bottom of a pile of books, and that might make one think it is hidden, it isn't, very little is actually hidden, and Contracts between Govt Entities and the public are never hidden, they might be forgotten, but not hidden.....
If you don't want to pay the Taxes, that's fine, but it's on You to learn what specific Contracts You have with the State and Federal Governments, and then You have to Break those Contracts....
I'll go so far as to point out that they are Adhesion Contracts, and cannot be nor have they ever been negotiable nor negotiated....
Almost, but the almost is part of the trick. Many Americans are "falsely ratting" themselves by signing prepared confessions that they don't understand, haven't researched, and still trust. Standard Soviet tactic. It's not ratting per se when you confess falsely and in ignorance. The paperwork is complex in order to hide the part of it where you're making the key false statement(s).
The contract-law research prepares one to understand the law but is not the legal nexus itself. They can't get you with a contract you have no legal notice of, but they can get you through the ordinary promulgated law if you don't read and understand the law for yourself, because you delegated them to write the law by electing a representative (or by failing to when notified). But if your methodology is to "learn" and "break" adhesion contracts, that terminology won't help you in the end because it's not enough as such.
By the same token it shouldn't be a matter of "not wanting to pay the taxes". Income taxes in the nature of excise always mean you have a choice between not engaging the taxable activity, and engaging the activity prepared to pay the tax. For many, it's easier to claim they engaged taxable activity when they didn't, just to keep the protection racket on someone else's neck instead.
If you testify truly every April 15, you have done right, though the "service" may then try to make life harder and get you to retract your testimony if they don't like it. They have no interest in telling you when you've gotten it right, so they prosecute lots of people who get it wrong too. But all you can do is to speak truly to all men and that includes tax authorities; when they come back at you, you continue to testify truly. True testimony requires consistent understanding of the law.
Now I can only say so much here, but obviously the taxable activity is "income generation". This is why I ask you whether anyone is testifying to the IRS under penalties of perjury that money paid to you was a category of income as opposed to nonincome. If someone testified that, even if mistaken, that is the more serious "false ratting" because it comes from another rather than yourself, and can also be used to gaslight yourself into thinking the testimony must be right. (If it were wrong then all kinds of things would be wrong and that wouldn't make sense for nobody to have successfully stood up against, would it?) Well, each sovereign must determine the truth by personal search.
With Solzhenitsyn's captors, "one word of truth" dispels a multitude of lies, but with the IRS you might need to tell them the truth a few times, which is why you must learn it on your own until you have resolved concerns and contradictions. There is guidance available but I limit my own statements to the topics actually at hand. Thinking about the questions I asked, along with the question of what would legally be sufficient to rebut a jurat document written by your workplace, will make progress for you.