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.
So, just claim it's all ""REPARATIONS FOR LABOR DONE""....
Got it....
Nope nope! There are literally a Dozen schemes out there that don't work and that the IRS is fine with people touting because they can legally slap them down. Claiming reparations is big because it resonates with several races. It won't do a thing except delay and worsen the inevitable. When people follow the law instead, the IRS can only either ignore them, harass them, or make fun of a caricature of what they're doing and hope we don't notice the bait-and-switch.
If we assume (1) You don't want to pay income tax (hinted above) and (2) You want to obey the law if possible (broad axiom), there is a conclusion (3) You don't want to have taxable income. That leads us to ask how. Now since the Supremes tell us income tax is in the nature of an excise (it couldn't be a direct tax because it would expire in 2 years), by definition it is evitable (avoidable), so your conclusion is entirely possible. We can also add the proposition (4) You want to exert your common-law and Constitutional right to exchange labor for money (broad axiom). That would lead to the further conclusion (5) You want your earnings not to be taxable income. That leads us to ask whether that's "really possible." Well, if it weren't, then the whole country would be deprived of its fundamental right to labor, and we'd have a case that somebody rich should be able to identify; but, since that hasn't happened, maybe the actual state of affairs is that it is possible and nobody wants to talk about how. Even I want to be cagey about it.
(I should also mention peaceful civil disobedience, very important moral question but one which doesn't affect this decision. Not ignoring it but its bearing is tangential.)
If you said "my earnings are not income because they are reparations", the problem is that you have no legal justification, only a rarefied theory based on the common law of reparations. In America that law is subsumed into class action and you'd need a lawyer to prove reparations and get a verdict before you could claim it; so it doesn't work to claim it to the IRS preemptively. Sorry. It's important to beat down mistakes like this so they don't impugn the honesty of the searcher; and it's important that we don't make it into an argument because we need as much unity as we can. (So if it were to become an argument I'd appeal to the plain words of the law and code and if we agreed to that we'd find a much more direct route there than reparations I think.)
So in my other comments in this thread there are hints as to when earnings are not taxable income. For instance, everyone agrees, standard regulation, that if you earn more than $147,000 this year your extra earnings are not taxable income for some tax purposes. However, I haven't said why this is or for what purposes this applies, because I want people to share in the research. But the fact that everyone knows that earnings are not automatically taxable income for all purposes means that we have the right to question whether earnings are taxable income for our purposes. And that question is answered by law and code.
Well, at this point, and more like since Obama first stole the presidency, we have been falling further and further away from having a Govt at Federation Level that obeys the Law....
So yeah, I've watched the entire ""Sovereign Citizen"" thing happen, and also on the other side of that coin, I've seen a few people who have Corrected their Legal Status, and no longer have to deal with the BS from the Federation, but as Article 4 Section 2 State Citizens, they do still have to keep from accidentally killing people, and such things....
There are lots of people who think they know, and then there's people who actually Do Know, and I know people on both sides.....
I Know.
This is good data, of course on this thread I'm only speaking of the corrections necessary for tax purposes.
Beyond federation level we go to ultimate kingdom level. In 2008 Satan claimed de jure control over our government, long time coming. Removing him de jure from that is not easy. However, we Jesus people are each sovereigns, co-regents of the kingdom, so we already also retain greater rights to control the same government of the America de jure constituted in the year of our Lord 1787. That means we no longer fight him as an outsider but as an infiltrator, much harder because of collateral risk.
De facto control has been around a lot longer and is a matter of street-by-street warfare. It's not necessary for us to control everything de facto in order to complete our objectives but we have always taken strategic wins.
So "having the government obey the law" is always a demonstration event, and the general approach of appealing all the way to and past the Supremes is still correct. No appeal route is ever shut out because God's on top. If you can't afford a lawyer, study enough to write your own cert requests; if you feel totally shut out, you appeal to general conscience and peaceful civil disobedience. It's not our job to make our servant government obey, it's our job to demonstrate their disobedience sufficient for later discipline and correction.
The other several tracks of acting on sovereignty are important and TBF I'm less expert in them. Many status corrections are very helpful; becoming Amish has never been so appealing. The overarching key is that every awakened sovereign must take whatever steps are most fitting for the local situation, must deign to accept certain drawbacks because of noblesse oblige, the impropriety of calling out one's fellow sovereigns too early for allowing bad laws. This is why St. Paul says very encouragingly about all such situations, If you are able also to become free, rather do that (1 Cor. 7:21 NASB95).
So each sovereign gets the bracing daily challenge of responsibility for life and the realm, and that includes occasional management of the servant governments, or else blithe ignorance of their recent shenanigans because one has structured one's life such that their failures don't hurt one or one's realm. A few periods of intense management can do wonders for indefinite protection from certain failures. For many years I've concluded "what happens in that city doesn't affect me". When RB Cheney first announced that he had invoked Continuity of Government, I knew that part of that meant that nothing ever after could be trusted. (At c/Christianity we are accumulating people who had gotten advanced supernatural warning that something like that would happen at exactly that time.) Each person has the God-given responsibility to labor such that errors of government will never hurt them, and that labor will be rewarded and unexpected divine gifts also given (hint: Jesus is the answer).
That's the stuff that John Quade was talking about, made some videos on, and pushed to the forefront for a small bit of time....
I wish he had made more videos on it, and explained it better....