Barter is one way to look at it, but that tries to exploit loopholes within the tax law itself.
The jist of the issue is that 1. all tax rules are unconstitutional because they are NOT laws, 2. all tax court actions are null and void because they are not a Constitutional court with any authority, and 3. IRS has fooled everyone so they don't understand that "labor capital" and "income" are indeed separate things as confirmed by at leas 6 SCOTUS cases [TDLR: you have to invest labor capital to get investment return on capital in the form of "income"]
IRS is exploiting Americans' financial and Constitutional ignorance created intentionally by the schools.
Barter is one way to look at it, but that tries to exploit loopholes within the tax law itself.
The jist of the issue is that 1. all tax rules are unconstitutional because they are NOT laws, 2. all tax court actions are null and void because they are not a Constitutional court with any authority, and 3. IRS has fooled everyone so they don't understand that "labor capital" and "income" are indeed separate things as confirmed by at leas 6 SCOTUS cases [TDLR: you have to invest labor capital to get investment return on capital in the form of "income"]
IRS is exploiting Americans' financial and Constitutional ignorance created intentionally by the schools.