Don't stop filing if there is a credible allegation against you that you earned income. Either pay the tax on income you earned or demonstrate that the correct amount of income was insufficient to owe tax, but don't leave a credible allegation unanswered, because that would leave you open to others assessing you instead of you assessing yourself.
People are free to determine the point at which peaceful civil disobedience is justified. The nature of the income tax scheme is designed so that peaceful civil disobedience is usually not "justified" (in the sense that the tax is avoidable and "voluntary"), but the path of avoidance is deliberately so hidden so that the tax appears to be de facto tyrannical (in the sense that people fear it), leading many people to fall for the many strawmen and think they're being noble and revolutionary when they're just falling for something the law didn't say.
Jesus said to give taxes to whom they were due. That implies that you don't give taxes to whom they are not due. Withholding money that you can prove you don't owe is virtuous, but withholding money when the evidence is stacked against you for a slam-dunk proof that you do owe it is falling right into the scheme. It is necessary to prove that you don't owe it and to prove wrong those who state facts that logically would allow the inference that you do owe it.
Think about it. If you lived in a society where most of your interactions was interpreted by the state as proof of your treason, you'd want to document in most interactions a contemporaneous proof that they were not treason, for your own conscience's sake and especially if courts were still working. In this society (hint), when an information return is filed against you it often testifies that you earned income that flows into taxable income. If you earned taxable income, you should by law pay the tax, but if you didn't then you should document and prove that you didn't and that the allegation was false.
Don't stop filing if there is a credible allegation against you that you earned income. Either pay the tax on income you earned or demonstrate that the correct amount of income was insufficient to owe tax, but don't leave a credible allegation unanswered, because that would leave you open to others assessing you instead of you assessing yourself.
There would be no America if our founders and revolutionary soldiers took this advice. My advice is find some grit and stop funding evil.
People are free to determine the point at which peaceful civil disobedience is justified. The nature of the income tax scheme is designed so that peaceful civil disobedience is usually not "justified" (in the sense that the tax is avoidable and "voluntary"), but the path of avoidance is deliberately so hidden so that the tax appears to be de facto tyrannical (in the sense that people fear it), leading many people to fall for the many strawmen and think they're being noble and revolutionary when they're just falling for something the law didn't say.
Jesus said to give taxes to whom they were due. That implies that you don't give taxes to whom they are not due. Withholding money that you can prove you don't owe is virtuous, but withholding money when the evidence is stacked against you for a slam-dunk proof that you do owe it is falling right into the scheme. It is necessary to prove that you don't owe it and to prove wrong those who state facts that logically would allow the inference that you do owe it.
Think about it. If you lived in a society where most of your interactions was interpreted by the state as proof of your treason, you'd want to document in most interactions a contemporaneous proof that they were not treason, for your own conscience's sake and especially if courts were still working. In this society (hint), when an information return is filed against you it often testifies that you earned income that flows into taxable income. If you earned taxable income, you should by law pay the tax, but if you didn't then you should document and prove that you didn't and that the allegation was false.