It's "Tax Time"... Who/What is the IRS?

It's "Tax Time" again and I supposed I'll have to go through my box of receipts. You know, that box that never really gets filed. Throughout the years I have heard so many things about the IRS, so today I thought I'd surf the web and check out all I've heard.

This document answered some of my questions and I thought I should share it with you. I have listed links at the end of the posts. The author cites many documents that you can check yourselves. Then you can make the decision yourself on who or what the IRS really is. I just hope they don't come bursting through my doors.

Here are the questions that are posed. Are they questions that you may want answers to?

1. Is the Internal Revenue Service (“IRS”) an organization within the U.S. Department of the Treasury?

2. If not an organization within the US Department of the Treasury, then what exactly is the IRS?

3. By what legal authority, if any, has the IRS established offices inside the 50 States of the Union?

4. Can IRS legally show “Department of the Treasury” on their outgoing mail?

5. Does the U.S. Department of Justice have power of attorney to represent the IRS in federal court?

6. Were the so-called 14th and 16th amendments properly ratified?

7. Where are the statutes that create a specific liability for federal income taxes?

8. Can a federal regulation create a specific liability, when no specific liability is created by the corresponding statute?

9. The federal regulations create an income tax liability for what specific classes of people?

10. How many classes of citizens are there, and how did this number come to be?

11. Can one be a State Citizen, without also being a federal citizen?

12. Who was Frank Brushaber, and why was his U.S. Supreme Court case so important?

13. What is a “Withholding agent”?

14. What is a “Withholding Exemption Certificate”?

15. What is “tax evasion” and who might be guilty of this crime?

16. Why does IRS Form 1040 not require a Notary Public to notarize a taxpayer’s signature?

17. Does the term “United States” have multiple legal meanings and, if so, what are they?

18. Is the term “income” defined in the IRC and, if not, where is it defined?

19. What is municipal law, and are the IRC’s income tax provisions municipal law, or not?

20. What does it mean if my State is not mentioned in any of the federal income tax statutes?

21. In what other ways is the IRC deliberately vague, and what are the real implications for the average American?

22. Has Title 26 of the United States Code (“U.S.C.”) ever been enacted into positive law, and what are the legal implications if Title 26 has not been enacted into positive law?

23. What federal courts are authorized to prosecute income tax crimes?

24. Are federal judges required to pay income taxes on their pay, and what are the real implications if they do pay taxes on their pay?

25. Can federal grand juries issue valid indictments against illegal tax protesters?

26. Do IRS agents ever tamper with federal grand juries, and how is this routinely done?

27. What is “The Kickback Racket,” and where can I find evidence of its existence?

28. Can the IRS levy bank accounts without a valid court order?

29. Do federal income tax revenues pay for any government services and, if so, which government services are funded by federal income taxes?

30. How can the Freedom of Information Act (“FOIA”) help me to answer other key tax questions?

31. Where can I find more information, and still protect my privacy?

http://www.supremelaw.org/sls/31answers.htm

http://www.thelawthatneverwas.com/new/home.asp

This post is today's contribution to my search for knowledge.

Oh, and one more morsel of food for thought. When I was a supervisor, I had a clerk who just wasn't "clerk" material. She was a very nice person but you could tell she was not comfortable in the office. When I let her go, I sat with her for awhile talking. I wanted to see if she could be a fit in another department. She said she probably wouldn't because she had never worked in an office for any length of time. I asked her what she had done previously. She said she just quit her job as an IRS agent. She said she quit because of stress. She spent a number of years as a gun toting agent and she was always afraid she might have to use her gun. Did you know agents carried guns? Now, I'm scared.

Does tax collecting go too far? Check out this site for an old "almost impossible to get out of it" tax.

http://www.jewishworldreview.com/bob/greene110499.asp

A couple of hundred years later, they still think of ingenuous ways of sucking taxes out of us.

http://money.cnn.com/2005/02/18/pf/taxes/strangetaxesupdate/index.htm