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Misunderstanding The Internal Revenue Code Costs Americans Trillions Of Dollars Every Year

 

Understanding It Costs Only A Few Hours Of Reading.

 

   

For the last 64 years of its existence, the U. S. Internal Revenue Code has been ridiculed, feared and despised by virtually everyone.  And why not?  As presented by the Internal Revenue Service, the code appears illogical, inconsistent and incomprehensible.  As presented, the code defies practically the entire Bill of Rights– requiring citizens to testify against themselves, allowing searches and seizures without warrants, levying fines and penalties without trials and imposing a tax on the basic right to earn a living.  As presented, the IRC would appear to turn everything we all thought we had learned in grade school English and Civics on its head.

 

 Is it possible that we all just misunderstood those simple lessons?  Maybe.  But researcher, analyst and scholar Peter E. Hendrickson believes that after Cracking the Code, you’ll agree that what has been misunderstood is the 3,413,780 word monstrosity itself– and how, and to whom, it applies.

 

Hendrickson delves deep into the history, statutes and case law behind the Code to reveal its startling and liberating secrets; and unless you live in a cave, you need to know what he’s uncovered.

 

Once you’ve finished “Cracking the Code”, the tax laws will never mean the same thing to you, or your bank account, again!

Tens of thousands of readers of 'Cracking the Code- The Fascinating Truth About Taxation In America' have taken control of their own resources, in accordance with, and respect for, the law. Click here to see a few examples (well over a thousand, actually) of the complete, 100% refunds secured by these folks of all taxes taken from them under federal and state "income tax" provisions-- Social security and Medicare taxers included.

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What You Will Learn in ‘Cracking the Code’:

 

  • That the vast majority of the Internal Revenue Code (IRC) is not the law itself, but is only evidence-- a representation-- of the actual statutes in force, and like in the game of telephone, the real language has been a bit garbled in transmission.

  • That “income”, “wages”, “self-employment income”, “employee”, “employer” and “trade or business”-- as these and certain other terms are used within, and in regard to, the tax law-- have narrow legal meanings exclusively involving, and applying to, certain privileged activities, such as holding or administering a government office, or working in one.

  • That although the tax statutes make perfectly clear that, for instance, language describing the obligations of "employees"-- and the taxes to which "employees are subject-- only apply to a small minority of American workers, the distinction is artfully concealed in the IRC representation of the law, and is never forthrightly acknowledged in any IRS publication (although it is obliquely acknowledged whenever necessary for the avoidance of legal jeopardy).

  • That an elaborate system has been created which causes some people to whom the tax laws do not otherwise apply (maybe including you) to inadvertently declare themselves to be among the persons to whom those laws do apply.

"The revenue laws are a code or system in regulation of tax assessment and collection. They relate to taxpayers, and not to nontaxpayers. The latter are without their scope.”  United States Court of Claims, Economy Plumbing and Heating v. United States, 470 F.2d 585, at 589 (1972)

 

 Which One Are You?

 

The feds and thirty-four state governments have endlessly acknowledged that what is revealed about the law in 'Cracking the Code' is true!

 

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Because it deals largely with matters of law, let's start with lawyers who have studied the book...

 

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“Thanks again for your efforts, Pete. They mean an awful lot to a lot of people.” “…as an attorney, I am humbled by your knowledge and ability in navigating the law.  THANK YOU for your hard work and sacrifice.”

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"Thank you for writing "CtC"; it is most excellent, in quality of research, style and clarity.  I agree with you that this is the most important issue for the people of this nation.  I have recommended your book to all my compatriots in the fight against fraud."

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From the Foreword to 'Cracking the Code- The Fascinating Truth About Taxation In America':

 

It was not until the late 1990’s, when the Internal Revenue Code was digitized (and thus made searchable) that it became possible to decipher its deliberately confusing and misleading construction.  Only then could complete searches be done of all 3,413,780 or so words (not counting regulations) for every incidence of “liable”, “imposed”, “income”, “employee”, and dozens of other key or misleading terms-- checking every reference, exception, definition and source.  Only then could it be established that, as written, the laws behind the code and the taxes that they impose technically comply with the Constitution, just as all the judges have said over the years.

But the same analysis also reveals that, as written, these laws don’t apply to most of the receipts of most private citizens.  Indeed, the two things are interdependent-- the former couldn't be true unless the latter was also true.

 

What you will learn as you read this book is that specific Constitutional limitations on the federal government’s power to tax do shape related law, and have generated a coherent Supreme Court doctrine which clearly and soundly answers the question of what is taxable "income”.  Both the statutes and the doctrine acknowledge the exemption of the vast majority of private-sector receipts from that taxing power’s reach.

However, you will also learn about a complex combination of craft, routine bureaucratic incoherence, and casual-- and not-so-casual-- corruption by virtue of which many people are led to inadvertently allow, and even participate in, the legal transformation of their untaxable earnings into taxable "income”.  Such people are tricked into voluntarily and utterly unnecessarily enabling the diversion of a river of wealth from their own hands, usually never to be seen again.

 

Thanks to an unhappy coincidence of reiterations and amendments of the law, a series of complicated judicial rulings, and the passage of time and memories, the details of American tax law-- and the principles upon which it is based-- have come to be widely misunderstood.  The opportunities presented by that reality have been seized upon, by those paid to maximize revenue flow to the government, to successfully construct an elaborate and deceptive tax scheme rooted in today’s Internal Revenue Code.

This scheme capitalizes on widespread public ignorance of general legal doctrine and rules of statutory construction.  It  practices a careful gauging of extraction levels to the tolerance limits of key demographic segments.  It relies upon the concealment of the underlying actual-law-in-force behind the misleading words of the code, which is legally no more than ‘evidence of the law’, and not the law itself.

Fundamental to the scheme is designing that code to be so dauntingly and profoundly confusing as to force the vast majority of those against whom it’s directed to abandon even a pretense of personal comprehension.  These targets are thus compelled to surrender their decision-making to the code’s administrative bureaucracy or a professional class of fixers and go-betweens-- the members of either of which are dependent on the scheme for their own earnings.  Unsurprisingly, both assure any who ask that of course private-sector receipts are taxed under the law.  If pressed, these experts will trot out carefully selected, out-of-context and ambiguous fragments of law calculated to convincingly suggest that what they claim must be in the law, somewhere.  But somehow, they never manage to demonstrate exactly where.  ‘Cracking the Code’ is going to provide that missing context, unravel the tangle of deceit and confusion, and make clear that not only is it not in there anywhere, what is in there is just the opposite.

 

*****

 

“I don’t know what you mean by ‘glory’,” Alice said.

Humpty Dumpty smiled contemptuously. “Of course you don’t-- till I tell you. I meant ‘there’s a nice knock-down argument for you!’”

“But ‘glory’ doesn’t mean ‘a nice knock-down argument’,” Alice objected.

“When I use a word,” Humpty Dumpty said, in rather a scornful tone, “it means just what I choose it to mean-- neither more nor less.”

“The question is,” said Alice, “whether you can make words mean so many different things.”

“The question is,” said Humpty Dumpty, “which is to be master-- that’s all.”

 

Contents:

 Part One

(The Nature Of The Law)

 

About Taxes- Direct v. Indirect

 

The Origin Of The “Income” Tax

 

The Supreme Court And The Meaning Of “Income”

 

Regarding The Law And Its Virtues

 

The Plot Thickens

 

The Law Means What It Says

 

The Code Is Born

 

Withholding The Truth

 

Crafting A Trade Or Business Plan: A Guide For The Self-Employed

 

-Interlude-

 

 Part Two

(The Nature Of The Scheme)

 

“W” Is For Weapon

 

W-9’s And Other Alien Notions

 

Lies, Damned Lies, And W-2’s

 

W-4’s- The Blind Leading The Blind Down A Primrose Path

 

Feeding The Hand That Bites You

 

About 1040’s, And Claiming Refunds

 

Part Three

(The Nature Of The Crisis)

 

Why It Matters

 

Finale

 

Appendix

 

Selected Supplemental Observations And Expansions

 

A Letter From The Social Security Administration

 

A Lawful Direct Tax

 

A Note Regarding State Income Taxes

 

Form 1099 MISC

 

Form 4852

 

The Supreme Court On The Meaning Of 'Capitations'

 

A Guide To Additional Materials

 

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IRS And State Responses To Proper Claims For The Refund Of Money Improperly Withheld

 

 

Read 'Cracking the Code' and avoid the pitfalls of such expensive-- and possibly dangerous-- misunderstandings as:

  • That the income tax didn't exist, wasn't Constitutional, or was ruled unconstitutional, before the Sixteenth Amendment (or isn't Constitutional now).

  • That the Sixteenth Amendment, properly ratified or not, has anything to do with the income tax as it is administered in regard to most private-sector citizens.

  • That income only means corporate profits.

  • That "United States citizens and residents" can only get "taxable income" from certain listed "sources".

  • That filing a 1040 automatically makes one a "taxpayer".

  • That "wages" are not income under the revenue laws.

  • That FICA and FUTA taxes are not just income taxes.

  • That the "subject" of the income tax is never identified in the law.

  • That the income tax is connected with the 'Uniform Commercial Code'.

These fallacies, and many more, have arisen because most researchers, even when highly dedicated, make the mistake of looking no deeper than the misleading and legally irrelevant code.

(Click here for brief comments regarding some of these misunderstandings)

 

AFTER CRACKING THE CODE, YOU'LL UNDERSTAND THE REAL REASON WHY YOU ARE PRESUMED TO BE LIABLE FOR THE TAX, AND HOW TO SET THE RECORD STRAIGHT!

 

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“Knowledge will forever govern ignorance; and a people who mean to be their own governors must arm themselves with the power which knowledge gives.”

-James Madison

 

About The Author

 

Pete Hendrickson is possibly the most effective lawyer in history, even while never having set foot in a law school, nor ever being a card-carrying member of "the bar". He is the first American in history to secure a complete refund of Social Security and Medicare ‘contributions’ withheld from his earnings (along with all other property taken for federal taxes); further, since 2003 students of his legal analyses and arguments in ‘Cracking the Code- The Fascinating Truth About Taxation In America’ (CtC), and its sequel, 'Was Grandpa Really a Moron?' have been routinely retaining and recovering billions of dollars which otherwise-- wrongly, but as a matter of course-- would have gone to federal or state government treasuries. This despite concerted efforts by government to suppress his work, and in some cases vigorously oppose the claims by his students.

Hendrickson's business career has included nearly a decade-and-a-half at the leading edge of the renewable-energy industry, both as Director of Purchasing and Materials Management and member of the R&D board at Starpak Energy Systems, the mid-west's then-largest solar heating and energy-recovery-and re-utilization company; and as founder and president of AFJ Inc., a high-efficiency lighting design, manufacture and installation firm.

 

Beginning in the mid-1990s and continuing for the twelve years before his present full-time focus on the restoration of the rule of law in America, Hendrickson directed purchasing activities for the $84 million-a-year multi-family-housing division of the Farmington Hills, Michigan branch of Edward Rose and Sons, with responsibility for 18,000+ apartments, direct supervision of 35 technicians and agents, and incidental authority over several hundred divisional workers.  He also ran the division's 10 cable television earth-station and distribution systems in four states, and designed and administered the company's website.

 

On rather the other end of the spectrum, amidst these more mundane pursuits Hendrickson co-founded and was the primary creative force behind a small board- and card-game company that enjoyed a modest success for several years.

 

Hendrickson makes his home in southeast Michigan, with his wife and two children.  He is currently working on his next book.