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Current Events and Continuing Education for January 4 through January 17, 2015
“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
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Features in this edition: (Click on the underlined text to jump to each feature. To return, use your browser's "back" button. Please keep in mind that many more items of interest are to be found between featured articles, so your most profitable course is to scroll through the whole page...) Continued denial of CtC is, frankly, insane and irresponsponsible More Victories For The Rule Of Law *** "Is it real butter?" "It's yellow..." *** Time, unfortunately, is on the side of the liars, therefore: Media Evasion Of CtC Must End, Now *** This week's recommended reading: Just Say No to GPS Tracking of American Cars and Trucks *** The feds are caught in another lie; justice is blind- no, really; more... *** Step up and do your part to *** The most important question facing Americans today: What Do The People Do About The Rogue State? *** Guess what? There are only two possibilities: You Either Stand Up For The Truth, Or You've Surrendered To The Lie *** Spotlights on the past that help bring clarity to the present: Illuminating Anniversaries for this week *** Got something to say? ***
My interview by Lana Lotkeff for Radio 3Fourteen can be found here.
The Fourteenth Edition of CtC is Now Available! Get The Short, Easy Intro To The Liberating Truth About The Tax
Click here for the current Mid-Edition Update posts Featured In This Update: Still More Victories For The Rule Of Law *** On Frivolous Dodges And Filing Lawsuits *** Why So Many CyberSecurity Firms Parroted The State About North Korea *** Why Are You Not Doing This? *** Project Paradigm-Shift *** Test Your "Income" Tax IQ! *** A "Pragmatic" Perspective On The Tax And The Rule Of Law *** Your Comments *** |
"There are two distinct classes of men...those who pay taxes and those who receive and live upon taxes."
- Thomas Paine
C'mon! CtC can't be right! You're crazy!
If CtC were actually right,
it would mean the government's been concealing and denying the truth for years on end,
and everybody knows THAT would never happen...
(Edward Snowden, come home! It was all just a bad dream; there really is No Such Agency!)
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Do you know someone truly steeped in the Kool-Aid?
I mean someone who finds it easier to believe that the far-better-educated, far-more-suspicious-of-government Americans of a hundred years ago were complete morons who granted authority to the state to take whatever it wished from themselves and their posterity than to imagine that they themselves simply misunderstand the true nature of the income tax? Even while knowing that their beliefs about the tax are derived entirely from the representations of those who profit from those beliefs (like tax bureaucrats and "tax professionals")?
Do you know someone like that? Shake them awake with the latest (fourteenth) edition of CtC!
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More Victories For The Rule Of Law Continued denial of CtC is, to put it bluntly, insane. Worse, it is harmful to liberty. THE MOST RECENT VICTORY POSTED ON THESE PAGES BEFORE TODAY is a $39,126.29 refund issued on October 3, 2014. This refund was in response to an amended return correcting an original for 2010 in which more than $73,000 of routine earnings were mistakenly declared to be "income", and a tax of more than $34,000 was mistakenly "self-assessed", in exactly the fashion into which far too many Americans have been misled over the last 75 years. The amended return-- which was accompanied by a straightforward cover letter explaining just what was being done-- corrected those numbers to $0s, and asked for a refund of the $34,850 paid-in as tax. Five months later, after some fussing and the diversion of some of the reclaimed money to what the IRS says was an outstanding balance of $772.84 for 2012, the CtC-educated American making this claim got his money back, with $3,428.61 in interest. This stark $39K+ acknowledgement by the IRS of the correctness of CtC issued nearly eleven years to the day since the first such complete refund was issued in response to a CtC-educated filing, between which have been hundreds of thousands of others totaling billions of dollars steadily issued over that entire period after careful scrutiny by the tax agencies, and not just by the IRS but by dozens of state tax agencies as well (see about a thousand examples here). Some of these have even issued only after strenuous efforts to resist them by the tax agency involved. During the entirety of this more-than-a-decade of massive and sustained acknowledgement, the government issuing most of these refunds has been engaged in a corrupt propaganda and disinformation campaign aimed at discouraging Americans from learning what has allowed all these folks to do all these astonishing things. The character of this campaign-- which even just a slightly-more-than-cursory examination reveals to be a series of hoaxes, frauds, evasions and the occasional outright attack on the integrity of the legal structure-- is itself a revelation and an emphasis of the truth it is designed to suppress. AND YET, DESPITE ALL THE FOREGOING, there is ZERO media attention to CtC. Your average CPA knows nothing of it, or only what was read on some IRS or DOJ press release calculated to dis-inform. Your average attorney, tax specialist or otherwise, knows nothing of CtC, or the wide-ranging legal research and resources presented here. I'm going to open this new year with some more victories, because it's a good note on which to launch 2015, and an especially good note on which to launch the start of another season of lies and truth. W-2s and 1099s are being prepared for littering the landscape by the end of the month, and everyone should be getting themselves in the groove for meeting that dark blizzard with a million points of light. But before I present the heroes being honored here today, let me stay with that "million points of light" motif for a moment and urge you all to do what you can to see that every journalist, CPA and attorney-- as well as your friends, neighbors, and kin-- sees everything I wrote above about CtC before the month is out. Our battalion needs to become an army, and that's how it's done, and it really needs to be done without further delay (as I discuss in some detail in the article elsewhere on this page titled, 'Media Evasion Of CtC Must End, Now'). Meet Some Real American Heroes These are folks who have gone into battle on behalf of YOUR rule of law-- without any big support structure, without any parades and pomp, and sometimes with no meaningful gain to themselves other than the satisfaction of knowing they've done the right thing in a good cause. Celebrate them, and tell your children: "This is what true patriots do!" Paul and Dorene Eberle
This camera-shot (and thus cropped) $31,488.67 check is a complete refund of all amounts withheld from Paul and Dorene during 2013 as federal income taxes, including nominal "federal income tax withheld", "Social security tax" and "Medicare tax", plus a bit of interest. Steven
This September, 2014 complete refund for 2012 resulted from this educated filing. Rebecca
Not a lot of money, but everything withheld from Rebecca during 2013... Karen Stobbe
This is everything withheld from Karen and given over to Michigan during 2013. HATS OFF TO THESE HEROES, MY FRIENDS! It is with grown-ups like these, who learn the law and stand up for it, that the rot stops and the restoration of the republic commences. Raspberries, and worse, for those who persist in denial. They are plain crazy. Worse, CtC deniers are dangerously irresponsible. They are enablers of today's unbridled State through their effective endorsement of rank historical falsehoods about the purpose, meaning and effect of the Sixteenth Amendment and the taxing clauses of the US Constitution. Shame on every one of them. Care to post a comment on this article? Set a brushfire-- E-mail this newsletter to a friend Did you miss the 'Set Your Church Free' commentaries? Ignorance of the true nature of the "income" tax has gagged, gutted and seduced-into-disgrace America's ministerial community. This must change.
The Great Deception, Part II "Is it real butter?" "It's yellow..." IN LAST WEEK'S CLOSE-OF-YEAR COMMENTARY, THE GREAT DECEPTION, I discuss, describe and illustrate the reliance of the enemies of liberty and the rule of law upon misunderstandings and fear in their campaign to disarm the American people against their predations. Today I want to touch a bit on some of the internal cognitive dynamics that either allow the campaign to succeed, or stop it in its tracks. Regarding the cognitive dynamics that support the Statists' predations, I will address two: Awe and the appeal to the hind-brain; and the vulgarization of expectations. As to the first, I'm sure everyone remembers the illusory "Oz, the Great and Powerful" created by the charlatan wizard in the classic film The Wizard of Oz: A huge, flaming head accompanied by a thunderous voice, high and remote in the splendor of a mighty hall, all calculated to overawe the observer and replace the rational, skeptical mind with the vulnerable irrational and reactive sub-mind.The enemies of the law definitely rely upon the puffed-feather ploy to shut down the fore-brain and drive the target back to more primitive perspectives. That's what all the pomp and circumstance is for-- the grossly-oversized motorcades; the absurdly over-the-top security; the black robes and high seats; and all the other trappings of those who hope to be un-resisted in their exercise of power. This practice of theatrical drama imbues the State with a divine aura in the eyes of many, making debate and justification of desired lawless practices unnecessary for those folks. Overawed Americans residing in their hind-brains take the righteousness of whatever is done by the Great and Powerful Oz as a given-- the only operating principle in their eyes is that the word of the State is self-validating. These are the folks to whom Nixon spoke when he said, "If the president does it, then it's legal." But many other Americans are not so thoroughly conditioned or weak of mind. For them, there's another ploy used by the enemies of principle. This one might be described as the vulgarization of expectations. What I mean by the vulgarization of expectations is the calculated disparagement and dismissal of commitment to principle, as though such commitment is childish and unrealistic. This is the fallacy animating the idiotic declaration, "The Constitution is not a suicide pact!" and others of the same sort which litter American history whenever State operators want to do something they are prohibited from doing. A good example of this cheap Statist-serving sophistry is the use of the "Constitution is not a suicide pact!" line to defend conscription (by the Supreme Court in Kennedy v. Mendoza-Matrinez, 372 U.S. 144 (1963)) despite conscription being nowhere authorized by the Constitution, and being directly in conflict with what is found therein. As always in such cases, no ink is shed regarding the obvious fact that were America to actually be demonstrably in grave and imminent danger requiring a military response for her security, no draft would ever be needed, while if a draft IS needed to get Americans to turn out, the allegation of threat is plainly not well-supported. This is because the object here is not to plug an actual leak in the Constitutional shield-wall, but only to excuse a lawless act by the State. Broadly put, this vulgarization of expectation implies that only a naive fool would really believe that adherence to principle is even a viable course of action in the real world, much less a desirable one. Under the sway of this cynicism, Constitutional prohibitions-- indeed, all laws-- become merely suggestions, or, at best, aspirations. "No search or seizure without a warrant supported by sworn evidence of probable cause? Well, sure, whenever possible..." (see more on this here). "No "taking" except for actual public use (as opposed to re-designated private use by which the local government captures more taxes)? A fine idea, but it would tie our hands and prevent us from properly serving the people..." "Prohibition on torture? Well, of course no one wants to torture, but what if there's a ticking bomb to be found?" "All powers not delegated are reserved? A lovely principle, and we honor it religiously. It's just that in not taking the rest of the Constitution quite so rigidly as a naive utopian might think we ought to, we find, interestingly, that there is precious little that has not been delegated to us, after all." The vulgarization of expectations cognitive regime is the regime of the "living law". Principle, after all, is rigid and unyielding. When we are persuaded to view adherence to principle as unrealistic we are inevitably persuaded to view the law as "flexible", by which is meant, "the law has whatever meaning serves the interests of those wielding it." Since the interests of those wielding the law tend to be the interests of those who pay to put them in office, or those of the largest mob, the end result of the vulgarization of expectation is to pervert "the law" into merely the tool of the wealthy or the demagogue. Clearly, we must resist the vulgarization effort and be champions of unyielding principle. The law only serves its true and critically-important purpose when it is predictable and properly-grounded. Happily, even when it has taken root in others, vulgarization and its evil effects can be defeated by individuals, one by one. For an illustration of how the vulgarization is overcome, and a wrap-up of this two-part discussion of the assault on the Constitution, I invite you to click on the image of Rilian and the Serpent, below. What you will read there is simple, but of course, this is, all-in-all, a simple issue. The law either means what it says, and says what it means, or it means nothing. Simple.
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Media Evasion Of CtC Must End, Now Time, unfortunately, is on the side of the well-funded disinformation specialists OVER THE YEARS, I HAVE DEMONSTRATED FAR BEYOND RATIONAL DOUBT OR HONEST DISPUTE that for the last 75 years the income tax has been systematically mis-administered so as to capture far more revenue and from far more earners than it should and would were its actual statutory limits more broadly understood. I have further shown that this is not because of some quirk in the law being exploited by the IRS but solely because of the ignorance of the Americans to whom it ends up being misapplied. People's ignorance is certainly being exploited by the IRS, of course. But as written, and as interpreted by the courts and the tax agency itself, the law is perfectly clear and entirely on the side of most Americans. Even while corrupt elements in the government have engaged in strenuous efforts to create a facade of opposition to what CtC reveals and thus shore up the ignorance regime (such as is exposed here, here, here, here and here), and even while some folks are unfortunately targeted for annoying and sometimes protracted resistance to their claims before they are honored, nearly every person who simply learns how to stop the tax from being misapplied in his or her own case and acts accordingly has been enjoying proper acknowledgement and capitulation to the truth by federal and state tax agencies since 2003. At the same time, I've also plainly shown that the collapse of the rule of law and metastasizing of the rogue State now threatening the well-being of every American (and possibly the entire world) coincides with, and results directly and exclusively from, the onset of the mis-application of the income tax in the early 1940s. In short, I've shown the nature of the problem about which every non-state-coopted pundit steadily warns, and the nature of the solution to that problem. What's more, I introduce, highlight, and celebrate the tens of thousands of other American men and women who have also learned these facts and are leading the way down the only path to that solution. NEARLY EVERY WEEK FOR NINE YEARS, I have shared my posts about all these things with all of you. For the last three years, I have copied those folks in the (purportedly) non-state-coopted media whose email addresses I believe I have. At the same time, week after week the well-financed and much more influential enemies of the state-restraining, liberty-enhancing truth have steadily injected more and more noise into the ether in an attempt to drown out my signal. This means that the window of opportunity in which the liberating truth has a realistic chance to do its good work-- which it can only do by becoming widely known-- is finite and narrowing. And yet every week the acknowledgements and desperately-needed signal-amplification offered by the purportedly-non-coopted media amount to... nada. Zero, zilch, radio silence. This won't do. It also makes no sense-- unless my emails to these folks simply aren't getting through. There are several reasons why my emails may not be making it. Some are as mundane as the possibility that they are being spam-filtered away from these folks' inboxes. It is known to me that, for instance, anyone on a pacbell, swbell or optonline server won't receive my emails-- these servers systematically (and apparently automatically, for reasons known only to their programmers) reject my emails as spam. There may be others that do the same without doing bounce-backs to me to let me know. Then there are darker possibilities. As was posted here a few months ago in a letter from an educated American who works for the City of Los Angeles, while no other websites that might be described as "outside the box" are known to be so treated, access to losthorizons.com is blocked on the city's internet-capable computers. Wikipedia won't allow links to documents posted on losthorizons.com. Recent additions to the ongoing treasure-trove of revelations from the heroic Edward Snowden have awakened us all to the possibility of other knobblings of the same sort on a grander scale. It's also possible that some of these folks may simply have closed their own minds. IN RESPONSE TO THIS PROBLEM, I am going to ask for everyone's help. Following is a short list of publicly-available alt-media-pundit email addresses which I have accumulated. Because my emails do not seem to be making it through to these folks, I'd be grateful if you were to see if yours do. Compose your own thoughtful, courteous but plain-spoken entreaties and admonishments to these folks making clear to them that patriotic, activist and educated Americans are wondering why they are not contributing their voices on the side of the angels in this critically-important contest between State-serving myths and corruption and the liberating truth. Forward my emails to them, as well. EXPECT RESISTANCE FROM THESE FOLKS! All of them are likely to think they already know all about the income tax, and will have opinions based on either some theories of their own or from the "tax honesty" community. Or they will be standard victims of "ignorance tax" mythologies. These folks are also likely to imagine that they're just being told about another version of Irwin Schiff. Some will even reflexively resort to the troll sites and other noise generators maintained by the IRS and DOJ on the internet and fall prey to the fallacious notion that since I have been attacked by the government what I say must somehow be wrong, despite all the unambiguous evidence to the contrary. (This is as crazy as concluding that because John Kirkiaou and Chelsea Manning are in prison, and the government is salivating over the prospect of getting its prosecutorial hands on Edward Snowden and Julian Assange and Kangarooing them in as well, all the state crimes these folks revealed must not really have happened. But believe it or not, people can be that thoroughly conditioned to worship the State.) None of these folks will know a tenth of what you know about the tax. None of them will know a hundredth of what you know about CtC, its history, and the ferocious campaign to keep people like them from knowing the truth about it. For one reason or another, I am unable to deal with this problem myself; your help will be greatly appreciated and may do much good. The email addresses are all offered with disabling formatting to protect against abuse from spiders, so to use them, please replace the "at" with @. By the by, if you have any other addresses of the same sort, please share them with me for addition to this list. (For instance, I have long sought an address for Paul Craig Roberts, whose work I esteem, and who seems to me a very likely ally in this fight, but who I am unable to contact, even through his website "contact form".) Glenn Greenwald- glenn.greenwald"at"theintercept.org Lew Rockwell- lew"at"lewrockwell.com Tom Woods- woods"at"mises.org Thomas DiLorenzo- TDilo"at"aol.com Jacob Hornberger- jhornberger"at"fff.org Will Grigg- wngrigg"at"msn.com Chuck Baldwin- chuck"at"chuckbaldwinlive.com John Whitehead- johnw"at"rutherford.org William Anderson- anderwl"at"prodigy.net Justin Raimondo- justin"at"antiwar.com Karen Kwiatkowski- ksusiek"at"shentel.net Paul Rosenberg- p.rosenberg"at"cryptohippie.com Tom Englehardt- tomdispatch"at"yahoo.com Care to post a comment on this article? Set a brushfire-- E-mail this newsletter to a friend
Are You Having Trouble Spreading The Word? SKEPTICISM (SOMETIMES INVOKED BY FEAR) IS TO BE EXPECTED when you're trying to explain to someone that everything they've been encouraged their whole lives to believe about something as entrenched and significant as the income tax is basically nonsense. So here's a way to help cut through the resistance: Ask your listener how he or she would react if you were to show an announcement from the Commissioner of Internal Revenue admitting that the tax doesn't apply to the earnings of most Americans and is misapplied most of the time because people don't understand how it works? Or how about if you showed a ruling from the Supreme Court saying the same? Now you just have to explain that you're going to show exactly those things-- but because the state really doesn't want people to know this, these things haven't been said quite as forthrightly as we would all wish. It's going to take a bit more work to take these admissions in than is sufficient for just reading a press release. But it'll be worth the effort...
***** A New Book On The Truth About The Tax TOM BOTTARO, ChFC, HAS JUST PUBLISHED 'SECRETS of the Income Tax Code- What the IRS doesn't want you to know!' Tom's book is a nice, accessible drill-down on several key aspects of the tax. Find it here. Find many other printables and sharables suited to every different occasion and purpose here.
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A teacher asked
her 6th grade class how many of them were fans of Big Government.
Real Americans don't accommodate fog, lies and a sliding scale of adherence to the rule of law. Real American men and women stand up for the truth and the law, come what may, knowing that it is only by setting the bar at the top and enforcing it, come what may, that liberties are secured.
"Heaven knows how to put a proper price upon its goods; and it would be strange indeed if so celestial an article as freedom should not be highly rated." -Thomas Paine
OUTREACH!!! JOB ONE, PEOPLE!!! SPREAD. THE. WORD. ONLY ONE THING WILL WIN YOU YOUR LIBERTY: Spreading the truth. Accordingly, I've assembled outreach resources into a new, dedicated page. Find it here, and please, USE THESE TOOLS!! I can't do this all by myself. This Week's Outreach Bon Mot: Collecting an excise is no more an "exercise of sovereignty"-- which is to say, no more special, and no more entitled to special advantages under the law-- than is charging parade-watchers for the use of your restaurant's bathroom. "In a time of universal deceit - telling the truth is a revolutionary act." -George Orwell Care to post a comment on this article? Set a brushfire-- E-mail this newsletter to a friend ***** A Graphical Contest A picture is worth a thousand words... I'VE GOT A CHALLENGE FOR ALL THE GRAPHIC ARTISTS OUT THERE! Due to the success of the "ignorance tax" scam, a simple dynamic is in place in America: Wealth is extracted from the millions taken in by the scam and moved into the US Treasury. From there it is doled out under one federal program or another to clients and cronies of the state-- the military-industrial complex; industries capitalizing on the massive welfare state apparatus; big agribusiness; the banksters; big education/indoctrination; prison industries; etc. These beneficiaries of the tax scam then send back a dribble of the pelf to support and retain in office the political hacks who support and maintain the programs under which all that money goes into motion (which is still a very big dribble, since the pelf is doled out in torrential volumes, and a tiny fraction of that torrent is still a lot of money). WHAT I'M ASKING YOU ARTISTS AND POWER-POINTERS AND VIDEOGRAPHERS FOR is your best effort at a graphical representation of this pathology, and then of the effect of cutting off the funding at the source-- that is, the effect of widespread understanding of the truth about the tax-- the later part of which would be best represented in stages for maximum illustrative value. This could be a series of four or five .jpg images (one illustrating the dynamic as it now is, and then several showing the effect of cutting off say, 10% of the funding coming out of the peoples' pockets, then 30%, then 60%, then ending at the 20% or so that actually will be left when everyone once again accurately understands the tax). Or, it could be a video animation; or a Power-Point. Give it your best shot, folks! Don't be shy. I know that there are some very talented folks out there, and your effort on this project will be most appreciated and very useful to the cause. Send your submissions to me as soon as you put them together. I'm not putting a "due date" on this contest, but the sooner submissions come in, the sooner I'll be able to put them to work helping open minds and hearts to the truth, and why it's so important. Care to post a comment on this article? Set a brushfire-- E-mail this newsletter to a friend *****
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Some Observations Regarding Educated And Accurate Filing BASED ON MY OWN READING OF THE RELEVANT LAWS AND RULES, my own experience, and my own observations, I have come to the following conclusions. They may or may not have relevance to any particular person's situation, and of course everyone should make their own studies and come to their own conclusions. They are presented in no particular order, and I suggest everyone read through them all. 1. If "information returns" by a payer make what are believed to be erroneous allegations of the payment of "wages", "non-employee-compensation" or other revenue purportedly in connection with the conduct of an "income-taxable" activity, a filing intended to be true, complete and correct would seek to rebut the erroneous allegations and provide what the filer believes to be the correct amounts. This might be done by, for instance: A. Attaching sworn statements specifically rebutting the errors on those forms with correct entries to one's 1040. Examples are Forms 4852 (to rebut and replace errant W-2s or 1099-Rs), or photocopies of errant original 1099-MISCs (or any other type of 1099 other than the 1099-R) with correct information replacing incorrect entries, and a sworn statement added declaring the instrument to be a rebuttal of an erroneous 1099-(xx) known to have been submitted by the listed payer. and... B. Using the rebuttal instruments as replacements for the erroneous "information returns" and the correct information from the rebutting instruments to complete one's 1040. For instance, if one has received erroneous W-2s and has created a rebutting 4852, where a 1040 asks for "wages received" and says to attach a W-2, one would declare the "wage" entry from line 7(a) of the 4852, and attach that form instead of the erroneous W-2. Instruments rebutting erroneous 1099s (other than 1099-Rs) are attached to the return by themselves-- that is, not with some kind of schedule-- unless one really IS operating some kind of tax-relevant business or other activity, and one is acknowledging having had SOME "trade or business" "income", but just a different amount than what was reported on the erroneous 1099. • If one engaged in no tax-relevant activities during the year there are likely no schedules that are appropriate for one's filing (unless, I suppose, one has something being carried over from a previous year in which something taxable WAS done...). • If erroneous forms were included with a filing in which those erroneous forms are rebutted it would cause a contradiction in entries and make the return invalid and "frivolous", since everything included with a return is presumed to be attested to as correct by the filer. • Failing to combine all amounts withheld as or for any kind of federal tax as a single figure on the line designated for "Federal income tax withheld", and/or failing to include and claim back any withheld amount while claiming back other amounts, is to create an apparent contradiction. For instance, to report $0 "wages" and claim back amounts listed as withheld on a W-2 or 4852 as nominal "federal income tax" but to not also claim back amounts withheld as "Social Security tax" and "Medicare tax" would be to declare oneself to have not received "wages" as defined in 26 USC 3401(a) but to HAVE received 'wages" as defined in 3121(a). Since both designations of "wages" refer to the same receipts and activities which produce them (with the latter being merely a surtax on a portion of the former) the declarations are contradictory of each other. The same contradiction would arise if one listed anything as "Excess social security and tier 1 RRTA tax withheld", while denying having received 3121(a) "wages". One can only have "excess SS tax withheld" if one has had "SS tax" properly withheld up to the amount at which anything further becomes "excess". 2. A return is NOT an appropriate document for making legal arguments of any kind. To include a cover letter explaining what is seen in the return (such as that erroneous "information returns" have been rebutted with instruments completed and attached for that purpose) does no harm, but this is neither the time nor the place to be making assertions about whether one is or isn't an "employee", arguments about the nature of the tax, and so forth. A return is just a statement of the amounts one knows and believes to be true, complete and correct in regard to each item inquired-about on the 1040, properly-understood as to its statutory meaning. It's neither a soap-box nor a legal brief; further, some kinds of arguments can actually invite a "frivolous" assertion. 3. Amounts improperly or erroneously collected, withheld, paid-in, what-have-you can only be claimed for refund looking back three years. On the other hand, rebuttals/corrections of erroneous assertions for their own sake, or as a response to collections efforts based on erroneous information returns, have no look-back limit. Learn more about both issues here. 4. Returns varying from (or attempting to supplement) the principles and points listed here, and/or reflecting notions not presented in CtC or on this site (exclusive of forum pages)-- such as adding "UCC" references to jurats, or otherwise marking-up or adding-to a return-- invite problems. I believe such variations are sometimes seen as reflecting an uncertainty (and therefore an insincerity) about one's filing, which can create a pretext for treating a return as "frivolous" and invalid. They also make one appear to be a soft target for harassment, ill-equipped to stand one's ground and deal competently with pushback, which is therefore more likely to be attempted. 5. Most all of the above has long been posted amongst much other useful material on the FAQ pages. Make a point of staying up to date with those pages, and everything linked from the Site Map!! Care to post a comment on this article?
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More Than Two Thirds Of The Several States That Collect "Income" Taxes Have Now Acknowledged The Truth About The Law As Revealed In CtC, And Have Issued Complete Refunds Accordingly! See The Following Chart...
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HELP SPREAD THE LIBERATING TRUTH ABOUT THE TAX “All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed, second it is violently opposed, and third, it is accepted as self-evident.” -Arthur Schopenhauer
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Warrior David Larson shares this beautiful little farce, wryly observing that, "Depositors have "..not lost one penny.." - OK we could agree on that simple statement ..how about the purchasing power of that same penny 'not lost'?"
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Last Word
"If ye love wealth greater than liberty, the tranquility of servitude greater than the animating contest for freedom, go home from us in peace. We seek not your counsel, nor your arms. Crouch down and lick the hand that feeds you. May your chains set lightly upon you; and may posterity forget that ye were our countrymen." -Samuel Adams, Architect of the First American Revolution
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