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A defendant's good-faith belief that he is not required to file a tax return is a valid defense to the element of willfulness, and the belief need not be reasonable if actually held in good faith. It is not, however, within the prerogative of the taxpayer to make a personalized finding of constitutionality.
Tax resistance in the United States has been practiced at least since colonial times, and has played important parts in American history.. Tax resistance is the refusal to pay a tax, usually by means that bypass established legal norms, as a means of protest, nonviolent resistance, or conscientious objection.
Similarly, the word "deficiency" has more than one technical meaning under the Internal Revenue Code: one kind of "deficiency" for purposes of 26 U.S.C. § 6211 relating to statutory notices of deficiency, U.S. Tax Court cases, etc. (meaning, usually, the excess of the amount that the IRS claims is the correct tax over the amount the taxpayer ...
As part of tax day, here are 20 famous quips, complaints, and perspectives on the nation's tax code. 1. "This is too difficult for a mathematician. It takes a philosopher." -- Albert Einstein, on ...
Exclusive: Details of the first big demonstration faced by Keir Starmer’s government have been revealed as farmers prepare to descend on Westminster over the imposing of inheritance tax on ...
Some tax protesters have cited the U.S. Supreme Court case of Stratton's Independence, Ltd. v. Howbert [63] for the argument that an income tax on an individual's income is unconstitutional. This was an argument raised unsuccessfully by John B. Hill Jr., in Hill v. United States. [64] and without success by John B. Cameron Jr., in Cameron v.
Tax protester Sixteenth Amendment arguments are assertions that the imposition of the U.S. federal income tax is illegal because the Sixteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution, which reads "The Congress shall have power to lay and collect taxes on incomes, from whatever source derived, without apportionment among the several States, and without regard to any census or enumeration ...
[11] The key element was the reference to "tax revenue increases" now being up for negotiation. An immediate furor followed the release. The headline of the New York Post the next day read "Read my Lips: I Lied." [12] Initially some argued that "tax revenue increases" did not necessarily mean tax increases. For example, he could mean that the ...