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A tax protester is someone who refuses to pay a tax claiming that the tax laws are unconstitutional or otherwise invalid. Tax protesters are different from tax resisters, who refuse to pay taxes as a protest against a government or its policies, or a moral opposition to taxation in general, not out of a belief that the tax law itself is invalid ...
Tax protester arguments are arguments made by people, primarily in the United States, who contend that tax laws are unconstitutional or otherwise invalid. Tax protester arguments are typically based on an asserted belief that their government is acting outside of its legal authority when imposing such taxes.
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 ...
"There is a group of folks who are known as tax protesters, where they basically don't pay their taxes, and every time they go to court, they say taxes are unconstitutional," Kling said. "And they ...
This false choice is a creature of Powers' tax protester ideology, not the laws of this Republic." [34] Similarly, in 2008 the United States Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit rejected a taxpayer's argument that gains of an individual's labor could be taxed only if the gains were received from a "federal venue". In that case, the taxpayer's ...
(1) shall not designate taxpayers as illegal tax protesters (or any similar designation); and (2) in the case of any such designation made on or before the date of the enactment of this Act [i.e., made on or before July 22, 1998]-- (A) shall remove such designation from the individual master file; and
Linda Upham-Bornstein's "Mr. Taxpayer versus Mr. Tax Spender" delivers an evenhanded view of American tax resistance movements.
The Tea Party protests of 2009 were in part a protest against high taxes (in addition to the allusion to the Boston Tea Party, the name was supposed to stand for "Taxed Enough Already"). Code Pink even reached out across the ideological aisle to try to find some common ground. [85] Tax resistance is used in smaller-scale struggles as well.