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Supreme Court Tax Decisions

Question: Can someone show me the law that requires me to pay personal income tax?

The Supreme Court has struck down 2 attempts to levy a new tax on the people,and other than Tax Code and lower court decisions there is no actual law anywhere that I can find that requires me to pay for my labor.”A persons labor is his personal property” according to the Supreme Court.

Answer: Sure, no problem.

You can find the tax laws in section 26 of the U.S. Code:

http://www.law.cornell.edu/wex/index.php/Income_tax

http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/html/uscode26/usc_sup_01_26_10_A.html

http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/html/uscode26/usc_sec_26_00006012—-000-.html

http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/html/uscode26/usc_sec_26_00000001—-000-.html

http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/html/uscode26/usc_sec_26_00000003—-000-.html

http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/html/uscode26/usc_sec_26_00006651—-000-.html

Some “tax law deniers” will say that is not good enough and want to see the acts passed by congress. So here those are:

Revenue act of 1862:

http://www.reference.com/browse/wiki/Revenue_Act_of_1862

1894 Income Tax and the Wilson-Gorman Tariff Act:

http://law.enotes.com/major-acts-congress/income-tax-wilson-gorman-tariff-act

Revenue act of 1913:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Revenue_Act_of_1913

http://law.enotes.com/major-acts-congress/federal-income-tax

Internal Revenue Code of 1954:

http://law.enotes.com/major-acts-congress/internal-revenue-act

http://www.reference.com/browse/wiki/Internal_Revenue_Code_of_1954

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internal_Revenue_Code_of_1954

Tax reform act of 1986:

http://www.answers.com/topic/tax-reform-act-of-1986

http://law.enotes.com/major-acts-congress/tax-reform-act

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tax_Reform_Act_of_1986

I’ve seen a lot of claims in answers.yahoo.com about a supreme court decision like the one you describe. But so far I have not seen an authoritative citation.

May I suggest that you reserve the supreme court case you are citing and present your findings in a new Question?

For more detail on some of other income tax arguments, see:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tax_protester_constitutional_arguments

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tax_protester_statutory_arguments

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tax_protester_conspiracy_arguments

MPP’s Aaron Houston on Russia Today 05/19/2009