This one is good. The tax protesters say that they don\u2019t have to file income taxes because it\u2019s a voluntary system. And they volunteer to NOT file taxes. Part of what fuels this misconception that taxes are voluntary is a Supreme Court decision which said “[o]ur system of taxation is based upon voluntary assessment and payment, not upon distraint.”<\/p>\n
Except that didn\u2019t mean that filing tax returns is optional. It means that it is mandatory for people to volunteer the information about their income and expenses. It means that people tell the IRS how much they made and therefore how much they\u2019re supposed to pay. This is done instead of the IRS coming in and initially telling taxpayers how much they are going to pay.<\/p>\n
So the bottom line is that filing a tax return is, in fact, mandatory. You don\u2019t get a choice.<\/p>\n
Incidentally, one guy got sentenced to 13 years in prison for promoting and selling this concept that taxes are voluntary. Royal Lamarr Hardy called his scheme the \u201cReliance Defense,\u201d and he also got tagged with a bill of almost $200,000 for restitution to the IRS for his nonsense.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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