From The Boston Channel:
Feds To Court: Seize Tax Evader’s Property
Jury Says Couple Must Forfeit Property
“Federal prosecutors are asking a court to seize the property of two convicted tax evaders.
Prosecutors filed papers last week to begin taking the property. A jury last month told Elaine and Ed Brown they must forfeit at least $215,000 in property.
The Browns were convicted last month of failing to pay taxes on almost $2 million in income and engaging in elaborate schemes to hide it. A jury also ordered the couple to turn over their Plainfield home or Elaine Brown’s Lebanon dental office.
Ed Brown stopped attending the week-long trial halfway through. Since then, he has been holed up in the couple’s fortress-like home.
Elaine Brown, who earned most of the couple’s income, attended most of the trial. She remains free on bail and is staying with her son in Worcester, Mass., and is required to wear an electronic monitoring bracelet.”
For those of you unfamiliar with Ed Brown’s story, see my original blog post on him here.
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Tony, you are simply a brainwashed drone who is incapable of thinking for himself. Taxation is theft period. Now if want to argue that armed robbery is OK as long as you agree with what the robber will do with the money, that is another subject entirely.
As far as your straw man argument about you thinking it is OK to run red lights and sell coke to school children, well, there you are infringing on other people’s rights and you do not have a leg to stand on. Your comments on this subject show you to be shallow, not very bright and that you are willing to bow down and lick the hand that feeds you. You have no grasp on the history of this country, taxation, freedom, liberty, responsibility, in short, you are no more than around the 8th grade level in your thinking. You are an fine example of how this country lost its way.
As for you fools who think you can change anything by voting, look where that has got us.
The government, I would expect nothing less from you and your jack booted thugs. You may like your chains and enjoy being a slave, but most of us do not. According to you, you are sane if you agree with invading countries, not being able to own property, giving your master 50% of your earnings, being required to jump through multiple government hoops to do just about anything more than breathe, oh yea, that’s real freedom there boy.
4eyed, your ignorance is really showing through loud and clear, as is your public school education. Your premise is flawed from the beginning and all of your nonsense flows from there. Elected leaders made the laws with the consent of the governed. Really? How can you say that when elections draw less than 50% of the people? The winning candidate get maybe 50 – 60% of 50%, which is 25% of the people at best. Factor in that even the people that voted for the winning candidate do not agree with most of the policies the candidate favors, they most likely voted for him/her because they felt this person was the lesser of two evils and you can hardly call that a mandate or claim anything is done with the consent of the governed.That argumetn is straight out of a 4th grade civics book.
Vote Ron Paul 2008 and say goodbye to the income tax and hello to freedom!
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There is a law. Does it apply to YOU ???
What is the difference between a word and a term ???
Take “income”. Look it up in the dictonary to find its meaning. Then look it up in the IRS Codes and find out its meaning there.
This is law. Every thing must be defined in the law if its meaning is different then in the dictonary. A word defined specifically in law is no longer a word it becomes a term.
Read Pete Hendricksons book, Cracking the Code
oh, here is the law. Nobody here really knew where or what the law is…
There IS “A Law”, And This Is How It Works
There is a tax imposed on “income” received in excess of the current exemption amount, as measured by the dollar value involved.
There is also a law saying that anyone who has met the foregoing qualification must file an accurate and honest return– with any appropriate accompanying forms or instruments– reflecting this fact (and anyone who has been erroneously alleged to have met that qualification must rebut that allegation on an honest and accurate return– with any appropriate accompanying forms or instruments– or have it presumed true by default).
Part of the process involved in executing an accurate and honest return includes self-assessment (thus possibly creating a liability) and remittance of the resulting amount of tax (if any).
It’s that simple.
See the following portions of The Revenue Act of 1938 (the last enactment concerning the tax prior to the codification under the IRC of 1939), for example. The rates, and various other aspects of the tax, have periodically been modified by individual enactments ever since. The product of the various enactments and modifications of the following are currently reflected in Sections 1, 61, 63, 6001, 6011(a), 6012(a) and 6065 of the IRC of 1986:
AN ACT
To provide revenue, equalize taxation, and for other purposes.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That this Act, divided into titles and sections according to the following Table or Contents, may be cited as the “Revenue Act of 1938″:
SEC. 11. NORMAL TAX ON INDIVIDUALS.
There shall be levied, collected, and paid for each taxable year upon the net income of every individual a normal tax of 4 per centum of the amount of the net income in excess of the credits against net income provided in section 25.
SEC. 12. SURTAX ON INDIVIDUALS.
(a) DEFINITION OF “SURTAX NET INCOME”.—As used in this section the term “surtax net income” means the amount of the net income in excess of the credits against net income provided in section 25 (b).
(b) RATES OF SURTAX.—There shall be levied, collected, and paid for each taxable year upon the surtax net income of every individual a surtax as follows: (a steeply graduated incremental tax rate table follows, up to a top marginal rate of 75%)
SEC. 21. NET INCOME.
“Net income” means the gross income computed under section 22, less the deductions allowed by section 23. For definition of “adjusted net income”, see section 13 (a); for definition of “special class net income”, see section 14 (a).
SEC. 22. GROSS INCOME.
(a) GENERAL DEFINITION.—”Gross income” includes gains, profits, and income derived from salaries, wages, or compensation for personal service, of whatever kind and in whatever form paid, or from professions, vocations, trades, businesses, commerce, or sales, or dealings in property, whether real or personal, growing out of the ownership or use of or interest in such property; also from interest, rent, dividends, securities, or the transaction of any business carried on for gain or profit, or gains or profits and income derived from any source whatever. In the case of Presidents of the United States and judges of courts of the United States taking office after June 6, 1932, the compensation received as such shall be included in gross income; and all Acts taxing the compensation of such Presidents and judges are hereby amended accordingly.
SEC. 51. INDIVIDUAL RETURNS.
(a) REQUIREMENT.—The following individuals shall each make under oath a return stating specifically the items of his gross income and the deductions and credits allowed under this title and such other information for the purpose of carrying out the provisions of this title as the Commissioner with the approval of the Secretary may by regulations prescribe—
(1) Every individual who is single or who is married but not living with husband or wife, if—
(A) Having a net income for the taxable year of $1,000 or over; or
(B) Having a gross income for the taxable year of $5,000 or over, regardless of the amount of the net income.
(Etc., etc., covering the usual categories familiar to all…)
SEC. 903. EFFECTIVE DATE OF ACT.
Except as otherwise provided, this Act shall take effect upon its enactment.
[Received by the President, May 16, 1938.]
[NOTE BY THE DEPARTMENT OF STATE.—The foregoing act having been presented to the President of the United States for his approval, and not having been returned by him to the House of Congress in which it originated within the time prescribed by the Constitution of the United States, has become a law without his approval.]
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(Now, don’t panic. You DO remember what “income” means, don’t you?)
“The ‘Government’ is an abstraction, and its possession of property largely constructive. Actual possession and custody of Government property nearly always are in someone who is not himself the Government but acts in its behalf and for its purposes. He may be an officer, an agent, or a contractor. His personal advantages from the relationship by way of salary, profit, or beneficial personal use of the property may be taxed…â€
United States Supreme Court, United States v. County of Allegheny, 322 US 174 (1944)
“An income tax is neither a property tax nor a tax on occupations of common right, but is an excise tax…The legislature may declare as ‘privileged’ and tax as such for state revenue, those pursuits not matters of common right, but it has no power to declare as a ‘privilege’ and tax for revenue purposes, occupations that are of common right.”
Simms v. Ahrens, 271 SW 720 (1925)
Been a “non-filer” due to misunderstandings about whether there is “a law”?
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Ed and Elaine Brown avoided having their property stormed by State Police, US Marshal’s and FBI.
Foiled by one of his guests walking the dog when he spotted them in the woods.
http://www.infowars.net/articles/june2007/080607Ed_Brown.htm
The Federal Reserve System is a money-for-nothing scam, and the IRS is the collection agency.
If you don’t know this, you don’t know anything.
The bottom-line is Federal”income” taxes are applied to the debt incurred by interest(and face-value) from the use of “Federal Reserve Notes”, which are “created” out of nothing. The purpose of the taxes are not to run the “government” or provide “essential services”.
“We the People, by The People” has been co-opted by the global financial elite, using deception, subversion and blackmail. We didn’t vote for it, corrupt and ignorant or cowardly politicians and judges along with the BOUGHT-AND-PAID-FOR-MEDIA(liars and creators of virtual-reality) have been the tools used to advance the goal of a global tyranny ruled by a supposed master-race that views the rest of us as cattle or “human-resources” to be controlled and exploited(slaves).
Some of the comments here show how successful the Collectivist brainwash has been, Pragmatism is the ultimate con-artists philosophy(“something is true, only if it is useful”). Might makes right, the ends justify the means, sacrifice individuals for the “greater good” of the whole–
I think I can speak for most of the population when I thank Ed Brown and his disillusioned wife for saving the tax payers (us) money with their self-incarceration. While they sit and think that they are staying out of prison, and beating the system, the rest of us in NH seem to be laughing at them.
It’s done. The Browns are in the slammer. About time. Sounds as though they may tack on a few years for obstruction as well.
We all showed you the law Ed. You chose to believe you were above it. Good ridance.
problem is … when the law breaks the law…then there is no law… I can’t wait to ” vent “.
I cannot believe some of these posts, especially from the dope who said that Ed violated the law. The fact is that the tax laws, just like the creation of the FED were illusions. These laws were not ratified EVER. The other problem is that no one has asked the Judges making these decisions if they or their court or their county or state ever received any financial benefit from guilty verdicts on tax protestors etc. I am fairly certain that in the case of criminal defendants, the court will receive a portion of the fine or seizures thereof. What kind of justice is that?
Calling a house “fortress-like” when a .22LR could shoot holes in it is being complicit in the proposed assassination of this couple by federal hired killers.
The Weavers’ plywood shack was called a “mountain fortress” by the FBI HRT force and their supporters in preparation for their murder (Samuel and Vicki Weaver, and attempted assassinations of Randall Weaver and Kevin Harris – to be fair, all but one FBI agent (who admitted in court he intended to murder Randall Weaver) refused to assassinate anyone). What next? Their car a “tank”?
Go read Simms v. Ahrens, 271 SW 720 (1925):
“An income tax is neither a property tax nor a tax on occupations of common right, but is an excise tax.” “The legislature may declare as ‘privilege’ and tax as such for state revenue, those pursuits not matters of common right, but it has no power to declare as a ‘privilege’ and tax for revenue purposes, occupations that are of common right.” — Notice that this was in 1925, 11 years after the purported ratification of the Income Tax amendment, so the Court had plenty of time to digest it.
Occupations of common right are those that exist without creation by government, those that people did and do without needing a privilege granted by government. No one can work for the government without there being a government, so working for the government is not an occupation of common right. Lawyers have nothing to do without government courts, so theirs is not an occupation of common right.
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