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Category: Tax Tyranny & Enslavement (38 articles).
Jun 10, 2010   Small businesses threatened with 1099 tax form tyranny provision in health care bill

According to a recent report from CNNMoney.com, the massive U.S. health care system overhaul includes more than just a transition to government-run medicine. A small section hidden away in the 2,409-page bill requires all businesses to send 1099 tax forms to every company or individual from which they purchased more than $600 in services and goods throughout the tax year, beginning on January 1, 2012. As you'll see below, this new law threatens to cause a wave of paperwork chaos across the entire U.S. economy, stifling the operations of small businesses and driving more jobs overseas. Here's [full story]
Apr 17, 2010   The tax code, you see, is really just a transfer of wealth from the working poor to the stinking rich. It is a way to keep the poor people poor while making sure the rich stay rich.

What are the health consequences of the tax season burden on American taxpayers? by Mike Adams, the Health Ranger, NaturalNews Editor (NaturalNews) It's tax season in the U.S. again, and when it comes to discussions about the financial burden on the economy from the complexity of the current U.S. tax code, most of the criticisms focus on the number of dollars (or hours) spent in compliance. According to a study from the Tax Foundation, U.S. taxpayers spend over 6 billion hours and over $256 billion working to comply with the current tax code. [full story]
Jan 4, 2010   Harmonized GST/PST sales tax which will apply a 13% sales tax to everything we purchase.

Next summer (2010) the Ontario Government is set to put into force its new harmonized GST/PST sales tax which will apply a 13% sales tax to everything we purchase. Things That Were Not Subject To The Current 8% PST Will Be Now Taxed As a result, things that were not previously taxed under the current Ontario Provincial Sales Tax (PST) will be taxed at 8%. [full story]
Dec 8, 2009   CRA again writes its own rules. Dr. Jack Klundert found not gulity of a crime by a second jury, but Appeals Court orders third Jury trial

Court orders 3rd trial for local tax protester A third trial has been ordered for a Windsor optometrist who was twice found not guilty of income tax evasion. By The Windsor StarNovember 18, 2008 showTab("text/html"); function resizeImage() { var imgBox = document.getElementById('imageBox'); var photo = document.getElementById('storyphoto'); if (imgBox != null && photo != null) { if(photo.width >= 460) { imgBox.className = 'imagesize460'; } else { if(photo.width >= [full story]
Dec 8, 2009   A Superior Court jury ruled late Monday that a Windsor optometrist was not guilty of tax evasion when he refused to pay nearly $350,000 in income taxes over five years.

Jury says refusal to pay tax not crime A Superior Court jury ruled late Monday that a Windsor optometrist was not guilty of tax evasion when he refused to pay nearly $350,000 in income taxes over five years. By The Windsor StarJune 27, 2006 showTab("text/html"); function resizeImage() { var imgBox = document.getElementById('imageBox'); var photo = document.getElementById('storyphoto'); if (imgBox != null && photo != null) { if(photo.width >= 460) { imgBox.className = 'imagesize460'; } else [full story]
Dec 8, 2009   He tried a slightly different approach before a new jury. He claimed he didn't owe any taxes because the income tax laws only applied to a "person" or a "taxpayer" and he was neither a "person" or a "taxpayer"

Challenging the authority of the taxman By ALAN SHANOFF Updated: 15th March 2009, 5:25am Once again it is income tax filing season. Like many of you, I'd like to keep more of the money I earn but I dutifully file returns and pay my taxes every year. But a significant number of Canadians don't believe the Canadian government has the legal power to require us to pay income tax. They call themselves detaxers. Some believe the Canadian government itself is not a legally constituted government. Some believe you can just opt out of the "voluntary" Canadian tax system. [full story]
Dec 8, 2009   By verdict handed down March 14, 2002 the respondent was acquitted on the charge of income tax evasion. Following a Crown appeal to this court that acquittal was set aside and a new trial ordered: R. v. Klundert

OVERVIEW [2] By indictment dated July 5, 2001 it was alleged that the respondent did wilfully evade or attempt to evade the payment of $348,231.15 in taxes imposed upon him by the Act, by failing to report income in the amounts of $241,625, $270,403, $434,931, $254,520 and $272,910 for the taxation years 1993, 1994, 1995, 1996, and 1997 respectively. [3] By verdict handed down March 14, 2002 the respondent was acquitted on the charge of income tax evasion. Following a Crown appeal to this court that acquittal was set aside and a new trial ordered: R. v. Klundert [full story]
May 28, 2009   Where does this nonsense about the validity of the tax laws come from? Where do people get these ridiculous ideas that they don't need to pay income tax, that they can declare themselves exempt from income tax laws

Detaxers tax their credibility Posted By ALAN SHANOFF Posted 2 months ago Once again it is income tax filing season. Like many of you, I'd like to keep more of the money I earn, but I dutifully file returns and pay my taxes every year. But a significant number of Canadians don't believe the Canadian government has the legal power to require us to pay income tax. They call themselves detaxers. Some believe the Canadian government itself is not a legally constituted government. Some believe you can just opt out of the "voluntary" Canadian tax system. There are Internet sites that [full story]
May 28, 2009   The segment dealt principally, but not solely, with the Canadian wing of a movement known as the "detaxers" who believe that citizens do not need to pay income tax.

Media Release Public Affairs Segment about Detaxers Did Not Breach Broadcaster Codes, Says Canadian Broadcast Standards Council Ottawa, March 6, 2003 - The Canadian Broadcast Standards Council (CBSC) today released its decision concerning a segment called "No Tax" broadcast within an episode of CTV's public affairs program W-FIVE. The segment dealt principally, but not solely, with the Canadian wing of a movement known as the "detaxers" who believe that citizens do not need to pay income tax. The CBSC National Conventional Television Panel reviewed complaints accusing the broadcaster [full story]
May 28, 2009   Toronto lawyer David Sherman, an authority on tax law, has little patience for detaxer theories.

What a lawyer says about the Law Toronto lawyer David Sherman, an authority on tax law, has little patience for detaxer theories. "Detaxers say that because of such and such an analysis going back to the Magna Carta or something, the government can't impose taxes and therefore the income tax is voluntary. That's like telling someone that you can cure AIDS by boiling toads under a full moon and inhaling the steam while you stand on one foot reciting Hamlet's [full story]
May 28, 2009   Detaxers are a motley crew, but they hold a couple of beliefs in common: they say income taxes are voluntary and federal income taxes are unconstitutional because the BNA Act forbids them.

Detax man cometh A novel band of tax evaders is running amuck and Mr. Snafu, our advice guru, is not amused. Here's his report on the so-called detaxers. Illustration by Seth Dear Mr. Snafu Specialist, For about 10 years I had a client who always filed his tax return on time. Two years ago, he suddenly started threatening to quit what he called "the illegal tax system." He promised he would soon join a group known as "de- taxers" who would show him how to stop paying income taxes, since, in their opinion, paying taxes is neither necessary nor constitutional. A few weeks ago, [full story]
May 28, 2009   This is the last word on the success of 'detaxers' facing Her Majesty's judges, particularly in British Columbia. It's absolutely sensational for purposes of proving the enormity of the income tax hoax.

The attachment to this message is the Reasons in the case of Reginaversus Nigel Smith which was decided in Victoria British ColumbiaFebruary 15 2005. 2005 BCJ No.. 316 Victoria Registry No. 125225CProv. Ct.. J Higginbotham. This is the last word on the success of 'detaxers' facing HerMajesty's judges, particularly in British Columbia. It's absolutely sensationalfor purposes of proving the enormity of the income tax hoax. The FINDING of the Court was that CRA will accept a return of income in just about any format which gives them a premise for an assessment. Since that's [full story]
May 28, 2009   "The interviews that I have done previously were set-ups by CCRA or by CCRA interests to villify (sic) the concept of detax, and to villify (sic) those who have found out the truth about this massive scam by our de facto government ....

"The interviews that I have done previously were set-ups by CCRA or by CCRA interests to villify (sic) the concept of detax, and to villify (sic) those who have found out the truth about this massive scam by our de facto government, and who are willing to inform other Canadians about it. "While you may be of good intent, experience has shown that editors and owners of the media have other designs not favourable to the exposure of the truth." – Eldon Warman of Detax Canada There you have it. The media is a conspiracy. In fact, so [full story]
Aug 13, 2008   Not one of these taxes existed 100 years ago, ...and our nation was one of the most prosperous in the world. We had absolutely no national debt, had a large middleclass, and Mom stayed home to raise the kids.

Not one of these taxes existed 100 years ago, ...and our nation was one of the most prosperous in the world. We had absolutely no national debt, had a large middleclass, and Mom stayed home to raise the kids. What in the hell happened? Can you spell 'politicians?' And 'unelected bureaucrats truly in control' And I still have to 'press 1' for English!?!?!?!? [full story]
Oct 13, 2007   It seems the US Income tax Act was not "ratified"...which makes it unenforceable, under their system.

Dear Dai-Andrew, All grist for a Jury. Yours sincerely, John Wilson. ----- Original Message ----- From: Dave Buckley To: 'John Wilson' Sent: Friday, October 12, 2007 9:23 AM Subject: RE: Aussie Tax Act, too. True, it is not ratified for people, but is perfectly “legal” for persons who have elected to be Commonwealth of Australia Citizens by cbecmong an “elector”. You have elected into the fiction as a person who is bound by the club rules they call legislation. It is a part of the smokescreen that is the Constitution, taking the De-jure colony of New South [full story]
Oct 3, 2007   IRS Suffers Staggering Defeat

[ *excerpt* from www.wethepeoplefoundation.org/UPDATE/Update2007-09-30.htm ] September 30, 2007Media Blackout:161 Federal Tax Charges, 0 ConvictionsIRS Suffers Staggering Defeat Tax Questions Raised RegardingGold and Silver Coins Used to Pay Wages Around noon on Monday, September 17th, a Las Vegas federal jury returned its verdict refusing to convict nine defendants of any of the 161 federal tax crimes they had been charged with. The charges included income tax evasion, willful failure to file and conspiracy to evade taxes.The four-month trial centered around the family businesses of Robert [full story]
Sep 29, 2007   Give us our surplus back; Take the hint, Flaherty, we are overtaxed

----- Original Message ----- From: Lorne Gunter To: AAA Sent: Friday, September 28, 2007 8:58 AM Subject: Give us our surplus back; Take the hint, Flaherty, we are overtaxed Give us our surplus back; Take the hint, Flaherty, we are overtaxed National Post Fri 28 Sep 2007 Page: A1 Section: News Byline: Lorne Gunter Broad-based tax cuts, now, Mr. Flaherty. It's simple, sir. No hemming and hawing, please. No dithering. No equivocating. Just cut Canadians' taxes now. Yesterday it was revealed that in the fiscal year that ended on March 31, your government racked up a staggering $14.2-billion [full story]
Jul 26, 2007   IRS loses challenge to prove tax liability Lawyer is acquitted after arguing income levy lacks legal foundation

The Internal Revenue Service has lost a lawyer's challenge in front of a jury to prove a constitutional foundation for the nation's income tax, and the victorious attorney now is setting his sights higher. "I think now people are beginning to realize that this has got to be the largest fraud, backed up by intimidation and extortion and by the sheer force of taking peoples property and hard-earned money without any lawful authorization whatsoever," lawyer Tom Cryer told WND just days after a jury in Louisiana acquitted him of two criminal tax counts. [full story]
Jun 11, 2007   Fair from the Canadian Revenue Agency from a Canadian taxpayer's Viewpoint

Dear Canada Revenue Agency: Enclosed you will find my 2007 tax return showing that I owe $3,407.00 in taxes. Please note the attached article from the National Postnewspaper; dated 12 November, wherein you will see the Ministry of Defense is paying $171.50 per hammer and $600.00 per toilet seat. I am enclosing four (4) toilet seats (valued @ $2,400) and six (6) hammers valued @ $1,029), which I secured at Home Depot, bringing my total remittance to $3,429.00. [full story]
Jan 23, 2007   450,000 + refused to pay the Income Tax

That's a big news item! Does it mean they know that what Aaron Russo is saying is correct? [full story]
Jun 30, 2006   Canadians Celebrate Tax Freedom Day on June 19th

This year, Canadians start working for themselves on June 19th. According to The Fraser Institute’s annual Tax Freedom Day calculations, Canadians worked until June 18th to pay the total tax bill imposed on them by all levels of government. Tax Freedom Day arrives five days earlier than in 2005, when it fell on June 24. The Fraser Institute calculates Tax Freedom Day to provide a simple reference point about the impact of government tax collection. The Institute has been researching the comprehensive tax burden for the average family in Canada, and each of the provinces, since 1977. “It is [full story]
Feb 8, 2004   Property Tax meeting

There is a meeting scheduled for February 16 at the Almonte arena regarding property tax assesments and reclassifications. Representatives from MPAC and our local politicians will be attending. The meeting is open to the public and a large attendance is expected. Please join with us, and help protect our maple syrup producers, woodlots, and rural business - and voice your opposition to MPAC and property tax unfairness. Randy Hillier President, Lanark landowners association 613-257-7968 [full story]
Nov 12, 2003   Virtual Big Brother: The E-Gestapo Is Coming

SEE: “PUNCTURED PRIVACY” “# 8” under “Top 10 Articles” & “Biometrics & Privacy” under “Issues Research” By: Dave Franklin If "www-dot-anybody" can hold elected officials accountable, it has to be unsettling for the elite. But there's no worry for craven power-grubbing leaches in DC, since Internet taxation will be their new e-Gestapo in the information age. As the permanent moratorium on Internet tax runs into trouble on Capitol Hill, a closer look at the history of taxes and the information superhighway is in order. If it had not been for the Drudge Report, Bill Clinton would never [full story]
May 25, 2002   Dreaming, tax-free

Saturday, May 25, 2002 – Page A18 This week's Supreme Court of Canada decision on tax deductions for non-profitable business ventures strikes a blow for entrepreneurship in Canada. It also puts the government where it belongs -- outside the realm of judging Canadians' investment decisions. The court ruled Thursday that Canadians can claim losses from business ventures on their income-tax returns even if the businesses have no reasonable hope of profit. The ruling is being viewed as a boon for a multitude of investment schemes designed to provide tax shelters for the rich, and it will [full story]
May 7, 2002   A taxing burden

The Ottawa Citizen Monday, April 29, 2002 To calculate the accumulated income payment (AIP) that qualifies for a waiver of tax deductions, you need Canada Customs and Revenue Agency Form T-1171. You fill in the AIP and the RRSP deduction limit -- you get that from your previous year's notice of assessment -- and you subtract, from whichever of the two is the lesser, the lifetime limit minus the amounts you've used to reduce additional tax on AIPs from previous years, if applicable. Then you subtract the total of AIPs that you had your promoter transfer to your RRSP (or to your spouse's [full story]
May 4, 2002   More feedback on tax Refusal and the W5 show

I thank Wally Dove CGA for having spine and integrity sufficient to confront such as "W-FIVE" and letting them know of the extent to which Canadians have started to wake and are confronting the insanity of Humanity's race to the abyss of total use of all Nuclear and other Weapons Of Mass Murder as Banksters schemes to control ALL, and ALL WEALTH, runs aground against the interests of individuals who have started to say "ENOUGH!" . . . and actually mean it to the point of joining such as the Tax Refusal . . . . . " Hello, I am writing in response to your April 21st, 2002 W-5 segment regarding [full story]
Apr 7, 2002   10 Reasons to Hate the Liberal Air Tax

James Moore, MP Port Moody-Coquitlam-Port Coquitlam Official Opposition Senior Transport Critic News Release FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE April 1st, 2002 10 Reasons to Hate the Liberal Air Tax VANCOUVER- "Today launches latest chapter in destructive Liberal taxation and transportation policy with the beginning of the $24 round-trip air security tax," says Canadian Alliance Senior Transport Critic James Moore. "This Liberal tax grab represents one of the most arrogant, wasteful, and irresponsible public policy decisions ever made by Canada's Liberal government." At a press conference this morning [full story]
Apr 4, 2002   The EU’s Tax Attack -Finance Ministers Want to Collect VAT's on U.S. Internet S

By Daniel J. Mitchell You don't have to be an economist to know that when tax collectors from the European Union complain about "certain distortions of competition" and announce a need to "correct" it, a blueprint for higher taxes can't be far behind. This normally wouldn't concern most Americans, but notice who the EU has in its crosshairs this time: U.S. companies. Specifically, U.S. companies that sell digital products such as music or computer software that can be downloaded from the Internet. European consumers who buy from U.S. companies online avoid certain "value-added taxes" [full story]
Apr 3, 2002   USA Tax revolt!

© 2001 WorldNetDaily.com When America was born -- amid the revolutionary fires of war, principle and faith -- the new nation represented the noblest system of government in history. Rather than being subject to "the divine right" of kings and tyrants, as was most everywhere else on earth, in America the individual citizen was meant to be sovereign, and the government existed only to serve his highest interests. While fear and dread were the heartbeat of virtually every other society on earth -- from which "the huddled masses yearning to breathe free" emigrated to these shores -- boundless, unfettered [full story]
Mar 31, 2002   Saying No to Taxes and to the Judge

THE JUDGES FAILURE TO APPEAR! ----- Original Message ----- From: "Daniel Lavigne" Subject: FAILURE TO APPEAR! Gosh!! It looks as if the Tax Refusal is causing some concern for the "Future" of any Judge who rules that individuals do, OR DO NOT, have a right and duty to refuse to support a society that would commit Mass Murder. Paul-Joseph: Ricci, in the matter "Ricci v. Regina" was ordered to appear this morning in Courtroom 309 in the Brampton Court House, at 10:00 AM, before Judge Cowan. We arrived early and met the Crown Prosecutor at 09:45 AM; and waited, and waited, and waited, and waited, [full story]
Mar 31, 2002   IRS Raids Anti-Income Taxer's Home and Office

For Immediate Release Contact: Steven A. Swan P.O. Box 453, Auburn, NH 03032 603 483-0550 1-19-2 AUBURN, NH - On Wednesday, January 9th, 15-20 armed IRS Special Agents executed a search warrant at the home and office of anti-Income Taxer Steven A. Swan in Auburn, New Hampshire. Swan is being investigated by a federal grand jury to determine whether or not he has committed any crimes regarding the federal Income Tax. Swan believes that the federal Income Tax has been fraudulently imposed upon the American people and he has been attempting to expose this fraud since 1996 by conducting seminars in [full story]
Mar 31, 2002   Congressional complicity?

By Geoff Metcalf © 2002 WorldNetDaily.com I have been covering the so-called "Tax Honesty" movement for over ten years. The core question about whether or not the 16th Amendment and the income tax are kosher has seen me interview a long list of researchers, tax honesty advocates and gadflies. Many of those interviews became WND Q&As, including Bill Benson, Joe Banister, Bob Schulz, Larry Becraft, Devvy Kidd, and others. As an academic question, there appears to be substance to the claim that the 16th Amendment was never properly ratified. However, the reality is, and has been, that if you [full story]
Mar 31, 2002   New federal tax on Cd's and digital memory

Stop The Tax - www.cdbiz.ca Hi, I am asking for your help in spreading the word on a new federal tax that is going to have a significant impact on my business and the IT industry. New levees are being imposed that will double the cost for digital memory devices such as CD's. CD-R's, CD-RW, DVD's and computer memory in Canada. For example: each mini-cd disk will have a $1.23 levy applied to it and all recordable CD's will have a $.59 levy applied to them. Below is a cost comparison of various products today and the proposed price impact on January 1. Product Price Jan. 1st 100 [full story]
Mar 27, 2002   UN Conference Fails To Establish Global Tax Organization

By Mike Godfrey Tax-News.com 3-26-2 NEW YORK - To the delight of liberal activists, the United Nations' International Conference on Financing for Development, which took place in Monterrey, Mexico, last week failed in its aim of creating an International Tax Organisation, intended to enable nations to collect and disseminate information regarding their tax policies, assist governments in taxing emigrant workers, and compel members to share tax data. [full story]
Mar 18, 2002   Tax War Next Steps - We The People Verses The Income Tax

From Bob Schulz GiveMeLiberty.org 3-17-2 The Next Steps: 1. We must put the "electric" record of the hearing into the hands of every member of Congress2. We must deliver deafening demands to our elected representatives3. We must spread news of this crisis across America On February 27 and 28, 2002, the We The People Foundation for Constitutional Education sponsored the long-awaited Truth-In-Taxation Hearing. This historic event exposed to the public the irrefutable facts about how the three branches of the federal government have intentionally and systematically conspired to deprive the American [full story]
Mar 11, 2002   Twelve Percent Have Worked Under the Table

Twelve per cent say they have worked under the table By NELSON WYATT-- Canadian Press MONTREAL (CP) -- About 12 per cent of Canadians have worked under the table but only 2.5 per cent could admit ever making false declarations on their tax return, a new poll indicates. Most respondents -- 93.3 per cent -- told Leger Marketing in a poll supplied to The Canadian Press that they would file their income tax return before the April 30 deadline. Leger Marketing surveyed 1,511 people in telephone interviews between Feb. 19 and 23. The margin of error is 2.6 percentage points, 19 times out of 20. Most [full story]
Feb 28, 2002   LIBERALS RAMMING THROUGH HUGE AIR TAX

From: "Official Opposition Press Office - Service de presse de l'opposition officielle" Sent: Wednesday, February 27, 2002 12:40 PM Subject: Release - LIBERALS RAMMING THROUGH HUGE $2.2 BILLION AIR TAX DESPITE UNIVERAL OPPOSITION Official Opposition Critic for Finance Jason Kenney, MP News Release Wednesday February 27th, 2002 LIBERALS RAMMING THROUGH HUGE $2.2 BILLION AIR TAX DESPITE UNIVERAL OPPOSITION Ottawa - The Liberal government has rammed through a $2.2 billion tax hike on air travellers through the House of Commons Finance Committee, ignoring the universal opposition from every witness [full story]
Feb 24, 2002   Taxes Drive Economy Underground

Taxes drive economy underground Government is losing $44B a year to tax cheats and cash deals: study Kristin Goff and Eric Beauchesne The Ottawa Citizen Saturday, February 23, 2002 The increased tax burden is being blamed as the major culprit behind a ballooning underground economy that by the mid-1990s accounted for 16 cents of every dollar in goods and services produced in Canada and has contributed to a huge jump in tax cheats. Canadian governments were losing $44 billion a year to tax cheats and other criminals, up from $2 billion a quarter of a century earlier, says a new 270-page study published [full story]