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Why I Don’t Pay Income Taxes Anymore

Ward Dean, M.D.
Commander, USN (Retired)

WEAR TV - Pensacola Breaking News Update - 7/18/2003

Like most people, until 1996, I had always believed that I was required to pay income taxes. I dutifully paid them because I assumed (like most everyone else) that the law required Americans to pay them. Like most people, I had read the 1040 book sent out by the IRS, but I had never read the law.

However, in 1996, I heard a man named Irwin Schiff on the radio. Mr. Schiff had a nightly radio show on KLAV in Las Vegas, which was broadcast on short wave and on satellite (many of these shows are archived on the internet on Mr. Schiff’s website, www.paynoincometax.com).

Irwin Schiff, Dr. Dean, and Paul Dean at conference in Atlanta, 1997.

What Mr. Schiff said was hard to believe. He claimed there was no law that required anyone to pay income taxes, and that there was no law that made anyone liable for income taxes!

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Recently, in an outrageous attack on the First Amendment and our right to speak freely, a U.S. District Court judge in Las Vegas issued a restraining order enjoining Mr. Schiff from selling his books or giving lectures about the income tax. This is the first time since the founding of our Republic that a book has been banned by the government! For more about this story, see the report from the We the People Foundation. Mr. Schiff has filed a Motion for Reconsideration with the court. Amazingly, the government is now claiming that Mr. Schiff's inclusion of this document on his website is a violation of the court order--despite the fact that it is now a matter of public record.

I still had a hard time believing Mr. Schiff’s claims, and obtained a copy of the tax code so I could read what the law really said for myself.

Mr. Schiff pointed out that the Privacy Act in the “1040 Book” cited the three code sections that IRS claimed gave them their “legal right to ask for the information, why [they] are asking for it, and how it will be used.”

The IRS claimed (in the Privacy Act) that their “legal right to ask for information is Internal Revenue Code Sections 6001, 6011, and 6012 (a) and their regulations. They [the statutes and regulations] say that you must file a return or statement with us for any tax you are liable for (emphasis added).”

I went to the Index of the tax code to try to find the code section that made anyone liable for the income tax—and found that although there were liability statutes listed for over 40 other types of taxes, there was no code section that made anyone liable for an “income tax.” All of the other taxes had a specific code section that told clearly who was liable for a particular tax. “Income Tax” was not even listed! (In several meetings with IRS agents, I have offered to pay all taxes and penalties immediately if they would only show me which code section made me liable for the tax.)

Since we are only required to pay taxes for which we are liable, by the IRS’ own admission in the Privacy Act, it appeared that Mr. Schiff might be right.

I read further into the tax code, and learned that the liability issue was only the tip of the iceberg, so to speak, and only hinted at the enormity of the fraud that had been perpetrated on the American public. This is explained in detail in Mr. Schiff’s books, as well as in books by other researchers--including former members of Congress. For example, Senator William Roth, former head of the Senate Finance Committee wrote The Power to Destroy, and former Congressmen George Hanson of the House Banking and Domestic Monetary Committees wrote To Harass our People. In addition, there is a growing number of well-documented websites on the internet which expose various aspects of the IRS fraud.

The Power to Destroy

To Harass Our People

 

 

See Also: Breaking Developments
in IRS Grand Jury Update Section