Most people hate the idea of having to pay a big chunk of their earnings to the government, especially given what's being done with it these days.  ("I don't want my money used to blow up Iraqis.") Tax defiers -- the DOJ's new term -- have taken their chances with the IRS, and many have had their property seized and landed in jail.  CPAs (trained by the IRS) are on hand to finagle numbers in greatly creative and complicated ways (for which they earn nice money) to help us lessen our "tax liability" as the concept of the "unconstitutional income tax" hovers around us, eluding proof and somehow just a bit too far out of our reach.

What are we to believe?  Was the 16th Amendment really not ratified?  Are they somehow making us pay even though the Constitution says they should not?  Why isn't anything being done about it?  Amazingly, there IS something you can do, and once you learn about it you'll be surprised how simple and legal it is.  Enter Pete Hendrickson, a veteran of IRS battling, who carefully analyzed the entire Internal Revenue Code and the even bigger body of statutory law for what is and what is not "income."  Your tax liability is essentially created from a few forms on which your name appears annually, thanks to errant "employers" who have been bamboozled by the IRS into issuing "information returns" on those who work for them.  These forms (1099s and W-2s) are intended solely for federal employers, but millions of individuals and entities not federally connected churn them out every year.  Amazement Number 2:  The IRS provides ways by which you can rebut the nature of the "income" reported on these forms -- if the money you were paid was not federally sourced, you can say so.  Your 1040 Individual Income Tax Return is your legal testimony about your earnings, and if used to disagree with the information returns filed about you, conveniently discharges you from the burden of paying "income tax."  So far, individuals filing in the manner described by Pete Hendrickson's book "Cracking the Code: The Fascinating Truth About Taxation in America" have netted refunds in excess of $3 million collectively -- just in the last few years!  Please see our "What's Income" page on this site for further information  (www.NotIncome.com).