"A hand from Washington will be stretched out and placed upon every man's business; the eye of the federal inspector will be in every man's counting house....The law will of necessity have inquisical features, it will provide penalties, it will create complicated machinery. Under it men will be hauled into courts distant from their homes. Heavy fines imposed by distant and unfamiliar tribunals will constantly menace the tax payer. An army of federal inspectors, spies, and detectives will descend upon the state."
-- Virginian House Speaker Richard E. Byrd, 1910, predicting the consequences of an income tax.
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John Linder in the House & Saxby Chambliss Senate, offer a comprehensive bill to kill all income and payroll taxes outright, and provide a IRS free replacement in the form of a retail sales tax:
H.R.25, S.1493
A bill to promote freedom, fairness, and economic opportunity by repealing the income tax and other taxes, abolishing the Internal Revenue Service, and enacting a national retail sales tax to be administered primarily by the States.Refer for additional information: http://www.fairtax.org & http://www.salestax.org
I assume these are mostly people with no W-2s. If you're on salary with a W2 sent to the IRS, you're unlikely to get away with not filing.
I would have thought that would also be true of form 1099s from investments and stock sales or sales of property. Don't these lawyers and rich professionals do any investing?
Until the income tax is illegal, PAY YOUR FRIGGIN' TAXES!!!
What a wonderful quote. Someone predicted what would happen, yet no one was able to hault the goverment's shake down of it's very citizens.
officials are finding millionaires, medical professionals, lawyers and other heavy hitters.
I'd be a millionare if I didnt have to pay taxes.
A claim for a federal income tax refund must be filed within 3 years of the date the return was filed or 2 years from the date the tax was paid, whichever is later. However, if the taxpayer did not file a timely return, the weight of the case law is that the taxpayer has only 2 years from the time the tax is deemed paid (usually the due date) to file a claim for refund. This article erroneously claims that a taxpayer has 3 years to claim a refund if the taxpayer did not file a return.
Lucky for Edwards he doesn't live in California.
Just more govt invasion into our lives. I hate paperwork and taxes are heck for me. If we had less govt we would have less paperwork and more privacy not to mention more freedom. If the govt had less money (lo and behold it would shrink). . . I know I am living in dreamland.
"In the previous year, the state sent out 647,580 notices to nonfilers asking for returns for 2001."
Send back a notice which states "To fulfil you request will require a $100 processing fee plus $10 for shipping and handling."