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I am going to respond to this, though I have read some of your posts, and it appears you, for some reason, are a slow learner. Your points seem to demonstrate a near total ignorance of the Fair Tax proposal.

Wages, salaries and self-employment income are required to be reported.

By whom? Certainly not the one that makes a purchase.

If you want a (GAG!)"prebate" you'll have to disclose your dependants.

This is the one point that separates you from demonstrating total ignorance of the Fair Tax. Obtaining a refund for overtaxation (prebate) does require disclosing some dependent information.

You are not "required" to disclose your charitable contributions now, what's your point?

You are "required" to do this if you want to pay the minimum legal tax.

How do you pay property taxes without the government knowing how much you paid?

I am sorry, I thought the topic was federal taxes. I do not pay property tax to the Feds. But, to get those wonderful federal income tax deductions, I have to tell the IRS how much I spent for the local property tax.

If you have profits it means you sold something, you'll have to keep books on what and how much you sold it for, if they're taxable or not and if so remit 23% of your gross...including 23% of your self-employment income from services...How is that different again?

You are way off. Profits are not taxed or reported to the government. Business record-keeping would also be simplified--a lot. The partners or stockholders may require detailed books to be kept, but the tax bureaucracy has no legitimate interest in net profit. They need to know the total of retail sales. If your sales are all to other businesses to use in their product, your business owes no Fair Tax. Items or services sold at retail would indeed require record-keeping, with records very similar to records used to pay state sales tax.

Savings and both interest paid and earned ARE taxable.

Wrong. Interest or dividends from investments are not taxed when received by the consumer. When paying "interest" on a loan, the payment has two components--interest and service. Fair Tax is paid on the service portion. The tax on financial instruments is only on the service portion. Buy stock at a brokerage and pay no tax on the stock and Fair Tax on the broker's commission.

That's because you're wrong on most if not all points.

I do wish you would try to read and comprehend the Fair Tax bill. It must be tiresome spreading so much misinformation.

Wages, salaries and self-employment income are required to be reported.
By whom? Certainly not the one that makes a purchase.
LOL! HUH?

`SEC. 903. WAGES TO BE REPORTED TO SOCIAL SECURITY ADMINISTRATION.

`(a) IN GENERAL- Employers shall submit such information to the Social Security Administration as is required by the Social Security Administration to calculate Social Security benefits under title II of the Social Security Act, including wages paid, in a form prescribed by the Secretary. A copy of the employer submission to the Social Security Administration relating to each employee shall be provided to each employee by the employer.

`(b) WAGES- For purposes of this section, the term `wages' means all cash remuneration for employment (including tips to an employee by third parties provided that the employer or employee maintains records documenting such tips) including self-employment income; except that such term shall not include--

`(1) any insurance benefits received (including death benefits);

`(2) pension or annuity benefits received;

`(3) tips received by an employee over $5,000 per year; and

`(4) benefits received under a government entitlement program (including Social Security benefits and unemployment compensation benefits).

`(c) SELF-EMPLOYMENT INCOME- For purposes of subsection (b), the term `self-employment income' means gross payments received for taxable property or services minus the sum of--

`(1) gross payments made for taxable property or services (without regard to whether tax was paid pursuant to section 101 on such taxable property or services), and

`(2) wages paid by the self-employed person to employees of the self-employed person.

You are "required" to do this if you want to pay the minimum legal tax.
No, you choose to do it, no one requires you to do it...were you saying someting about ignorance?I am sorry, I thought the topic was federal taxes. I do not pay property tax to the Feds. But, to get those wonderful federal income tax deductions, I have to tell the IRS how much I spent for the local property tax.
Property taxes are public information. Even your neighbor can know how much you pay. The fact YOU CHOOSE to voluntarily tell the IRS is your problem...ignorance is bliss.
You are way off. Profits are not taxed or reported to the government.
The Fairtax law is NOT written for the consumer. The 23% rate is what the business pays, not the consumer. The 23% tax is a percentage OF the (taxable) gross including profits, so the Fairtax does indeed tax profits...Yet more ignorance of the concept
Wrong. Interest or dividends from investments are not taxed when received by the consumer. When paying "interest" on a loan, the payment has two components--interest and service. Fair Tax is paid on the service portion.
`(3) IMPLICITLY CHARGED FEES FOR FINANCIAL INTERMEDIATION SERVICES-

any underlying interest-bearing investment, account, or debt.>

`(B) GROSS IMPUTED AMOUNT- For purposes of subparagraph (A), the term `gross imputed amount' means--

any underlying interest-bearing investment or account,

`(I) the excess (if any) of the basic interest rate (as defined in section 805) over the rate paid on such investment; and

`(II) the amount of the investment or account; and

any underlying interest-bearing debt,

`(I) the excess (if any) of the rate paid on such debt over the basic interest rate (as defined in section 805); and

`(II) the amount of the debt.

I do wish you would try to read and comprehend the Fair Tax bill. It must be tiresome spreading so much misinformation.