Richard Winchester calls our attention to a method that some self-employed people are using to successfully and legally escape social security taxes:
I wonder to what extent this sort of technique is practical for individual tax resisters.
Richard Winchester calls our attention to a method that some self-employed people are using to successfully and legally escape social security taxes:
I wonder to what extent this sort of technique is practical for individual tax resisters.
The IRS hasn’t forgotten how to play mean. Excerpts from a Tax Court Memo:
A mentally disabled veteran… sought review of the IRS’s refusal to abate interest… for liabilities that were assessed during a period that he was intermittently hospitalized and homeless, and did not receive notices of deficiency. Acting pro se, the taxpayer had agreed to a stipulation of facts that would do little to prove his case, and that would prohibit him from presenting useful evidence. The taxpayer subsequently obtained pro bono counsel and moved to vacate the stipulations so that his interest abatement claim could be decided on its merits.
…The taxpayer was not represented by counsel when the stipulations were being drafted; the stipulations were prepared by the government’s counsel without negotiation or bargaining. Additionally, he had no legal training and suffered from a weakened mental and physical condition. The government’s argument that the taxpayer would not be prejudiced by the agreed-upon stipulations was rejected. Finally, the taxpayer did not understand the stipulation process; he believed that the government’s counsel was there to assist him, rather than to represent the IRS.
The Tax Foundation have released their estimate of “Tax Freedom Day” for :
The funny thing about this is that if the Tax Foundation took its own advice and offset taxes paid by households with government spending on behalf of households to come up with a “net tax burden” instead of just looking at the tax side of the equation (see ’s Picket Line), then ’s “Tax Freedom Day” would have to be moved all the way back into !
This earlier Tax Foundation report on “net tax burden” continues to be misinterpreted by design in the media. Some characteristic distortions:
Thanks to Market Anarchist Carnival for plugging The Picket Line in its inaugural edition.