How you can resist funding the government → other tax resistance strategies → Constitutionalist tax protest stuff (“show me the law!”) → IRS can’t call you an “illegal tax protester”

Did you know that the IRS isn’t allowed to call you an “illegal tax protester?” Congress prohibited it in 1998. Go figure. Not only that, but they can’t use “any similar designation:”

14. (a) PROHIBITION. — The officers and employees of the Internal Revenue Service — (1) shall not designate taxpayers as illegal tax protesters (or any similar designation); and (2) in the case of any such designation made on or before the date of the enactment of this Act — (A) shall remove such designation from the individual master file; and (B) shall disregard any such designation not located in the individual master file.

And the IRS is required to audit itself (go ahead and giggle) to see if it is complying with this prohibition.

Here’s their latest audit. It appears that “constitutionally challenged” is the favorite internal IRS euphemism for tax protesters, as in the phrase “THESE TAXPAYERS ARE TO BE CONSIDERED CONSTITUTIONALLY CHALLENGED AND SHOULD NOT BE INTERVIEWED OR APPROACHED BY ANY IRS EMPLOYEE ALONE.”