UPDATES:
- Radio Interview with John B. Kotmair
Tomorrow night, Wednesday the 23rd of January at 9pm eastern, the Save-A-Patriot Fellowship founder and fiduciary John B. Kotmair, Jr. will be the special guest on The Agitator Hour as heard on The Other Radio Network. Also slated to make an appearance will be Bryan Rusch, independent representative for the fellowship and manager of The Tax Freedom 101 program. Bring your questions, comments and tell others about the show. Call-ins welcome.
To listen live on-line, or contact the host or guests during the show visit The Other Radio Network.
- Constitutional Quiz Question of the Week
"In questions of power, then let no more be said of confidence in man, but bind him down from mischief by the chains of the Constitution." - Thomas Jefferson
This week's question: Is the "right" to privacy to be found in the Constitution?
The answer to this question and many other intriguing and timely education material will be provided in the TAX FREEDOM 101 Alert Forum
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NEWS:
- IRS Losing Lots of Expensive Stuff
Would the IRS let you dear "Taxpayer" (if you still are one) lose receipts, business equipment, and other expensive items and still allow you to "write-it-off" as a business expense after one of their audits? Hell no! Not that it really matters right, because as our educated members know, citizens who derive their earnings within the 50 Union States are not the subject of the income tax. Be that as it may, the IRS has done a woeful job keeping track of expensive items bought and paid for by tax payers, and Taxpayers. Expensive items which are used in the everyday operations of the "agency". God forbid that they ever need that equipment to do their job collecting taxes from the ones who really owe it when it comes to income - that being foreigners.
No doubt that little will be done, however if you are interested to see a list of the "missing" items, which more than likely have been hocked to street entrepreneurs or simply kept by previous IRS personnel, then read the latest in Wired News, click here.
- We The People Income Tax Trial
The We The People Foundation for Constitutional Education has launched Operation "Wait to File Until the Trial." The new title may soon be, "Continue to File Until the Denial" as the organization's efforts may be for not. The very representative who championed the idea for a Congressional Hearing has now decided to bow-out and cancel the hearings.
To learn more visit the We The People Foundation.
- Taxpayers Beware: 'Super Audit'
It has to be tax time. News stories about the IRS, their goings on, and their veracity to keep the sheeple in line abound this time of year. This yearly ritual of drum beating by the IRS is picked up by those faithful servants in media just after the holidays with tempo and percussion section increasing and reaching a crescendo the middle of April. The timing of course is as predictable as it is amusing. The target audience of the yearly tribal sacrifice? The same as it is every year, innocent and ignorant citizen Taxpayers and the proverbial "tax cheats" within their midst.
Like the Iraqi 'Super Gun', a gun which can hurl an ordinance the size of a small Volkswagen into a neighboring country, this year's 'Super Audit' conducted by the IRS will strike a target of approximately 49,000 Taxpayers [that is Taxpayers one word] across the nation with the random precision of a US cluster bomb, leaving approximately 2,000 Taxpayers mortally wounded from the shrapnel of line item audits, with the remaining 47,000 Taxpayers/cheats recovering from the shell shock of a paper notice requesting their presence at the nearest Treasury IRS shake-down center. After all, someone has to keep all those tax attorneys, EAs and CPAs in business. However this fall should be a good time for the fellowship, as the IRS is our best recruiter.
If you're reading this and are still as fearful of the IRS as you are of us and our 'radical' education, or should we say re-education, then please consider these words of Thomas Jefferson before you read the following 'Super Scary' news article: "FEAR can only prevail when victims are ignorant of the facts." F.E.A.R. being our acronym for: False Evidence Appearing Real. Remove the FEAR by getting 'Just The Facts' here.
The LA Times news article: "IRS Revives Its Dreaded 'Super Audit'" available here.
NAZISM Is for Everyone
This is a follow-up to last week's news article "Future Driver's Licenses to be the National ID?"
The following is a short excerpt from The Agitator Hour's last show containing portions of the recent press conference (read that: Propaganda spoon-fed to the lame-stream media for conditioning the masses) held by the American Association of Motor Vehicle Administrators. As usual there is insightful and extraordinary commentary from The Agitator. This is the AAMVA's shameless attempt to use 9/11 as a pretext for implementing the National ID Card they call a "driver's license" that they've been pushing for the last 7 years.
If you want to see the face of evil, this is it. Will you comply with the Brown Shirts' demands? After all, Nazism is, and will be for everyone.
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INFORMATION:
- W2's and 9's and 1099's... Oh My!
by Bryan Rusch, Independent Representative for the Save-A-Patriot Fellowship
By now you may have noticed that IRS reporting forms have again began to flood our quasi governmental and publicly subsidized parcel delivery system, a.k.a. - the United States Postal Service. Sometimes we tend to forget what these forms represent, who is required to use them, and for whom they're intended. The following article is an informational summary on some of the most common forms, and what the law has to say about these forms.
The following is for those who are employed:
First, the W-4 although not sent through the mail is used to initialize "covered employment" and finds it's statutes in subtitle C employment taxes, primarily under the General Provisions of subchapter C in section 3121 which is dependent upon the Social Security Act. As we have repeatedly explained in the past, and as the SSA has said, participation in Social Security is voluntary for citizens, hence the payment of the taxes connected with Social Security is voluntary. However if you elect to have these taxes withheld on form W-4 and contribute to Social Security via the employment or Social Security Tax, then you are "covered" for Social Security purposes, and your voluntary contribution will be warmly welcomed by the IRS/SSA. Your voluntary contribution will be used to determine funds available for others requesting benefits in the near future.
The W-2 is a year end report generated by the covered employer based upon the quarterly 940 and 941 reports which show how much a covered employee has accumulated and been paid over the previous year by the covered employer. The W-2 shows all the taxes paid by the covered employee and those taxes which were matched by the covered employer on behalf of the covered employee. The W-2 reflects the rate of withholding by the percentage of taxes withheld to the amount "earned" as determined by the information given by the employed's execution of the W4.
The following is for those who are self-employed for Social Security purposes:
If you received a 1099 from a private citizen or business be aware that the 1099 is being used by companies to claim compensation as a business expense. The private citizen or business will forward this information return to the IRS to substantiate their claim of expense, thereby reducing their perceived tax liability. Some companies "1099" (ten ninety-nine) others for goods besides just services rendered. If the person you have rendered services for does not have a Taxpayer Identification Number (T.I.N) on file for you they may request one. Just because they request a "number" does not mean they're entitled to another's number. Some companies issue W-9's to request the number.
A W-9 is titled, Request for Taxpayer Identification Number. What if you're a "person" not required to have a T.I.N., such as a citizen - what do you do if you receive a W-9? Do not worry, the W-9 lacks an OMB control number. An OMB (Office of Management and Budget) control number is required to be issued to every federal government information form which requests information from a citizen. This procedure was required under the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1980 and named OMB the government watchdog to oversee the various executive agencies who had been requesting and collecting information from citizens not specifically required by law. The Office of Management and Budget uses these control numbers to show that the form is approved to gather information, however only when required by law. A federally issued information retrieval form such as the W-9 which lacks an OMB control number has been ruled to be an unofficial government document, and the courts have ruled that it can be considered bootlegged, and therefore may be ignored. We go into this subject further in The Tax Freedom 101 Accelerated Adult Home Study Program.
Also the W-9 requests the number under the penalties of perjury. The Secretary can only require that someone provide the number pursuant to penalties of perjury under IRC section 3406 subsection (e) paragraph 1. That section is concerned only with respect to interest, dividends, patronage dividends, and amounts subject to broker reporting. The Secretary may require that a TIN required to be furnished under section 3406 "Backup withholding" as specified in subsection (a)(1)(A) of 3406 only in the respect to the applicable code section of 3406(e)1.
Also, why in the left hand corner of the W9 does it instruct the receiver of the W-9 to: "Give form [W-9] to the requester. Do not send to the IRS." where the OMB control number normally would appear? Could it be that the IRS wishes to have plausible deniability that they do not actually require the information being requested? If so why? Could it be that backup withholding would not apply to citizens as well? You can find out in the Tax Freedom 101 Home Study Program.
I think the directions in the upper right hand corner should include the language "If a citizen of the United States, circular file in the closest receptacle."
Have a nice day form W-9.
The following is for those foreigners who are raping this country of its wealth, and the ignorant and not so ignorant citizens who claim "foreign status":
The W-8, titled: "Certificate of Foreign Status" has been used by foreigners to elude known duties, and requirements of paying taxes in areas that are otherwise required (i.e. foreign earned income). The IRS either turns a blind eye to this or they just miss the transactions. Or it may be that the IRS is more concerned with attacking their own citizens over laws which do not apply to them, then actually investigating their foreign buddies. Then of course there are those citizens who are playing the nonresident alien game.
In the purpose section on the W-8 it explains:
"Use Form W-8 or a substitute form containing a substantially similar statement to tell the payer, mortgage interest recipient, middleman, broker, or barter exchange that you are a nonresident alien individual, foreign entity, or exempt foreign person not subject to certain U.S. information return reporting or backup withholding rules. Caution: Form W-8 does not exempt the payee from the 30% (or lower treaty) nonresident withholding rates."
Interestingly again no OMB control number issued for the W-8 either, which explains why the form in the purpose section explains to the claimant of "foreign status" that he can notify the payer [read withholding agent and/or employer], mortgage interest recipient, etc., etc., with a "substantially similar statement" that they are a nonresident alien individual, foreign entity, or exempt foreign person not subject to certain U.S. information return reporting or backup withholding rules."
<< WARNING... Social Commentary On! >> Besides the plethora of foreigners eluding the requirement to pay taxes (again only the foreigners from countries with whom we have current tax treaties) on "income" as specified and derived from certain activity within the United States, we also have our own citizens' capital fleeing these shores to setup offshore IBC's, and trusts to operate in. Citizens setup these statutorily recognized structures in jurisdictions where they can trade freely here and abroad to either escape a perceived tax requirement, or in some cases the citizen knows it is not necessary to take this route of offshore structuring according to the law, but because the law is being so grossly misapplied here by the IRS they feel they have no choice but to venture off to a friendly foreign jurisdiction which will protect their money. Funny but true. I certainly do not blame citizens who feel it necessary to play the offshore game, for as long as it lasts, but the framers, whose idea of taxation and requirements for such to fund the government here, and which can be summed up in six words: "Citizens abroad, and foreigners at home", are certainly rolling over in their graves. And the founders, who knows how they must feel, they may be laughing uncontrollably at how foolish they were to leave a country such as this to a bunch of spineless idiots. What a mixed-up world we do live in. << Social Commentary Off >>
The following is for those who truly just work for themselves in the good ol' U. S. of A:
Congratulations! Keep up the good work - this year you did not subsidized all social welfare programs which are tearing apart our Republic and which are repugnant to the US Constitution. You can hold your head up with pride as you put that much more stress upon the backs of the mindless Joe six-packs who whine... "pay your fair share."
Wishing you a tax-free day,
The Tax Freedom 101 Staff
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