Can anyone name the bill or piece of legislation that makes paying income tax obligatory in the US?

The US Constitution:

Sixteenth Amendment - Income Tax

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"The Congress shall have power to lay and collect taxes on incomes, from whatever source derived, without apportionment among the several States, and without regard to any census or enumeration."

EDIT: someone misinterpreted this section for you, so I will correct it. "Without apportionment" means without basing the tax on a state's population. -- the "without regard to any census or enumeration" is a clarification of that comment.

No laws or bills are required because it is an actual amendment to the Constitution. Just like freedom of speech is protected, so is the power of the federal government to collect income taxes.

The 16th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution authorizes Congress to tax income, from whatever source derived. Congress did just that when it passed the IRS Tax Code.

A lot of people have said there are no laws saying they have to pay income taxes. The courts have told them they were wrong.

The federal income tax was founded to finance World War 1 and was supposed to stop after the war. But as usual, once the government gets in your pocket they don't ever leave. I don't believe there is any legislation regarding this but don't hold me to that. But legal or no, they have become so powerful that they can cause you real problems if you fight them.

What I do understand is that you cannot be compelled to sign your returns as that takes away your protection under the fifth ammendment. But that will also raise red flags with them.

It is a true case of government overstepping their grounds to me. There are many ways to raise money to run the country without it. It is just the easy way for the politicos to get their hands on our money and control us.

The federal income tax is competely voluntary on paper. There is no law saying you have to pay it, however the IRS will bully you into paying it, and they will always get a judge that will side with them when it goes to trial. There is no law, anywhere on the books that says you have to pay it, and the supreme court has ruled twice that you don't have to pay it. However the guys with the guns and power are the ones robbing you, Its hard to fight them, but people have and won.

I don't know the exact portion of the Constitution that allows for the levying of taxes, but I can tell you from empirical evidence that not paying them will cause you the pains of Hell after the IRS comes in and seizes all your assets and sells them off for pennies on the dollar to pay said taxes. I cannot tell you the amount of times in my life that someone I knew got wangled into all those tax evasion schemes and then lived to utterly regret becoming involved with them when Uncle Sam showed up at their doors with his hand out. Don't get bamboozled into believing these self delusional groups. You gotta pay em, so just pay em.

Title 26 section 1: Tax imposed

http://www4.law.cornell.edu/uscode/usc_sec_26_0000...

Title 26 section 7203: Penalties for willful failure to pay tax

http://www4.law.cornell.edu/uscode/uscode26/usc_se...

Both sections were originally enacted as part of Public Law 83-591, the Internal Revenue Act of 1954.

Yes, it's constitutional.

Yes, it applies to you.

Yes, the people who answered otherwise are wrong.

Nobody said you had to like the tax laws. If you want to change them, do it through the political system.

More information here:

http://www.quatloos.com/hereisthelaw.htm

and here:

http://docs.law.gwu.edu/facweb/jsiegel/Personal/ta...

and much more here:

http://evans-legal.com/dan/tpfaq.html

The courts have said that income tax is the law. They have the final say, not Joe Blow on the internet.

I've heard that before but why don't you ask a tax attorney. If we didn't pay taxes, how would we get public services that we all need so badly? Who would pave roads? Who would provide health care to the needy, schools for kids to grow and learn, the list goes on and on?

The IRS came to be during prohibition. And to answer your question, income tax was never ratified by the states.

Heard that before too and I believe it is True. There is no law that requires us to pay income tax. Write to your congressman and ask them to research it for you.

there is no law, if you go to court for not paying , and ask to see the law , your case will be thrown out.

second, its an illegal apportioned tax. the constitution, syas the irs is illegal and so is the federal reserve,

sadly this country was almost ready for a revolution, and they went and put a black face on the government, now people "think" "change" is coming... oh things are changing alright, for the worse...