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dE asked in Politics & GovernmentLaw & Ethics · 1 decade ago

What law requires anyone to pay federal income taxes?

I have youtubed this to death and am unable to find any such law. Can someone point out to me the actual federal law that requires anyone to pay a federal income tax?

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  • 1 decade ago
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    http://docs.law.gwu.edu/facweb/jsiegel/Personal/ta... Have a quick look there.

    To answer: The Internal Revenue Code is the law that requires people to pay taxes (and yes, the Internal Revenue Code is the law).

    The Internal Revenue Code is law. It was passed by the United States Congress. It does not come from the IRS. The IRS writes regulations that help implement the Code, but the Code itself was passed by Congress. Under the Constitution, if a bill is passed by both houses of Congress and signed by the President, it is the law. That's what happened with the Internal Revenue Code, so the Code is the law.

    The Code is called the "Internal Revenue Code" because that's the name chosen for it by the Congress. (See section 7701(a)(29).) So it does have the word "Code" in its name. But it is, absolutely, law passed by the Congress.

  • 1 decade ago

    Article 1, Section 8, Clause 1 and

    the 16th Amendment

  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    Wow maybe you should use google instead of youtube. Perhaps you should look at the Constitution itself instead of just listening to the deniers. This LAW has been in place probably your whole life time.

  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    If you're trying to learn about laws from YouTube then you are never going to arrive at an intelligent answer. Seriously, people use that site to gain some kind of knowledge?

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  • 1 decade ago

    The might equals right laws. They have lots of men with guns and prisons, thus you pay taxes or they make your life miserable. Does this sound like the mafia too you? Not to me, it sounds far worse.

  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    yeah um... in the constitution it is a delegated power and a federal power. they can tax you.

  • 1 decade ago

    16th amendment

    Source(s): 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.
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