If anyone cares about combatting government propaganda in the US, do this:
Query any search engine for "are US income taxes direct or indirect taxes"
Every one will tell you that they are direct taxes. This is false. The supreme court has exclusively held that income taxes have always been indirect taxes (excises specifically, read about what an excise is in any authoritative source on tax law) in a constitutional sense. (See Brushaber v Union Pacific RR Co. 1916, Moore v U.S. 2024)
The sixteenth amendment did not give congress the power to directly tax citizens (or domestic corporations) and the complexity of the tax code is an attempt to obfuscate this fact, but the code is not inscrutable, it has rules.
Unsure of why this matters? Look up the difference between direct and indirect taxes in US law. None of these deductions matter unless you are a foreign corporation. I have tried commenting about this in other income tax related threads (this is my alt account), but people here don't like the idea that there is government propaganda in the US, or that most people are wrong and blindly accept the socialization about taxation without verifying what the law says.
I realize this is a disturbing truth to accept, not least because it involves accepting that most people who have been prosecuted for income tax crimes are only guilty of ignorance of the true legal purpose of the forms they signed. You can easily verify that most accountants and tax attorneys do not know what they are talking about by asking them this simple question about direct vs indirect taxation.
Query any search engine for "are US income taxes direct or indirect taxes"
Every one will tell you that they are direct taxes. This is false. The supreme court has exclusively held that income taxes have always been indirect taxes (excises specifically, read about what an excise is in any authoritative source on tax law) in a constitutional sense. (See Brushaber v Union Pacific RR Co. 1916, Moore v U.S. 2024)
The sixteenth amendment did not give congress the power to directly tax citizens (or domestic corporations) and the complexity of the tax code is an attempt to obfuscate this fact, but the code is not inscrutable, it has rules.
Unsure of why this matters? Look up the difference between direct and indirect taxes in US law. None of these deductions matter unless you are a foreign corporation. I have tried commenting about this in other income tax related threads (this is my alt account), but people here don't like the idea that there is government propaganda in the US, or that most people are wrong and blindly accept the socialization about taxation without verifying what the law says.
I realize this is a disturbing truth to accept, not least because it involves accepting that most people who have been prosecuted for income tax crimes are only guilty of ignorance of the true legal purpose of the forms they signed. You can easily verify that most accountants and tax attorneys do not know what they are talking about by asking them this simple question about direct vs indirect taxation.
This is not legal advice, it is a wakeup call.