Is 'Friending' in Your Future? Better Pay Your Taxes First
By LAURA SAUNDERS | Wall Street Journal
Tax deadbeats are finding someone actually reads their MySpace and Facebook postings: the taxman.
State revenue agents have begun nabbing scofflaws by mining information posted on social-networking Web sites, from relocation announcements to professional profiles to financial boasts.
In Minnesota, authorities were able to levy back taxes on the wages of a long-sought tax evader after he announced on MySpace that he would be returning to his home town to work as a real-estate broker and gave his employer's name. The state collected several thousand dollars, the full amount due.
Meanwhile, agents in Nebraska collected $2,000 from a deejay after he advertised on his MySpace page that he would be working at a big public party.
In California, which has recently been so strapped for revenue it has had to pay some bills with IOUs, agents are also using social Web sites. When one delinquent was identified as a rigger of sails, a curious collection agent searched his name and the term online and found a discussion board used by local riggers. In one thread someone asked where the rigger was because his store had closed, and a reply was posted, "Oh, he moved across the bay." The agent found the man and collected a four-figure sum.
Most people don't need to pay income/Social Security taxes
just go to www.losthorizons.com. Tens of thousands of people stopped paying all Income, Social Security and Medicare taxes. Just read the law.On the site they actually have hundreds of scanned checks that people got back.
It is basically, if you didn't get money from the federal government or their instrumentalities(like banks), you don't pay any taxes.
That simple!!!
But you need to read the law and do it exactly like it is in the law or you might get in trouble like Shiff's dad.
It is a lot of information and you be better off ordering his book, but it worth it's weight in gold.
Just imagine, if all Ron Paul supporters would stop paying LEGALLY all taxes, how much money we would have to finance the movement!
The guv is probably spending
The guv is probably spending just as much money to track these people down as they collect. It is a total waste.
http://www.meetup.com/RP2012GrandJunctionCO
Despirate times call for
Despirate times call for despirate measures. NWO is getting despirate.They know they have but a short time.
Good people do Good deeds
and are no respecter of person
The major problem associated with the Federal income tax.....
dilemna is as follows: Those whom end up being labled tax deadbeats or even tax protestors, most ideologically argue subject matter which consistently is shot down in Federal courts. They argue about how much they owe or do not owe and other frivolous arguments. Their approach should argue liability and the lack there of. I am not liable to pay a federal income tax so it does not matter how much the IRS says I owe. You must stick with your guns and go the whole nine yards or just flat out pay the Federal income tax. You cannot do both for they are mutually exclusive.
If it's true that the
powers that be would like to see the end of the internet, they will lose a great crime fighting weapon. (sarcasm)
If you break the law and
If you break the law and then are dumb enough continue posting incriminating information about yourself on a public website, then you deserve everything you get.
Break what law?
There is no corporate gain in deejaying. Big f*ing deal.
Colchester, New London County, Connecticut
Reading Comprehension 101
He wasn't in trouble for deejaying. The law just happened to catch up to him (for what offense, we don't know as the article didn't divulge those details) after he publicly advertised his schedule and whereabouts at a party.
If you're a public figure trying to dodge the taxman, then you should expect something like this to happen and be prepared for it.
hahaha Tirade you flunked
Reading Comprehension. Clearly, the "offense" was that the IRS claimed he owed money. As to the law that he allegedly broke, there is no such law.
"Since August, 2003, the government has failed to prove its claims in income tax-related cases to at least three juries. These recent acquittals support claims that government has no authority to tax wages as income and no “law” compels employers to withhold a portion of employees’ wages."
Public figure? Oh, you mean like Timothy Geithner?
You're either a government shill, someone who thinks of all Ron Paul supporters as "scofflaws," or just a mean, petty SOB.
BTW, I pay taxes not because I feel I owe them but because the IRS is a criminal organization that will and can take everything you own.
Stop making assumptions
Again, the article did not specifically state why the deejay owed $2,000. You're assuming that it's based on income tax, but it could have very well been taxes owed on something else.
Furthermore, even the most proud and patriotic income tax dodger would agree that running from the IRS and praying that they don't find you is an overall bad strategy. It makes you appear extremely guilty and won't win any sympathies with a judge or jury. You're better off hiring a lawyer and making your stand through the correct channels.
P.S. I'm a "government shill" and anti-Ron Paul and a "petty SOB" just because you disagree with me? That's not only ridiculous, but incredibly close-minded and disappointing. We need everyone we can get in the Liberty movement and resorting to name-calling and baseless accusations every time there is a minor disagreement isn't going to win any supporters. All your attitude does is reinforce the mainstream's idea that we're angry, irrational nutjobs.
They aren't "My Taxes" as I don't owe them.
I really wish people would stop using that phrase.
I have no argument with the income tax as written. I have serious disagreements with how it is enforced and interpreted to apply to everyone under the sun.
The Law
With all those "authorities" reminding other people you have to pay your taxes or face "justice," I have one question first: where in the law which requires me to pay income taxes in the first place?
FYI, on the 2nd from the last paragraph on my link, there is Ron Paul himself saying there is no law.
some law sent Peter S's dad to jail
That is the one you could point to.
(Don't get me wrong. I deplore the income tax as a form of slavery. But, the "show us the law" conversation is a distraction..like the birther conversation.
"some law" isn't the law
Which law sent Peter S's dad to jail? 26 USC ??? "Some law" doesn't answer the question. Now, samadamscw (right below this) refers to Dave Champion, and that is spot on. Before the end of this year, Champion will be finishing his book, Income Tax: The Final Word. Those of you that are a nontaxpayer, or would like to be a nontaxpayer with peace of mind, should read this book.
He went to jail because he didn't read the law.
He kept filing paper work that was evidence that he owed the tax, and/or wanted to be treated as if he did. Then he claimed he didn't owe it. You can't do that.
If you are not:
1) a non-citizen earning domestic source income,
2) a foreign corporation earning domestic source income,
3) an employee of the federal government or on a government contract,
4) a with-holding agent for 1-3, then
the tax has not been imposed on you. Unless of course you ELECT to be treated as if it has by filing certain paperwork, like a W-4 "REQUEST for withholding."
I know, I know, most employers don't understand they aren't required to make employment conditional on that form and many will simply not hire you or fire you for refusal to file it. But that doesn't mean you are required to file it, or that they have to fire you if you don't. It is simply their lack of knowledge and their propensity to be bullied by the IRS or their willingness to listen to lawyers who don't know any better.
The fact of the matter is, unless you fit into one of the above categories, or ask to be treated as such, then you don't owe the tax. Irwin Schiff filed W-4's and 1040's and then claimed he wasn't a "taxpayer." Yet those forms are only for "taxpayers" to fill out and file. On the one hand he was claiming the law applied to him, and then he tried to say it didn't. They used his own actions as evidence against him in court, and THAT is why he went to jail. To this day, he refuses to believe this is why he is there. (as last I heard)
If you want a more thorough explanation on this, visit:
http://originalintent.org
Read the articles which are short and sweet, and if so inclined, listen to his podcasted radio show at http://davechampionshow.com/
He covers the Schiff saga in the following shows:
October 29, 2005
October 22, 2005
August 14, 2004
April 17, 2004
February 7, 2004
June 21, 2003
and most importantly discussing Schiff's tactics on August 30, 2003.
last year's winter coat
I guess it would be smart, then, not to tell you all what I found wrinkled up in a pocket from last year's winter coat.
Does this have implications for us here?
I know most of us do not use our names, but how far does their power reach and are some people here at risk of the same fate by posting under handles?
This is pretty scary
Oh I know, I've been around
Oh I know, I've been around here for a while and can tell some of them, but I think many of them go with the flow and are just taking names and tracking IP's
I was hoping they were just taking the names of people that sound like they might commit some type of violence, but based on history, it is a lot more evil and invasive than that.
I just don't know what the legal implications are of posting something under releative anonymity being translated into an IRS investigation, anyone with info on that please share