• Tax protester Sixteenth Amendment arguments are assertions that the imposition of the U.S. federal income tax is illegal because the Sixteenth Amendment...
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    The Sixteenth Amendment (Amendment XVI) to the United States Constitution allows Congress to levy an income tax without apportioning it among the states...
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  • section of the tax code; see the Tax protester arguments article for an overview). Law Professor Allen D. Madison has described tax protesters as "those who...
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  • Tax protesters in the United States advance a number of constitutional arguments asserting that the imposition, assessment and collection of the federal...
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  • Tax protester arguments are arguments made by people, primarily in the United States, who contend that tax laws are unconstitutional or otherwise invalid...
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  • the Sixteenth Amendment, and had been determined to be insignificant. (See Tax protester constitutional arguments.) Arguments that the Sixteenth Amendment...
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    tax protester arguments have been raised asserting that the federal income tax is unconstitutional, including discredited claims that the Sixteenth Amendment...
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  • ratification of the Sixteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution, has upheld this argument. See tax protester arguments about taxation of labor...
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  • taxes. Rather, petitioner has raised only the tired, discredited arguments which are characterized as tax protester rhetoric. A petition to the Tax Court...
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  • litigation Tax choice Tax resistance Tax protester constitutional arguments Tax protester Sixteenth Amendment arguments David F. Burg. A World History of Tax Rebellions:...
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  • taxpayer’s argument – that because of the Sixteenth Amendment, wages were not taxable – was rejected by the Court; taxpayer’s argument that an income tax on wages...
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  • We the People Foundation (category Tax resistance in the United States)
    People Congress, Inc. Tax protester arguments Tax protester constitutional arguments Tax protester statutory arguments Tax protester history We The People...
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    from prior laws, incorporated in the Sixteenth Amendment, as "all income from whatever source derived". The tax allowed deductions for business expenses...
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  • The first permanent income tax was established by the Revenue Act of 1913, after the ratification of the Sixteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution...
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  • Eisner v. Macomber (category United States Sixteenth Amendment case law)
    the shareholder was not income to the shareholder under the Sixteenth Amendment. An income tax that was imposed by the Revenue Act of 1916 on such a dividend...
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    Constitution provided for a federal income tax, and posed the tax protester argument that the Sixteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution was never...
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    February 3, 1913, with ratification of the Sixteenth Amendment, Congress gained the authority to levy an income tax without apportioning it among the states...
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  • ratification of the Sixteenth Amendment in 1913. The text of the amendment was clear in its aim: The Congress shall have power to lay and collect taxes on income...
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    annual meeting voted to endorse the Fifteenth Amendment. Elizabeth Cady Stanton, "The Sixteenth Amendment," The Revolution, April 29, 1869, p. 266. Quoted...
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    The United States Bill of Rights comprises the first ten amendments to the United States Constitution. Proposed following the often bitter 1787–88 debate...
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    in competition with its citizens. Repeals the Sixteenth Amendment, income tax, estate tax, and gift tax, and limits the government only to Constitutionally...
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  • period, a federal income tax was imposed, first during the Civil War as a war measure and then permanently with the Sixteenth Amendment in 1913. Before this...
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    They pushed the argument that states and localities needed the tax money. President Herbert Hoover proposed a new constitutional amendment that was vague...
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  • Cheek v. United States (category Tax evasion in the United States)
    reversed the conviction of John L. Cheek, a tax protester, for willful failure to file tax returns and tax evasion, who was convicted again during retrial...
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  • Arthur Porth (category Tax protesters in the United States)
    1902 – February 8, 1993) was a Wichita, Kansas building contractor and tax protester who ran afoul of the federal government in the mid-20th century. In...
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  • Association. 1869: The Anti-Sixteenth Amendment Society is formed. 1870: The Utah Territory grants suffrage to women. 1870: The 15th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution...
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    Sixteenth Amendment, ratified in 1913, extended power of taxation to include income taxes. The Nineteenth, Twenty-fourth, and Twenty-sixth amendments...
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    approve the amendment, and later that month Secretary of State Knox declared that the United States had ratified the Sixteenth Amendment. After Taft left...
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    Vivien Kellems (category Tax protesters in the United States)
    other aspects of income tax in the United States. She was also a fervent supporter of voting reform and the Equal Rights Amendment. Born in Des Moines, Iowa...
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    Farmers' Loan & Trust Co. (1895) ruled a federal income tax to be unconstitutional; the Sixteenth Amendment later superseded the decision. Fuller's opinion in...
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