So what? I've gone years without filing a damned tax return because I don't owe anything. And the couple of times I realized they owed me something I filed tax returns a year or two late. They don't give a shit unless they think you owe them money (or technically, if you actually do even if they don't know it). CP-Lite warning: no crypto. CDA Warning: Fuck you too. gjeffers@ns.htc.net (Gary Lee Jeffers) scritten:

From STRATEGIC INVESTMENT March 20, 1996 ...

Is the IRS a paper tiger?

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As the IRS teeters on the brink, a fellow named Eddie Kahn has stepped forward and may be about to push the whole creaking mess over the edge. He hasn't got an arrow in his back yet, so he might just succeed. Dis- dainful of "tax protests" such as 5th Amendment or legal tender arguments that quickly get their advocates behind bars, Eddie looked into the stru- ture of federal law. When Congress passes a law, codified as a statute, it then delegates to a regulatory agency the authority to issue the im- plementing regulations specifiying to whom and under what circumstances the statute applies. These regulations must, by law, be published in the Federal Register. Lacking these implementing regulations, the law cannot be applied and has no force. Well, it turns out that the implementing re- gulations for IRS' enforcement statutes-things like the requirement to file a tax return and the authority to place a lien-cannot be found in the Federal Register. When queried on this, the General Counsel for the Office of the Federal Register, Michael White, replied in writing, "Our records indicate that the Internal Revenue Service has not incorporated by reference in the Federal Register a requirement to make an income tax return."