Macmillan Holdings, LLC. Legal Lad, Legal Lad's, QDnow, and Quick and Dirty Tips are all trademarks of Macmillan Holdings, LLC. Paying taxes: legal plan or big, fat sham? Craig A. legal A co-worker of mine is convinced you are not required to pay taxes. Let me rephrase that... he pays taxes throughout the year and then gets 100% return when he files. Funny thing is... the IRS sends him a check for ALL federal income taxes he's paid! Not sure how he does it but he claims paying taxes is voluntary... not required. Once again he pays them but gets every dime back! http://legallad.quickanddirtytips.com/mess-taxes.aspx?commentid=17816#Comments http://legallad.quickanddirtytips.com/mess-taxes.aspx?commentid=17816#Comments Tue, 14 Jul 2009 20:47:35 GMT Patrick legal Yes, the dollar was derived from a standard silver piece. How is it that the Federal Reserve Note is related to the piece of silver? That's mostly rhetorical; I'm not asking for a monetary or exchange medium history of the United States. The point the Kansas Man you refer to was making is the fact that a FR Note is not, in fact, a dollar, or any promissory note standing in place of anything of value. It is, as I'm sure you and economics celebrities of the financial and economic world would agree, a physical representative of a "point" system. (That is, a "funny money" system, or "Rothbucks", for the more cynical of us.) I believe Gary was trying to point out that the operators of a system of a completely centrally controlled economic trade unit should not call said unit a "dollar" when it is clearly not based on any silver(or gold), and should not force, by influence and physical power of a government, the majority of trade within a country to be mediated with it. I believe Gary would consider the central control over the finances, therefore the time, therefore the lives of the people, of said country to be immoral. He might even be so outrageous as to call it slavery, collectivism, or some other word which would ordinarily cause most citizens of the US to take issue. http://legallad.quickanddirtytips.com/mess-taxes.aspx?commentid=17561#Comments http://legallad.quickanddirtytips.com/mess-taxes.aspx?commentid=17561#Comments Thu, 25 Jun 2009 00:41:20 GMT A legal According to Title 26 of the US Code only if you're a person who is a resident of the United States, whereas the term United States is defined as: (9) United States The term "United States" when used in a geographical sense includes only the States and the District of Columbia. (10) State The term "State" shall be construed to include the District of Columbia, where such construction is necessary to carry out provisions of this title. United States Person defined as: The term "United States person" means - (A) a citizen or resident of the United States, (B) a domestic partnership, (C) a domestic corporation, (D) any estate (other than a foreign estate, within the meaning of paragraph (31)), and (E) any trust if - (i) a court within the United States is able to exercise primary supervision over the administration of the trust, and (ii) one or more United States persons have the authority to control all substantial decisions of the trust. http://legallad.quickanddirtytips.com/mess-taxes.aspx?commentid=16782#Comments http://legallad.quickanddirtytips.com/mess-taxes.aspx?commentid=16782#Comments Thu, 30 Apr 2009 07:30:05 GMT A legal According to Title 26 of the US Code only if you're a person who is a resident of the United States, whereas the term United States is defined as: (9) United States The term "United States" when used in a geographical sense includes only the States and the District of Columbia. (10) State The term "State" shall be construed to include the District of Columbia, where such construction is necessary to carry out provisions of this title. United States Person defined as: The term "United States person" means - (A) a citizen or resident of the United States, (B) a domestic partnership, (C) a domestic corporation, (D) any estate (other than a foreign estate, within the meaning of paragraph (31)), and (E) any trust if - (i) a court within the United States is able to exercise primary supervision over the administration of the trust, and (ii) one or more United States persons have the authority to control all substantial decisions of the trust. http://legallad.quickanddirtytips.com/mess-taxes.aspx?commentid=16781#Comments http://legallad.quickanddirtytips.com/mess-taxes.aspx?commentid=16781#Comments Thu, 30 Apr 2009 07:27:54 GMT Tue, 14 Jul 2009 20:47:35 GMT http://legallad.quickanddirtytips.com/mess-taxes.aspx feedback@quickanddirtytips.com (Managing Editor) feedback@quickanddirtytips.com (Webmaster) en-us