Not Written for You: The Income Tax Hidden in Plain Sight
Part 13 of 13 Ask the Question Throughout this series, we have read the statutes, the definitions, the Treasury Decisions, and the Supreme Court holdings.…
Not Written for You: The Income Tax Hidden in Plain Sight
Part 12 of 13 The Loop That Locks It Down Over the course of this series, we have examined the statutes, the definitions, the Treasury…
Not Written for You: The Income Tax Hidden in Plain Sight
Part 11 of 13 The State That Isn’t Your State When an American reads the word “State” in a federal statute, the assumption is immediate:…
Not Written for You: The Income Tax Hidden in Plain Sight
Part 10 of 13 Follow the Form Ask an IRS employee which return a person with income tax liability is expected to file. Without a…
Not Written for You: The Income Tax Hidden in Plain Sight
Part 9 of 13 No Chapter for You The Internal Revenue Code organizes its withholding provisions into chapters. Each chapter addresses a specific collection mechanism…
Not Written for You: The Income Tax Hidden in Plain Sight
Part 7 of 13 The Privilege Tax In Part 6, we established that the Constitution permits only two classes of tax: direct taxes, which must…
While the World Sells Bonds, Bitcoin Rises Through It
The world is finding out, all at once, what a government’s promise is actually worth. The U.S. 10-year is sitting near 5.3%, a yield this…
Not Written for You: The Income Tax Hidden in Plain Sight
Part 2 of 13 Who Is the “Employee”? From Part 1, we know that when Congress uses the word “includes” in a definition, the listed…
Not Written for You: The Income Tax Hidden in Plain Sight
Part 1 of 13 The Most Important Word You’ve Never Read There is a word in the federal tax code that controls the meaning of…
The Bill of Rights Series
"The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to…