The Great Income Tax Hoax
Welcome to the Net-based copy of 16 chapters of Irwin Schiff's masterpiece on the US "Income Tax"!
Laws are the whitewash that governments use to disguise the ugly fact that they steal money from productive people, then use it to control how they live their lives. Being merely one-sided contracts, laws have no moral validity whatsoever; but eight generations of government schooling have conned Americans into supposing that they are magic, to be held in respect and awe. Accordingly, if there is a tax law, most people tend to obey it.
In this masterpiece, perhaps the most important book he ever wrote, Irwin Schiff shows that there is no such thing; how even that veneer of respectability falls off the "income tax" when its origins are systematically probed.
Chapters 17 and 18 are omitted, for they have been superseded by all of the extensive, legal avoidance techniques that he has developed since completing the book in 1985 and which can be downloaded from his web site. Also omitted for brevity's sake are the extensive Appendices.
Each page of the book is accessible through this Home or Index page as below, just as one might access the pages of the physical book. Each (except this one) consists of an .htm "frame" and a .gif image that was scanned for the purpose; the reader is welcome to save any page on his own PC but to do so, both those files need to be downloaded to the same subdirectory.
Front Cover Inside Front Cover Title Copyright etc Dedication Contents Author Bio Back Cover
Introduction
9 10Chapter 1: Direct vs Indirect Taxes
11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18Chapter 2: Constitutional Restrictions Regarding Direct vs Indirect Taxes
19 20 21 22 23Chapter 3: The Intent of the Constitution
25 26 27 28 29 30Chapter 4: The Federal Government's General Taxing Powers
31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38Chapter 5: What the US Government and America Are All About
39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 50 51 52 53 54Chapter 6: Federal Real Estate Taxes - How They Were Levied and Collected
55 56 57 58 59 60 61 62 63 64 65 66Chapter 7: The Civil War: The Seeds of Tax Tyranny Are Sown
67 68 69 70 71 72 73 74 75 76Chapter 8: The Supreme Court Declares an Income Tax Unconstitutional
77 78 79 80 81 82 83 84 85 86 87 88 89 90 91 92 93 94 95 96 97 98 99 100 101 102 103 104 105 106 107 108 109 110 111 112 113 114 115 116 117 118 119 120 121Chapter 9: The Agitation for the Income Tax, 1895-1909
123 124 125 126 127 128 129 130Chapter 10: The Corporation Exceise Tax of 1909
131 132 133 134 135 136 137 138 139 140 141 142 143 144 145 146 147Chapter 11: The Sixteenth Amendment
149 150 151 152 153 154 155 156 157 158 159 160 161 162 163 164 165 166 167 168 169 170 171 172 173 174 175 176 177 178 179 180Chapter 12: Surprise! The Income Tax is an Excise Tax - the Brushaber Decision
181 182 183 184 185 186 187 188 189 190 191 192 193 194 195 196 197 198 199 200 201 202 203 204Chapter 13: Income - What Is It?
205 206 207 208 209 210 211 212 213 214 215 216 217 218 219 220 221 222Chapter 14: Why No One Can Have Taxable Income
223 224 225 226 227 228 229 230 231 232 233 234 235 236 237 238Chapter 15: Income Tax "Laws" and How the IRS Disregards Them
239 240 241 242 243 244 245 246 247 248 249 250 251 252 253 254 255 256 257 258 259 260 261 262Chapter 16: The Federal "Judiciary"
263 264 265 266 267 268 269 270 271 272 273 274 275 276 277 278 279 280 281 282 283 284 285 286 287 288 289 290 291 292 293 294Comprehensive Subject Index
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