Irwin Schiff's How Anyone Can Stop Paying Income Taxes / The amazing new best-seller that exposes the fraud and deception by which the IRS extracts income taxes from uninformed Americans . . . and show you how you can put a stop to it -- Now! (SIGNED)

Schiff, Irwin, with Howy Murzin

ISBN 10: 0930374037 / ISBN 13: 9780930374037

Published by Freedom Books, Hamden, Connecticut, 1982

About this Item

Signed "Irwin Schiff" (name only) in blue ballpoint to top of blank FFE. We knew Irwin; this signature is a good match for others in our possession. Number line 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2, only -- presumably the second printing. Dust jacket has a closed one-inch tear to top of rear panel. Disclaimer opposite copyright page states "There is always an element of risk in standing up for one's lawful rights in the face of an oppressive taxing authority backed by a biased judiciary. Therefore, the author and publisher disclaim any responsibility for any liability or loss incurred as a consequence of the use or application . . . of any advice or information presented herein." Whether or not it's pragmatically wise to follow his advice, Schiff's historical research into the purposely confusing federal tax code and law (the code is not "law") -- and his insistence that as per the Brushaber and Eisner Supreme Court rulings the 16th amendment did not repeal the constitutional requirement that any federal tax must be collected either as a direct tax (divided among the states and then assessed by capitation) or else an indirect excise -- is intriguing. The federal response -- that the federal income tax is "neither kind of tax" and can thus be collected by means not legal for either kind of constitutional tax -- seems to come down to "because we say so and we've got the guns and the badges." In October of 2015, Irwin Schiff died in federal prison at the age of 87, of a cancer contracted there and not optimally treated, having been jailed for exercising his First Amendment rights on this subject, without ever being allowed by the federal courts to substantially present his findings to a jury -- citing chapter and verse of their own law and the relevant Supreme Court rulings -- or to confront and cross-examine agents of the Treasury, the "IRS" or the Social Security Administration (his accusers) at length on their claims for the lawfulness and constitutionality of their current collection and enforcement regimes, since of course such a defendant can't be allowed to present a substantive defense over the course of several days, lest the courtroom be "turned into a circus" -- a week of the judge's handsomely compensated time being far more valuable than 20 years of the defendant's. (This is typical of the behavior of today's federal judges, by the way. They so limit the facts and defenses which they will "allow" defense attorneys to present -- especially the constitutionality of the "law" in question -- that the case is largely over before it begins.) 305 pp. Copies signed by this First Amendment martyr are uncommon. Reduced from $825. As with all our items priced higher than $90, this item will be shipped "signature required.".

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Irwin Schiff's How Anyone Can Stop Paying Income Taxes / The amazing new best-seller that exposes the fraud and deception by which the IRS extracts income taxes from uninformed Americans . . . and show you how you can put a stop to it -- Now! (SIGNED)
• Publisher: Freedom Books, Hamden, Connecticut
• Publication Date: 1982
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0930374037
• ISBN 13: 9780930374037
• Binding: Hardcover
• Printing: 2nd Printing
• Condition: Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good
• Signed: Signed by Author(s)
• Seller catalogs:
  • Organized crime
  • Conspiracies
  • The Freedom Bookshelf

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Synopsis

An analysis of the legality of the income tax suggests that payment is voluntary and recommends ways to avoid paying taxes