Legality of Income Taxes

Dana Prasatik

Professor VandeZande

English 165 .019

19 October 2007

Legality of Income Taxes

The issue regarding the legality of income tax on labor is really a sensational one that it gets my attention right away from the moment I heard other people saying that it is not included in the bounds of our constitution the imposition of the said taxation . In to verify this claim , I made my own study regarding the legality of the said taxation scheme and I found out that there is no statement on our

br constitution or in the Internal Revenue Code stating that we are required to pay an income tax from our labor . Therefore , what is the basis of the government officials for charging us income taxes on labor if there is no single statement on our constitution that would supplement the said taxation schemes ? With this , I may say , that income tax on labor is illegal for there is no statement in our constitution or even in the Internal Revenue Code saying that we have to pay for our labor

With my position stated above , let me first further elaborate my arguments . According to our constitution , there are only two types of income that is being imposed by our government and they are the direct and indirect income taxes ( Chapter 1 : Constitutional Taxation ' 1 Direct taxes include income taxes on wages and salaries of the citizens Therefore , income tax on labor is not included in the direct taxes Moreover , the term indirect tax ' was not used in the constitution but rather any tax that is not direct . But this any tax that is not direct ' includes Duties , Imposts and Excises . Once again , income tax on labor is not included into this type of income tax . Either of the said two types of income tax did not even give any possibility that income tax on labor is included into at least one of them . There are really income taxes that are of malicious in nature and that most of us could help but to doubt the credibility of the said tax scheme

As said by Edwin R .A . Seligman , the Supreme Court of the United States has thus held that certain kinds of income taxes are indirect , that certain other kinds of income taxes are direct , and that still other kinds of income taxes are invalid , irrespective of whether they are direct or indirect (2

As for the Internal Revenue Code , there is also vagueness in the definition of what income ' is . Although it has been cited in the definitions of terms in Title 26 of the Internal Revenue Code , but of them define the meaning of the term income . On the other hand there are some legal cases that give their own definition of income as applicable to their situation and period . Like for example the case between Staples and US wherein they define income as tantamount to gain which could also coined as profit based from the 16th Amendment...