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Summary: THE GOVERNMENT HAS BANNED THIS INFORMATIVE BOOK
Review: I purchased this book several years ago, and have since learned the truth about the voluntary nature of our tax system. Irwin Schiff has been sharing his findings with Americans for many years now. Mr. Schiff states in his book, and has ample documentation to back him up, that the Income Tax is based on voluntary compliance. I spent many hours researching the material in the book, and have found it to be true. YOU CAN LEGALLY STOP PAYING INCOME TAX AND LEGALLY STOP YOUR EMPLOYER FROM WITHOLDING FEDERAL TAXES. Unfortunately, the IRS is not happy with Mr. Schiff. I don't think the Federal Government is either. Since they can't lock him up, they have chosen to try to silence this brave individual. This book has been banned, and a gag order has been placed on Irwin Schiff and his associates. They cannot even discuss the material in this book. What does this book teach that the government doesn't want you to know? Plenty! Get your own copy and see! I feel that every American should read this book. It is truly an eye opener. In addition, I also recommend the book The Great Income Tax Hoax, also written by Irwin Schiff.
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Summary: but a warning to the zero filer...
Review: I too love Irwin. But please beware that the IRS always waits many years before it goes after someone for not paying taxes. It does this for 2 good reasons: first, to be able to present a long history of non-compliance. This is so one cannot easily say "I didn't know" or "I only forgot one time". The second reason is so the penalties add up. Remember, the IRS is a "profit motivated" group. If breaking your legs works, they do it, but if waiting 5 years and a courtroom works better, then that will be it. If you are loud, they might make an exception, like they did with Irwin. But if you like libertarian reading material, and, as I do, believe that the only difference between the Government and the Mafia is that the government flies flags in front of their offices (quoted from Harry Browne), then you will like this book. But don't forget, Irwin has already been to jail on income tax evasion charges.
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Summary: No one can stop paying ALL taxes, but you can the income tax
Review: Irwin's book is the 2nd one I read concerning this issue, and was so well done, I kept investigating the claim of the "tax protesters. The truth be told, Americans have an obligation to pay taxes LAWFULLY imposed. However, as Irwin clearly points out, the irs does not lawfully impose this tax (income), because it is incapable of doing so. Therefore, millions of Americans pay what they think is a tax, while in reality, they are unknowingly contributing to the continuation of the collapse of the American System of Truth in taxation, and taxation WITH represention.
Since Irwin's first edition of this book, it has been updated with up to date info, and the results of years of many people's research into the Greatest crime to be imposed on the American people: The misapplication of the tax laws, by a non-government agency, who operate at the will (or the wilfull ignorance) of the US congress. Facts are facts, and that one cannot be properly disputed by anyone of any intellegence. Irwin's voice in this book, can help you to understand this huge, encompassing problem that is difficult to see, because of its emensity, and its huge volumes of information needed to know, in order to understand it.
"Most people fail to understand the tax laws, because they lack the ablity to understand the questions that arise from it" -author unknown. {please excuse spelling errors and typos]
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Summary: truth
Review: It is true and extremely well researched which is why that judge banned it recently (March 2003). I went to my university law library to verify his references. Unbelievable huh! A judge banned a BOOK! Because this book is banned, (I still can't believe I'm talking about a book!) you cannot get it from Irwin Schiff's site [local website] for the time being. CLEARLY the government is scared to death people will read what's in "The Federal Mafia" (fitting title isn't it?) and are behaving in kind! They are even more scared you'll go to Irwin's seminars because his first amendment right to speak at them dissappeared when the judge banned him from distributing his book. I suspect this because people who go to the seminars are probably MORE likely to do something with the information as opposed to casual readers of his book. First things first: get this book!! I don't care WHAT kind of reference book it is, if the federal government, anybody's federal government is spending millions and using "cooperative" judges to BAN it, any lover of freedom would WANT IT IMMEDIATELY and would GET IT ASAP!
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Summary: Read this book and go to jail?
Review: It's pretty simple: tax protest arguments have never held up in court. Not once. So before you go embarking on some wild "I'm not going to pay my taxes" adventure, take a long, cold, sober look at how the inevitable consequences will affect yourself, your family and your future.
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Summary: If Mr. Schiff is correct why is he under indictment?
Review: Mr. Schiff is currently under federal indictment for conspiracy (18 U.S.C. §371), aiding and assisting in the preparation and filing of [...] federal income tax returns (26 U.S.C. §7206(2), and income tax evasion (26 U.S.C. §7201). Mr. Schiff faces maximum potential sentences totaling forty-three years in jail and $3.25 million in fines. As stated by Eileen J. O'Connor, Assistant Attorney General for the Tax Division, United States Department of Justice, in a press release relating to Mr. Schiff's indictment, "There is no magic way out of paying taxes. If you fall for a scheme to cheat the IRS, you may lose your money to a con artist. You may wind up in federal prison. In the end, you will still owe taxes, and you may also owe interest and penalties."
Kind of makes paying one's fair share of taxes look pretty attractive, huh?
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Summary: Three Year Old Love's Book
Review: My three year old loves the fact that I bring home more than a hundred dollars a week more due to following Irwin's Banned Ideas. He loves that Daddy keeps every penny he makes and doesn't have to work to support any other families. He's glad I only have to work forty hours a week instead of more. All this and he knows he will never be liable to pay the income tax, just like in the first 130 years of our country. He doesn't quite understand how, if Washington, Lincoln and all the other early presidents didn't pay income taxes, we have arrived where we are today...
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Summary: We're from the government and we're here to help you -- not!
Review: Tax lawyers, CPA's and Uncle Sam know a threat to their nest egg when they see it, and Irwin has paid a steep price for the information he has fearlessly broadcast during his lifetime. That doesn't detract one iota from the explosive nature of what he has to say in this book. As he would no doubt tell every reader of The Federal Mafia: read it, look at the exhibits, check them out in a law library or government publication, (or best of all, write your congress-person and see what lame answer you get in reply!). Then decide for yourself if anything he's written offends your reason and common sense. People want to attack the messenger because the beast he's criticizing is too big of a thug to take on alone. Irwin's done it for us and lived to write about it in powerful indictment of a federal agency run amok. Some may find the latter part of the book, where he goes into great detail about his trial and incarceration in the 80's, to be more autobiography than instruction. Yet the transcripts and his eyewitness accounts paint the picture of a judicial branch totally corrupted by the "income" tax. This book is a wakeup call, written in an arresting style that has already been imitated by others just now catching on to the fraud. But most of all, he shows how to defeat the monster that is eroding our liberties and standard of living.
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Summary: Are you willing to lose your citizenship?
Review: There is only one true legal way to not pay income taxes and request a refund of previous years. One must be willing to become a citizen of another country and lose their US Citizen Status.
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Summary: Should be read by every student in America.
Review: This book is an excellent, readable, and meticulously documented analysis of the income tax in America. Schiff proves beyond a shadow of a doubt that the income tax is indeed voluntary and that there is no law that says it has to be paid. Don't believe me? Read the book. One last thing, if there is a law that says one has to pay the income tax, why doesn't the IRS point it out to Mr. Schiff to shut him the hell up?
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