The Only Thing Missing From CtC Is YOU

...and the relentless distractions from the "tax honesty community" are there just to keep you out of the picture, or to make you stumble and fall.

LAST WEEK'S LEAD STORY IN THE MID-EDITION UPDATE concerns yet another in the ten-year long, tens-of-thousands-deep river of federal and state acknowledgements of the completeness and correctness of CtC in revealing everything any American needs to know about the income tax. This acknowledgement, while otherwise a typical complete refund of everything withheld and paid-in-- Social Security and all, and with interest-- merits special note for the filing warrior's carefully-reported observations of the internal tax agency proceedings involved in handling this amendment of a pre-education original filing of three years prior. As such, this is one of those acknowledgements that especially emphasizes CtC's comprehensive accuracy.

In the case of this victory, what was filed is on display, the outcome is on display, the steps taken by the tax agency were all carefully supervised and reported. It is plain that nothing was lacking in the filing, and that the filing not only needed nothing more, but that what was needed was nothing more or other than exactly what CtC describes.

While speculation that perhaps something could have been left out of this claim while still producing the same expected and desired outcome wouldn't be irrational (although no one has ever produced any evidence in support of such a proposition), it IS irrational to assert that what WAS done was insufficient or incorrect. This is particularly clear in light of the fact that this procedure-and-outcome is only one what has grown to be a huge number of identical events steadily taking place for ten years now, and involving more than three dozen federal, state and local tax agencies.

In short, disputing, challenging or denying that CtC is entirely complete and correct in all that it says about the tax and law is IRRATIONAL. By the same token, giving credence to anything said by anyone that contradicts anything in CtC (which necessarily includes any argument that anything about the tax NOT said in CtC is nonetheless true or relevant to the operation of the tax on ordinary Americans, or to the process by which those to whom the tax doesn't apply properly invoke the law on their behalf) is IRRATIONAL.

And yet, even while I was writing the story of this latest revealing acknowledgment of the unique and comprehensive correctness of CtC, my inbox was filling with eyewash churned out by trolls, agents provocateur,

charlatan "gurus" and stubborn or moronic "useful idiots", all of whose claptrap has polluted the "tax honesty community" and the internet for decades. How can this stuff still find a purchase on ANYBODY'S mind by now, ten years into this evidence and this scholarship and these crack-you-up-the-side-of-the-head especially emphatic and unambiguous acknowledgements?

This week alone I heard that there are people contending that "Section 83" of Title 26 ("Property transferred in connection with performance of services") is where the REAL liberation from the improper application of the tax is to be found, because it is there that "income" is defined as the excess of your gains over the labor-property spent in achieving them. This is an "income is profit" argument, and a "basis-in-labor" argument, and it all might sound good (if one overlooks that "income" is NOT defined as "profit") except for the fact that section 83 has only been around since 1969, and the tax had been being applied to people-- properly and improperly-- since 1862...

More to the point, it all might sound good EXCEPT THAT CtC DOESN'T SAY ANYTHING ABOUT SECTION 83 (because all of this IS nonsense, both as to what the section says, what the section concerns, and its relevance to how the tax operates in regard to any ordinary American). WHY IS IT NOT SHOUTED OUT OF EVERY NEWSGROUP AND CHATROOM AND FORUM, AND ITS PURVEYORS DRUMMED OUT OF THE COMMUNITY AS THE AGENTS-PROVOCATEUR THEY ARE?

I heard this week about people purveying nonsense about "tax class 5", the notion that IRS publications (such as "Document 6209") declare that forms like W-2s, 1099s and others only concern "tax class 5" and that this is just "estate and gift taxes". I didn't bother wading through to try to discover what was the real argument being made based on this disinformation; this might have been kind of grimly entertaining, but who's got that kind of time? Unfortunately, that's kind of the point: those who purvey this kind of nonsense have exactly YOUR time in mind-- if they can get you poring through the swamp chasing down this kind of stuff, you won't be looking at the real truth about the tax, or implementing it and spreading it to others.

So let's just show the following (from IRM 21.07.005 with the important parts in bold):

"21.7.5.4.5  (01-01-2005)
Form 706-QDT, U.S. Estate Tax Return for Qualified Domestic Trusts

1. Trustees or designated filers of a qualified domestic trust (QDT) use Form 706-QDT to figure and report the estate tax due on certain distributions from the QDT. Amount of tax on the value of the property remaining in the QDT on the date of the surviving spouse's death must also be figured.

21.7.5.4.5.1  (12-14-2012)
Form 706-QDT Processing

1. Forms 706-QDT are filed and processed in Cincinnati through the NMF Accounting function.
2. They are processed as:
   • MFT 53
   • Document Code 85
   • Tax Class 6"

This (from IRM Part 21.010.001) is also helpfully clarifying, and for some reason is never included with all the carrying-on about "Document 6209" and the supposed significance of references to "tax class 5":

"The IRS Electronic Publishing Catalog contains a number of documents that can be used for research purposes. One of the most frequently used is Document 6209, IRS Processing Codes and Information. This document can also be found on-line through SERP.

Note:

If there is a discrepancy between the Document 6209 and a specific IRM, the IRM takes precedence."

"Tax class 5" is NOT what these folks say it is, and in any event, it has nothing to do with how the tax is improperly applied to ordinary Americans, and what those ordinary Americans can do about such improper applications. IF IT DID, IT WOULD BE IN CtC.

The fact that this stuff is NOT in CtC says that it is irrelevant at best, if not outright nonsense. WHY IS THIS CLAPTRAP NOT SHOUTED OUT OF EVERY NEWSGROUP AND CHATROOM AND FORUM, AND ITS PURVEYORS DRUMMED OUT OF THE COMMUNITY AS THE AGENTS-PROVOCATEUR THEY ARE?

Everyone promoting and posting this crap is thereby revealed as charlatans, frauds and enemies of the truth-- your enemies-- because they are promoting this crap in lieu of the truth. These falsehoods are not just innocent mistakes, and here's why you know that: everyone who spreads this stuff HAS to know about CtC.

It is simply not plausible that ANYBODY in the "tax honesty community" does not. What has been being done by students of CtC and losthorizons.com is not only unprecedented in American history, it is the veritable Holy Grail of the "tax honesty community". It is the one place the "tax honesty" war has actually been and is actually being prosecuted and won. For anyone in that community to not know of CtC and losthorizons.com is like a "Civil War buff" not knowing of Gettysburg.

So, anyone claiming to be an activist in the "tax honesty community" and purporting to share knowledge relevant to the tax who doesn't simply spend his or her time sending people to losthorizons.com, or introducing them directly to CtC, is a charlatan, pure and simple. Such persons have an agenda, and it is NOT helping other folks learn the truth about the tax. Instead, that agenda can only be KEEPING people from learning the truth about the tax.

Finally, I want you all to know something: I HATE writing angry articles like this. In fact, I hate writing anything pointing out or explaining anyone's errors or misunderstandings or bad information. My fulminations above notwithstanding, I really believe most folks forwarding errors are well-meaning (if nonetheless lazy or driven by SOME kind of agenda that prevents them from becoming aware of their errors, even if it's only ego). Even those who AREN'T entirely well-meaning are forgiven, at least once they have stopped.

But in light of the pain and suffering I and my family have endured for ten years now to communicate the truth about the tax, and the harm disinformation does to so many others in other ways, I can't keep from expressing myself about this stuff in the hope that YOU will step in and do your part to shut this destructive crap down.

America will not fully enjoy the liberating benefit of the truth about the income tax until this errant bs no longer clouds the many minds that it does. Please help clear it away.