April 15 is upon us again. The season of coffee jitters and cussing as accountants and taxpayers alike spend innumerable hours trying to figure out how to fill out ever more complicated forms with incomprehensible instructions.

Millions of people have already filed and have made an error related to a new line on their federal tax form. This line is for the Rate Reduction Credit, which taxpayers use if they did NOT receive last summer's Advance Payment for the maximum amount for their filing status.
Rebate Errors

The IRS has automatically corrected most of the errors and amended those tax returns. Now Congress has passed yet another "economic stimulus" bill that is retroactive to 2001 (see Tax News, above), so many taxpayers will have to file amended returns to take advantage of the changes.

Last year I spent the evening of April 16 (the 15th fell on a Sunday so the filing date was extended to the 16th) standing on the road on the way to the Provo, Utah, main post office handing out flyers on the insanity of the income tax and talking to folks about alternatives. These were people who had procrastinated until the last possible moment and had spent the final weekend cramming like school kids facing a tough exam.

Nearly every person agreed that something should be done about the income tax, but most could not even imagine doing away with it altogether. The question asked most often was "…but how will they pay for the government without the income tax?"

How indeed! Read Article I, Sections 8 and 9 of the Constitution at:
http://www.detaxus.com/members/library/constitution.html

If Congress stuck with the enumerated functions assigned to the House and Senate and didn't try to run the States and control the Citizens (both of which exceed the authority of Congress), there would be enough revenue from excise taxes, import duties and the creation of "money" to more than cover the cost of government.

NO INCOME TAX IS NEEDED.

Cory Layne
Editor

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