The IRS: In the land of the blind, the one eye is king

Most Americans believe, without any basis in actual law, that they are required to pay income tax to the Internal Revenue Service. If you look into the matter and examine the tax code itself, you will see that the income tax has no basis in law. The U.S. Tax code is mired in complexety and, consequently, very few citizens understand how to protect themselves, were they to stop filing and paying the federal income tax. There have been several interesting cases in which individuals who did not pay their taxes were able to get the IRS to drop the case or the jury to rule in favor of the defendant. As many of us understand, anything that the government requires of its citizenry, especially under threat of incarceration, is supposed to have a basis in law. The forms that the IRS says that you are supposed to file has an OMB (Office of Management and Budget) control number. Unfortunately for the Federal Government, the OMB numbers on the personal income tax forms are invalid; these control numbers have not been approved by the Office of Management and Budget. Bob Lawrence used The Paperwork Reduction Act of 1981 and the invalid OMB numbers on tax forms to get the IRS to drop the case against him and re-imbursing his legal fees.