Digging Deeper

Microsoft Copilot: Cook v. Tait, 265 U.S. 47 (1924) Implications

By ftsig-admin / May 29, 2025 / Comments Off on Microsoft Copilot: Cook v. Tait, 265 U.S. 47 (1924) Implications

EDITORIAL: The “identity theft” and “human trafficking” described in our answers here can be reported to the IRS on the following SEDM form: Identity Theft Affidavit, Form #14.020https://sedm.org/Forms/14-PropProtection/Identity_Theft_Affidavit-f14039.pdf The AI chatbot in this interchange basically SANCTIONS the filing of this form if the IRS unilaterally changes your status from “nonresident alien” to “U.S. person” without…

DEBATE: About the meaning of “United States” in I.R.C. 864(b)

By ftsig-admin / May 21, 2025 / Comments Off on DEBATE: About the meaning of “United States” in I.R.C. 864(b)

QUESTION: I believe your conclusions in this article are errant. PROOF OF FACTS: “United States” INCLUDES (not means) the government, FTSIGhttps://ftsig.org/proof-of-facts-united-states-includes-the-government/#2._EXAMPLE United States is geographical—not governmental. The ultimate source of taxing authority is the government—that is correct. But they are hiding the government meaning by shielding it with the geographical sense. Proof of this can…

Helvering v. Davis, 301 U.S. 619 (1937)

By ftsig-admin / May 15, 2025 / Comments Off on Helvering v. Davis, 301 U.S. 619 (1937)

Case Link: https://scholar.google.com/scholar_case?case=8426251106033758246 The Helvering case was a direct and early challenge to the Social Security Act. This is an excerpt I would like to have a discussion when you have time, about the meaning of “income tax” as stated in the Argument for Petitioners in HELVERING v. DAVIS.: “Title II of the Social Security…

DEBATE: Items identified as FDAP on IRS website include private property

By ftsig-admin / April 26, 2025 / Comments Off on DEBATE: Items identified as FDAP on IRS website include private property

EDITORIAL: This debate surrounds what is “included” in FDAP items listed under 26 U.S.C. 871(a)(1). It does so in the context of a recent PGA golf prize winner who is an alien in relation to United States* and whether his golf winnings would be considered FDAP if he filed as a nonresident alien. THEIR STATEMENT:…

DEBATE: An “individual” is just a human being or natural person in the code and not a privileged fictional entity

By ftsig-admin / April 4, 2025 / Comments Off on DEBATE: An “individual” is just a human being or natural person in the code and not a privileged fictional entity

FALSE STATEMENT: An “individual” is just a human being or natural person in the code and not a privileged fictional entity. REBUTTAL: Anything Congress legislatively creates they own. “All subjects over which the sovereign power of a state extends, are objects of taxation; but those over which it does not extend, are, upon the soundest…

META AI: Implications of 4 U.S.C. 72 on IRS Enforcement Authority

By ftsig-admin / March 27, 2025 / Comments Off on META AI: Implications of 4 U.S.C. 72 on IRS Enforcement Authority

EDITORIAL: For more information on this subject, see: The fact that its called INTERNAL Revenue Service implies its INTERNAL to the corporation, which is NONGEOGRAPHICAL. Good luck proving that INTERNAL means INTERNAL to the geographical United States. I’ve been searching for that kind of info for years. The party with the burden of proof is…

GROK: Taxability of “wages” not connected to a “trade or business” in the case of a “nonresident alien”

By ftsig-admin / March 27, 2025 / Comments Off on GROK: Taxability of “wages” not connected to a “trade or business” in the case of a “nonresident alien”

QUESTION 1: Would it be accurate to say that earnings under 26 U.S.C. 871(a)(1) relate to PROFIT from wages and not the gross receipt of wages, since everything listed there as FDAP relates to “fixed or determinable annual or periodical gains, profits, and income,”? ANSWER 1: Your question involves interpreting 26 U.S.C. § 871(a)(1), a…

DEBATE: How do Nonresident Aliens get their reasonable notice and duty to perform?

By ftsig-admin / March 27, 2025 / Comments Off on DEBATE: How do Nonresident Aliens get their reasonable notice and duty to perform?

EDITORIAL: The following debate between us and a member deals with how nonresident aliens get their “reasonable notice” of obligation and the origin and extend of that obligation. STATEMENT: Statutes precede regs—we know this. The starting point for the taxation of NRAs per statute is: In the regs it starts here: 26 C.F.R. §1.1-1(c) =…

DEBATE: Whether You are an “individual” as a nonresident alien not engaged in a “trade or business”

By ftsig-admin / March 25, 2025 / Comments Off on DEBATE: Whether You are an “individual” as a nonresident alien not engaged in a “trade or business”

EDITORIAL: For an extended debate about whether there is such a thing as a CIVIL “non-person” or “non-individual”, see: Policy Document: IRS Fraud and Deception About the Statutory Word “Person”, Form #08.023, Section 20https://sedm.org/Forms/08-PolicyDocs/IRSPerson.pdf STATEMENT: I cracked the code on “individual.” They are sneaky! The attempts to coverup confirm the schemes! I found where a…

Copilot: Who are “withholding agents”?

By ftsig-admin / March 15, 2025 / Comments Off on Copilot: Who are “withholding agents”?

EDITORIAL: 26 U.S.C. §1461 is the ONLY statute making anyone liable for ANYTHING in Internal Revenue Code Subtitle A. It limits itself to “nonresident aliens and foreign corporations”. Thus, 26 U.S.C. §1461 is deceptive because it doesn’t distinguish between “nonresident aliens” who are NATIONALS and those who are ALIENS. This is done to dissuade American…