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Instructions on how to do various things.

HOW TO: Strategy for avoiding frivolous return penalties under 6702 and getting the IRS to accept and process your return

By ftsig-admin / August 14, 2026 / Comments Off on HOW TO: Strategy for avoiding frivolous return penalties under 6702 and getting the IRS to accept and process your return

INTRODUCTION: More at: QUESTION 1: How would you suggest improving the following to make it more likely to be acceptable? 6. CHOICE OF LAW AND TERMS OF COMMERCIAL USE OF  MY PROPERTY AND IDENTIFYING INFORMATION: This is a private capacity petition for refund under Article III of the Constitution instead of Article I/Public Rights Doctrine. Exclusions claimed…

HOW TO: Forcing Administrative State to expose presumption of PUBLIC capacityPUB and consideration provided to operate in that capacity

By ftsig-admin / August 10, 2026 / Comments Off on HOW TO: Forcing Administrative State to expose presumption of PUBLIC capacityPUB and consideration provided to operate in that capacity

1. INTRODUCTION: These tactics are useful in administrative correspondence to force the agency into the legal equivalent of a “perpetual identity hearing” where they must expose all their secret presumptions and equivocation. In the process, they literally commit enforcement suicide by being compelled to expose WITH EVIDENCE that they have no enforcement authority at all,…

HOW TO: Proving that Government is Operating in a Proprietary Mode and Has the Burden of Proving BOTH Consent AND PRIVATE propertyPRI Constitutional Consideration

By ftsig-admin / July 27, 2026 / Comments Off on HOW TO: Proving that Government is Operating in a Proprietary Mode and Has the Burden of Proving BOTH Consent AND PRIVATE propertyPRI Constitutional Consideration

INTRODUCTION: This is probably the most important article on the site because it provides tools for exposing and prosecuting “The Matrix”, which we describe in the article below: “THE MATRIX” in a Nutshell, FTSIGhttps://ftsig.org/the-matrix-in-a-nutshell/ All the evils of the present government ORIGINATE in implementing proprietary power not expressly authorized by the constitution. Proprietary power is…

HOW TO: Fact Checking our Website

By ftsig-admin / July 25, 2026 / Comments Off on HOW TO: Fact Checking our Website

1. Introduction Our website describes foreign taxation from three perspectives simultaneously: Of the above three, the only one susceptible to fact checking is item 1. Everything else is what AI calls “normative”, political, philosophical, and theological. Even for item 1 above, not everything technically is “factual”. 2. Comparison of the three areas The three main…

HOW TO: How to prevent Identity Theft on a Social Security or Medicare Application

By ftsig-admin / July 7, 2026 / Comments Off on HOW TO: How to prevent Identity Theft on a Social Security or Medicare Application

INTRODUCTION: Use this application attachment to Medicare to prevent public capacityPUB inversion. APPLICATION FOR PART A HOSPITAL INSURANCE, Form CMS-18-F-5 MANDATORY ATTACHMENT Name: ___________________ Date: ________________________________

HOW TO: Understanding Sovereign Power v. Proprietary Power

By ftsig-admin / May 29, 2026 / Comments Off on HOW TO: Understanding Sovereign Power v. Proprietary Power

A metaphor‑first onboarding into the distinction between Sovereign Power and Proprietary Power, grounded in: This page teaches readers how to distinguish sovereign authority from proprietary authority, how each operates, and how to avoid the category errors that collapse the two. Key concepts appear as Guided Links. 1. Root Metaphor: The Two Hands of Government Imagine…

HOW TO: Understanding the meaning of the term “United States”

By ftsig-admin / May 29, 2026 / Comments Off on HOW TO: Understanding the meaning of the term “United States”

A metaphor‑first onboarding into the multiple legal meanings of “United States,” grounded: This page teaches readers how to distinguish United Statesᴳ (geography) from United Statesᴶ (jurisdiction / corporate sovereign) using metaphors, ontologies, and dependency structures. Key concepts appear as Guided Links. 1. Root Metaphor: The Two Maps in the Same Folder Imagine opening a folder…

HOW TO: Understanding Jurisdiction

By ftsig-admin / May 29, 2026 / Comments Off on HOW TO: Understanding Jurisdiction

This page onboards readers into the subject of Jurisdiction using a metaphor‑first approach, following the Writing Conventions on this Website (especially Section 14). It is designed to reduce epistemic threat, introduce counter‑categorical concepts gently, and give readers a clear, structured architecture for understanding how jurisdiction actually attaches. 1. Root Metaphor: The Stage and the Spotlight…

HOW TO: Techniques for discerning the context for statutory “United States” as either United StatesG (Geographical) or United StatesJ (Legal)

By ftsig-admin / May 5, 2026 / Comments Off on HOW TO: Techniques for discerning the context for statutory “United States” as either United StatesG (Geographical) or United StatesJ (Legal)

Copilot INTRODUCTION: This article is provided to show you a procedure you can use to determine exactly which “United States” applies in any given context. You can use this article with AI by: 1. Giving a link to the context you want to analyze. 2. Giving AI the link for this page 3. Asking Ai…

HOW TO: How to notify Social Security that You as a Nonresident Alien U.S. national are INELIGIBLE for SSN and demand destruction of all NUMIDENT Records

By ftsig-admin / April 30, 2026 / Comments Off on HOW TO: How to notify Social Security that You as a Nonresident Alien U.S. national are INELIGIBLE for SSN and demand destruction of all NUMIDENT Records

TABLE OF CONTENTS: 1. Introduction Thesis: Form SS‑5 is a defective instrument because its Privacy Act authority applies only to “individuals” (citizens and resident aliens), making any collection of data from a nonresident alien U.S. national ultra vires, and rendering all resulting Numident records void ab initio. This article describes: Numident records are shared by…