Definitions

Definitions of key terms used in a statutory context.

“trade or business”

By ftsig-admin / November 24, 2024 / Comments Off on “trade or business”

WARNINGS!: 26 U.S.C. §7701(a)(26) “The term ‘trade or business’ includes the performance of the functions of a public office.” The “trade or business” scam-heart of the IRS fraud HTML Version-Family Guardian PDF Version-SEDM McCulloch v. Maryland, 17 U.S. 316 @ 430 (1819) “All subjects over which the sovereign power of a State extends are objects…

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“source within the United States”

By ftsig-admin / October 18, 2024 / Comments Off on “source within the United States”

26 U.S. Code § 861 – Income from sources within the United States EDITORIAL: Note that the hyperlinks to terms on Cornell such as “United States” are NOT part of the U.S. code and are not OFFICIAL links to actual definitions. They are merely guesses. Thus, “United States” DOESN”T necessarily mean the GEOGRAPHICAL “United States”…

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“Withholding Agent”

By ftsig-admin / October 18, 2024 / Comments Off on “Withholding Agent”

26 U.S.C. §7701(a)(16) TITLE 26 > Subtitle F > CHAPTER 79 > Sec. 7701.Sec. 7701. – Definitions (a)(16) Withholding agent The term ”withholding agent” means any person required to deduct and withhold any tax under the provisions of section 1441, 1442, 1443, or 1461. [See Title 26, Subtitle A, Chapter 3, Subchapter A: Nonresident Aliens and Foreign Corporations] IRS Form 2678  IRS Form 2678 is the only way…

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“Wages”

By ftsig-admin / September 9, 2024 /

The Wealth of Nations, Adam Smith, p. 675, 1776; SOURCE: https://www.ibiblio.org/ml/libri/s/SmithA_WealthNations_p.pdf EDITORIAL: Smith deplored capitations as inequitable, inflationary, counterproductive, and destructive of liberty. Smith 5 times calls a tax on wages a direct tax in three pages of Book V This would definitely have been in the mind of the framers when they wrote the…

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Foreign Government

By ftsig-admin / September 4, 2024 / Comments Off on Foreign Government

EDITORIAL: This section is useful in determining when and how you became an instrumentality of any government, not just foreign governments. Throughout this site, we take the position that everyone who owes a civil obligation to any government is an AGENT and representative of that government and a “straw man”. “An office is a public…

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“in the United States”

By ftsig-admin / August 28, 2024 /

EDITORIAL: The term “in the United States” as applied to work on national government public works is defined in the following case. The case establishes that: You will note that the indicted parties in this case technically were not working on land within the exclusive jurisdiction of the state. In that sense, “extraterritorial jurisdiction” was…

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Franchise

By ftsig-admin / August 14, 2024 / Comments Off on Franchise

“Franchise: A special privilege conferred by government on individual or corporation, and which does not belong to citizens of country generally of common right.” [Artesian Water Co. v. State Dept. of Highways and Transp., Del.Super., 330 A 2d 432, 439.] “As was said in Wisconsin v. J. C. Penney Co., 311 U.S. 435, 444 (1940),…

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Weaponization of Government

By ftsig-admin / August 13, 2024 /

The process by which a classically governmental function is abused as a method to destroy or war against private rights, private property, common law remedies, constitutional remedies, or even personal choice and autonomy. The PERPETRATOR we call the RECRUITER and the VICTIM we call the PEON, VASSAL, and SLAVE. We describe the HAZARDS of participating…

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Separation of Powers

By ftsig-admin / August 9, 2024 / Comments Off on Separation of Powers

“This constitutionally mandated division of authority was adopted by the framers to ensure protection of our fundamental liberties”. Gregory V. Ashcroft, 501 US 452, 458 (1991) “just as the separation and independence of the coordinate branches of the federal government serves to prevent the accumulation of excessive power in any one branch, a healthy balance…

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Private

By ftsig-admin / August 9, 2024 / Comments Off on Private

“Neither branch of the legislative department , still less any merely administrative body, established by congress, possesses, or can be invested with, a general power of making inquiry into the private affairs of the citizen. Kilbourn v. Thompson, 103 U.S. 168, 190. We said in Boyd v. U.S., 116 U. S. 616, 630, 6 Sup.…

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