HOW TO: How FTSIG Functions as a “privilege elimination process” and how government actors interfere with it

By ftsig-admin | April 25, 2026

1. INTRODUCTION

From a simplified perspective:

The entire FTSIG website can be described as a “privilege filtration process”.
Corruption in the administrative state and the courts is engineered to compel you to accept what is actually a voluntary privilege.
The constitution is still intact and you still own yourself, but only if you read and invoke the law to protect your status as absolutely private, foreign, and external to the government.

See:

“The Matrix” in a Nutshell, FTSIG
https://ftsig.org/the-matrix-in-a-nutshell/

2. THE PRIVILEGE

Private propertyPRI and Private rightsPRI:
1.1. The entirety of American jurisprudence is engineered to protect private property and private rights.
1.2. The first step in that protection is to RECOGNIZE those rightsPRI in EVERY enactment of Congress.
1.3. Beyond the point of recognition, the goal is to keep rightsPRI and rightsPUB separate and never joining or mixing them together. See:
Separation Between Public and Private Course, Form #12.025
https://sedm.org/LibertyU/SeparatingPublicPrivate.pdf
1.4. Privileges are the main method of voluntarily DESTROYING rightsPRI and converting them to rightsPUB.
The privilege is a “trade or business”, which is defined as “the functions of a public office” in 26 U.S.C. §7701(a)(26). See:
The “Trade or business” Scam, Form #05.001
https://sedm.org/Forms/05-MemLaw/TradeOrBusScam.pdf
Because the privilege is connected with “the functions of a public office”, every road you take in the code ultimately:
3.1. Leads INTO the “United States” federal corporation as its agent or officer, which the code calls “domestic” in 26 U.S.C. §7701(a)(4).
3.2. Makes your activities INTERNAL to the United States federal corporation.
3.3. Makes you into a usually involuntary surety for a voluntary statutory office most people aren’t even aware they are filling.
“Trade or business” is also a commercial privilege, because:
4.1. It is always connected with privileged deductions wherever it is offered, under 26 U.S.C. §162.
4.2. Deductions are a commercial privilege the government abuses to PROCURE the right to regulate you with as a form of compensation.
The I.R.C. Subtitle A income tax functions as an indirect excise tax on voluntary PRIVILEGES:
5.1. Excise taxes are taxes imposed on the happening of an “event” UNRELATED to the use or enjoyment of PRIVATE property recognized and protected by the Bill of Rights.
5.2. The “event” subject to tax therefore is the VOLUNTARY commercial or beneficial use of government property or privileges, which we call propertyPUB on this website.
5.3. Courts try to confuse this simple equation by never distinguishing the CHARACTER of the property used in connection with the alleged excise taxable event as either propertyPUB or propertyPRI. See:
Constitutional taxation provisions 1:8:1, 1:9:4, 1:2:3, FTSIG
https://ftsig.org/history/constitutional-provisions-123-194/
In practice, however:
6.1. People only pursue deductions DEDUCTIONS because they BELIEVE they have a tax obligation.
6.2. “trade or business” deductions are UNNECESSARY to pursue as a privilege if there is neither a real tax obligation nor a PRESUMPTION of a tax obligation.
6.3. The alleged DEDUCTIONS available through the “trade or business” mechanism are thus a deception to procure the power to tax without offering REAL consideration under equitable principles of unjust enrichment.
EVERYTHING of substance in the I.R.C. DEPENDS on a connection to “trade or business”.
7.1. Every entity listed in 26 C.F.R. §1.1-1: “U.S. persons” and “nonresident aliens” engaged in a trade or business under 26 U.S.C §871(b) and 26 U.S.C. §877(b). Conspicuously MISSING in connection with “nonresident aliens” in this regulation is a connection to 26 U.S.C §871(a) and 26 U.S.C. §877(a).
7.2. Every method of connecting an alien to LEGAL presence involves a “trade or business” using the “Tax Home” concept:
DEFINITIONS: Tax Home (domicile of a public office if you are a “taxpayer”), FTSIG
https://ftsig.org/definitions-tax-home/
7.3. The only thing NOT connected with “trade or business” privilege in the code is a “nonresident alien” not engaged in a “trade or business” with no U.S. source earnings. The property of this entity is described as a “foreign estate” in 26 U.S.C. §7701(a)(31).
To escape the privilege tax on a “trade or business” lawfully, you simply:
8.1. Avoid the unfounded PRESUMPTION that the tax applies to you.
8.2. Do not write your earnings on the tax return to begin with.
8.2. Not connecting you or your activities to the privilege by either taking deductions as a “U.S. person” or “effectively connecting.
There is no liability statute in the Internal Revenue Code connecting the ultimate “taxpayer” to an express liability other than:
9.1. Withholding agents on aliens in 26 U.S.C. §1461.
9.2. Those who made an “employer” election in 26 U.S.C. §3403.
Because there is no statutory liability:
10.1. The process of volunteering is simply to adopt a “statutory classification” using a government form.
10.2. The process of unvolunteering is to:
10.2.1. Rebut all attempts by others to connect you with the statutory classification involuntarily, such as through usually false information return reporting such as the W-2 and the 1099.
10.2.2. Demand all money back that was withheld by filing as a nonresident alien U.S. national with constitutional protections.
Everything in the I.R.C. is just a “long-winded hunt” for the privilege that is never actually CALLED a privilege. You’re not allowed to learn what the game is really about. You’re the pawn. Remember?

Welcome to “The Matrix”, Neo!

Process to “Invisibly” join the Matrix: Electing a CIVIL STATUTORY STATUS, FTSIG
https://ftsig.org/how-you-volunteer/process-to-invisibly-join-the-matrix-electing-a-civil-statutory-status/

3. THE PRIVILEGE FILTRATION PROCESS

The following section summarizes the FTSIG.ORG “privilege filtration and avoidance process”:

3.1. Avoid connecting YOURSELF to a statusPUB. That means:

3.1.1. Choosing the nonresident alien position instead of the “U.S. person” position.
3.1.2. Identifying yourself as a NONPRIVILEGED U.S. national and not a privileged ALIEN.
3.1.3. Vigorously defending your right to remain a personPRI and avoid a privileges public statusPUB.
3.1.4. Understanding the difference between a POLITICAL status (citizen* and statusPRI) and a CIVIL status (citizen**+D and statusPUB).

3.2. Avoid connecting your PROPERTY to statusPUB, meaning “effectively connecting” as a nonresident alien. See:

The Truth About Effectively Connecting, Form #05.056
https://sedm.org/Forms/05-MemLaw/EffectivelyConnected.pdf

3.3. Emphasize that you are within a constitutional state standing on land protected by the constitution and consenting or electing to NOTHING. The reason for this is explained in the following insightful AI questions:

HOW TO: Distinguishing How Constitutional Restrictions are Circumvented Using the Public Rights Doctrine, FTSIG
https://ftsig.org/how-to-distinguishing-how-constitutional-restrictions-are-circumvented-using-the-public-rights-doctrine/

3.4. When litigating your position, you must invoke the common law and equity rather than statute law. This is because:

3.4.1. All civil statutory law other than that enacted under the Public Interest Doctrine is a privilege that transitions you from personPRI to personPUB. See:
Why Statutory Civil Law is Law for Government and not Private Persons, Form #05.037
https://sedm.org/Forms/05-MemLaw/StatLawGovt.pdf
3.4.2. You must always avoid privileges.

3.5. Every attempt to recover funds unlawfully withheld must be done by filing a 1040-NR return and:

3.5.1. Asking for all money back.
3.5.2. Emphasizing that the perjury statement does not and cannot validate your status because that would be an inadmissible legal conclusion.
3.5.3. Emphasizing that you may not be subjected to penalties because you never sought the “trade or business” or “effectively connected” privileges so as to make you the “person” subject to said penalties in 26 U.S.C. 6671(b).
3.5.4. Dictating the choice of law in the attachment to the return to ensure common law and equity only and not the Title 26, Subtitle A “trade or business” privilege.

More at:

HOW TO: The PATH Out of “The Matrix” When Filing Return
https://ftsig.org/how-to-the-path-out-of-the-matrix/
The Simplest Way Out of the Matrix, FTSIG
https://ftsig.org/the-simplest-way-out-of-the-matrix/

4. HOW COURTS INTERFERE WITH LAWFULLY AVOIDING THE PRIVILEGE

Courts use several layers of tactics to interfere with either understanding or refusing the privilege. This section lists those techniques:

The most dangerous thing you can know about the income tax is the following:
1.1. “Trade or business” makes you a statutory officer of the government corporation INTERNAL to the government.
1.2. Being INSIDE the government means being “domestic”.
1.3. Either YOU (U.S. person) or your PROPERTY (trade or business/effectively connected) can be “domestic”.
1.4. “Domestic” is synonymous with “the Matrix”.
1.5. The only way you or your property can be “assimilated into” the Matrix to become “domestic” is for you to donate it. Otherwise, the only thing the government can lawfully manage is PUBLIC property that is part of the constitution as a trust indenture and is called the “trust corpus”.
1.6. Even WHEN you are inside the corporation/matrix, the status or office you hold is nothing but a surety for public debt with no real authority over anything BUT the PRIVATE property (propertyPRI) you donated before its actually transferred to the government through the “return” reconciliation process. Government assumes and will not recognize any attempt to treat the position you occupy as “property” because they don’t want to accept liability for the involuntary imposition of the public status (identity theft).
1.7. The “taxpayer” office is therefore a “liability routing mechanism” to route liability for public debt AWAY from the government and ONTO you. AI has confirmed this.
1.8. If you knew the above, you could make an informed decision to “unvolunteer”, so the government engages in crazymaking and gaslighting but no substantive facts that rebut any of the above. Mafias only protect themselves and never you. The income tax is just “protection money” that turns “justice” (the right to be LEFT ALONE) into a privilege. You have to PAY to be left alone, which means you aren’t getting any real consideration because the government doesn’t have to do anything to leave you alone. it costs them nothing to simply leave you alone. See:
What is “Justice”?, Form #05.050
https://sedm.org/Forms/05-MemLaw/WhatIsJustice.pdf
The definition of “trade or business” in 26 U.S.C. §7701(a)(26) doesn’t describe how absolutely owned private property is lawfully connected to a “trade or business” and thus is converted from propertyPRI to propertyPUB. In that sense, the “code”:
2.1. Fails the constitutional requirement for “reasonable notice” of all the people and things that are “included” in the definition.
2.2. Violates due process of law.
Courts have no authority to unilaterally define “trade or business” either. Once a statute has a definition, they are bound to use that definition INSTEAD of its ordinary meaning per the rules of statutory construction.
Courts also have no authority to:
4.1. Invent their own definition.
4.2. Apply the ordinary meaning when there is a statutory definition.
4.3. Allow litigants before them to substitute THEIR OWN stipulated definitions.
Doing so would violate the separation of powers by causing judges to in effect “make law” by writing their own definitions.
Most of the corruption in the courts intended to connect you to the “trade or business” excise taxable privilege therefore stems from:
5.1. Conflating statutory terms (public) with dictionary terms (private) relating to human beings or their property.
5.2. Using stipulations and preexisting elections to expand statutory terms through consent of the parties.
5.3. Unilaterally expanding terms to include PRIVATE activity in violation of the rules of statutory construction and of the separation of powers.
5.4. Presuming a PUBLIC context for ordinary words by default.
5.5. Using the word “includes” and “including” in a statutory definition to add anything they want to the definition in violation of the rules of
Litigants who are aware of these things are ILLEGALLY labelled and penalized as “frivolous” without actually describing what they did wrong. This violates the constitutional requirement for “reasonable notice” and thus violates due process.
Requirement for Reasonable Notice, Form #05.022
https://sedm.org/Forms/05-MemLaw/ReasonableNotice.pdf
There is a WIDE disparity between what the statutes allow and authorize and what judicial doctrine says about what they allow. This disparity is a product of the fact that:
7.1. The only thing the public is allowed to learn about the case is what judges SAY in their final ruling, which always omits key things like how consent was given.
7.2. The case dockets (motions and filings) are not part of the ruling or public record.
7.3. Evidence gathered in discovery is not part of the docket or the ruling.
7.4. The massive disconnect between what judges DO and what they are willing to SAY about what they do can only be realized by comparing the FINAL RULING with the content of the DOCKET.
7.5. Artificial Intelligence is NOT trained on anything BUT the final ruling and what the judge is willing to SAY about what he did in the case.
Those wishing to learn what really happened in a case must understand all these things:
8.1. They must listen to and read everything in the docket and the evidence and trust no one.
8.2. When interacting with AI, they must INSIST that AI distinguish and compare:
8.2.1. What the statutes permit and allow.
8.2.3. What judges (doctrine) says about what they allow.
If you don’t do the above two things, you will ALWAYS get the doctrinal position and never be aware of judicial corruption.
8.2. They must ask questions to discover third rail issues the judge is censoring from his final ruling. See:
Third Rail Government Issues, form #08.032
https://sedm.org/Forms/08-PolicyDocs/ThirdRailIssues.pdf
You must understand the origin of the authority to impose an income tax is the Public Rights Doctrine.
9.1. It enforces privileges.
9.2. It presupposes that you are WITHIN the government and “domestic”.
9.3. It hides the role of consent involved in acquiring a statutory capacity.
9.4. It avoids PROPERTY terms and laws so that it can hide the fact that it actually is being abused to effect THEFT in the case of those who are not aliens.
9.5. It invents new names for classical legal terms to avoid allowing you to NOT consent.
More on the above at:
HOW TO: Distinguishing How Constitutional Restrictions are Circumvented Using the Public Rights Doctrine, FTSIG
https://ftsig.org/how-to-distinguishing-how-constitutional-restrictions-are-circumvented-using-the-public-rights-doctrine/

5. HOW THE ADMINISTRATIVE STATE INTERFERES WITH LAWFULLY AVOIDING THE PRIVILEGE

People in the IRS and state revenue agencies are what courts call “ministerial officers”.
A ministerial officer operates under strict legal limitations:
2.1. They are not fact witnesses and cannot CREATE facts.
2.2. They seldom if ever sign perjury statements.
2.3. They cannot make their own “legal conclusions” or “legal determinations” or practice law on their own.
2.4. If you complete and sign a tax form that contains a legal conclusion or even a status, then a ministerial officer must dismiss and not act upon a legal conclusion on your part, even IF it is verified by a perjury statement
To understand how to challenge a ministerial officer, you must study the Federal and State rules of evidence.
3.1. Facts are CREATED by perjury statements and personal knowledge.
3.2. Facts do not include hearsay of others or presumptions on your part.
3.3. Facts include independently verifiable things like your address, phone number, name, birthdate, email address, etc.
3.4. Facts DO NOT include “legal conclusions” or “legal determinations”.
3.5. Legal conclusions by those not practicing law are inadmissible as evidence.
3.6. A statutory status, capacity, or classification is NOT a fact, but a legal conclusion or determination that is NOT evidence. See Federal Rule of Evidence 610.
IRS forms and publications are not trustworthy according to the IRS. See:
IRS Forms/Pubs/Statements warning, FTSIG
https://ftsig.org/special-language/irs-pubs-warning/
The fact that IRS publications and statements are NOT EVIDENCE or trustworthy means that:
5.1. Neither the form nor any of the words on the form from the IRS are facts or admissible as evidence.
5.2. The connection between untrustworthy words on the form and things you ADD to the form is inadmissible as evidence.
Because the untrustworthy words the IRS puts on the form and the statuses on the form are inadmissible as evidence and cannot be validated by your own perjury statement:
6.1. The choice of form is irrelevant insofar as it affects your statutory classification or capacity.
6.2. The perjury statement you sign on the form does not validate the words the IRS put on the form, but only what you ADDED to the form.
The only way a ministerial officer can create an enforceable statutory capacity or status that is admissible as evidnece under the rules of evidence without involving an inadmissible legal conclusion is to offer you a CHOICE. That means:
7.1. They have to CALL it a choice of election.
7.2. They have to include check boxes on the form identified as CHOICES.
7.3. They cannot use your CHOICE of form to make the election invisible, because the status printed on the form isn’t evidence.
7.4. If they don’t OFFER you a choice, they are violating the reasonable notice provisions of the constitution.
In fact, IRS cannot and does not EVER satisfy all the above legal requirements imposed upon them as “ministerial officers”.
8.1. If they vouched for the accuracy of the form to make it factual, they could be subjected to massive lawsuits for fraud.
8.2. They can’t offer you and notice you of a choice, because if they did, you could technically completely “opt out”.
8.3. They must maintain the deception and illusion that the tax is INVOLUNTARY, even though it in fact is voluntary for most people. Courts do the same thing with the games they play with the “Public Rights Doctrine” using word games.
Because it is IMPOSSIBLE for the IRS and state revenue agencies to lawfully operate within the bounds of their delegated authority and their status is ministerial officers, everything they do is:
9.1. Executed in their PRIVATE capacity.
9.2. Ultra vires.
9.3. A tort.

You can learn more about the above at:

Copilot: Duties and Authority of “Ministerial Officers” at the IRS and State Revenue Agencies, FTSIG
https://ftsig.org/copilot-duties-and-authority-of-ministerial-officers-at-the-irs-and-state-revenue-agencies/

6. FURTHER READING

Timeline for Corruption of Tax System by Abandoning PersonPRI and Replacing with PersonPUB, FTSIG
https://ftsig.org/timeline-for-corruption-of-tax-system-by-abandoning-personpri-and-replacing-with-personpub/
Copilot: Origin of CIVIL Privileges v. Obligations, FTSIG
https://ftsig.org/copilot-origin-of-civil-privileges-v-obligations/
Copilot: Avoiding privileges alltogether, FTSIG
https://ftsig.org/copilot-avoiding-privileges-alltogether/
Copilot: Are privileges the mechanism to establish a mafia protection racket and civil religion?, FTSIG
https://ftsig.org/copilot-privileges-the-mechanism-to-establish-a-mafia-protection-racket/
PROOF OF FACTS: That I.R.C. Subtitles A and C are NOT a CONSTITUTIONAL income tax but a CIVIL PRIVILEGE tax, FTSIG
https://ftsig.org/proof-of-facts-that-i-r-c-subtitles-a-and-c-are-not-a-constitutional-income-tax-but-a-civil-privilege-tax/
FAQ: What are the differences between a “franchise” and a “privilege”?, FTSIG
https://ftsig.org/faq-what-are-the-differences-between-a-franchise-and-a-privilege/
The Income Tax Is and Always Has Been on Nothing But Voluntary Privileges, FTSIG
https://ftsig.org/the-income-tax-is-and-always-has-been-on-nothing-but-voluntary-privileges/

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