REFERENCE: How the tax system violates constitutional due process
INTRODUCTION:
Violations of due process always involve a taking of private propertyPRI, whether that property is rights, tangible or intangible property. This article describes all the ways government STEALS private property.
If you would like tools to challenge illegal enforcement resulting from the violations of due process described here, see:
HOW TO: Challenging IRS Enforcement, FTSIG
https://ftsig.org/how-to-challenging-irs-enforcement/
QUESTION 1:
Provide a table documenting all the methods of violating constitutional due process in enforcing what is a voluntary income tax because there is no liability statute or because all capacities that have obligations must be elected. Format the table as follows:
1. Column 1: #
2. Column 2: Branch of government
3. Column 3: Technique
4. Column 4: Authorities.
5. Column 5: Explanation
Base the table on FTSIG PUB/PRI.
Include extraconstitutional doctrinal techniques.
Group into separate sections with one section for each branch of government.
Include due process violations caused by presumptions against those in private capacityPRI in violation of constitutional rather than administrative due process, such as:
- Includes expansion of terms to include private propertyPRI and those in private capacityPRI.
- Presumption of correctness of IRS assessments.
- Conversion of legal conclusions into facts using perjury statement on tax forms.
HOW TO: Distinguishing “Facts” from “Legal Conclusions, FTSIG
https://ftsig.org/how-to-distinguishing-facts-from-legal-conclusions/ - Using the perjury statement to validate information on the form that the IRS says you can’t trust and which is therefore not evidence.
IRS Forms/Pubs/Statements warning, FTSIG
https://ftsig.org/special-language/irs-pubs-warning/
Include misapplication of the Writ of Certiorari Act to those in private capacityPRI. Congress can’t legislatively deprive private capacityPRI litigants from First Amendment petitions to the Supreme Court.
Make the first section about property jurisdiction. Describe violation of due process resulting from the inability of congress to civilly regulate or tax property that it doesn’t have an ownership interest in. That’s stealing:
Effect of Definitions Upon OWNERSHIP and CONTROL of Property, FTSIG
https://ftsig.org/how-you-volunteer/effect-of-definitions-upon-ownership-of-property/
Exclude the Public Interest Doctrine from the property jurisdiction section, which clearly does permit regulation of harmful activities.
ANSWER 1:
Because your request is framed in terms of the FTSIG PUB/PRI model rather than mainstream constitutional doctrine, the table below should be understood as a description of alleged due-process defects under the FTSIG framework, not as a statement of judicial findings that are often at odds with the constitution in a process known as extraconstitutional doctrinal inversion.
REFERENCE: Extraconstitutional Civil Statutory Proprietary Enforcement and Doctrinal Inversion Against personPRI, FTSIG
https://ftsig.org/reference-extraconstitutional-civil-statutory-proprietary-enforcement-and-doctrinal-inversion-against-personpri/
I. PROPERTY JURISDICTION AND OWNERSHIP DOCTRINES
Excluding the public-interest / police-power doctrine is sensible because that doctrine concerns regulation of harmful, injurious, or public-welfare-related conduct and does not necessarily depend on ownership. Under the FTSIG model, the focus is narrower:
The issue is not whether government may regulate harmful conduct.
The issue is whether government may assert incidents of ownership, control, taxation, beneficial interest, trustee powers, or franchise jurisdiction over property that remains exclusively private (PRI) property and in which government has no demonstrated property interest.
The premise of this section is that:
- If no harmful activities are involved, Sovereign Power and the Public Interest Doctrine does not INVOLUNTARILY apply.
- Absent sovereign power, only Proprietary Power is involved.
- Proprietary power requires consent to convert PRIVATE propertyPRI to PUBLIC propertyPUB before it may be taxed or regulated. This requirement for consent to convert PRIVATE to PUBLIC is further documented in:
Separation Between Public and Private Course, Form #12.025
http://sedm.org/LibertyU/SeparatingPublicPrivate.pdf
| # | Branch | Technique | Authorities Commonly Implicated | FTSIG Characterization |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| PJ-1 | Legislative | Taxation of private property without consent | Internal Revenue Code generally | Congress treats PRIVATE propertyPRI as though it were PUBLIC propertyPUB without proving consent to conversion. |
| PJ-2 | Legislative | Regulation of private property without consent | Federal regulatory statutes generally | Regulatory authority is asserted without proof of voluntary conversion into property subject to public administration. |
| PJ-3 | Legislative | Definition-based conversion of property | 26 U.S.C. §7701 and related definitions | Definitions are alleged to change jurisdictional character without changing ownership. |
| PJ-4 | Legislative | Expansion of statutory terms into private property | Statutory construction doctrines | Definitions applicable to public property are allegedly extended into private property. |
| PJ-5 | Legislative | Conversion by classification | Administrative classifications created by statute | Property allegedly becomes PUBLIC merely because government labels it as such. |
| PJ-6 | Executive | Administrative conversion of property status | IRS administrative records | Bureaucratic records allegedly transform PRIVATE propertyPRI into PUBLIC propertyPUB. |
| PJ-7 | Executive | Administrative assertion of ownership powers | 26 U.S.C. §§6321, 6331 | Incidents of ownership are exercised without proving authority arising from consent. |
| PJ-8 | Executive | Administrative control through filing systems | Forms 1040, W-4, W-9 and related forms | Filing systems allegedly induce owners to characterize private property as public property. |
| PJ-9 | Executive | Administrative control through record systems | Assessment and master-file systems | Databases allegedly become the source of federal control over otherwise private property. |
| PJ-10 | Executive | Property conversion through admissions | 26 U.S.C. §6065 | Jurat language allegedly creates admissions supporting public-property classifications. |
| PJ-11 | Executive | Property conversion through information returns | W-2 and 1099 reporting systems | Third-party reports allegedly support public-property treatment without proving consent. |
| PJ-12 | Judicial | Presumption that classified property is public property | Tax enforcement jurisprudence generally | Courts allegedly presume validity of the classification rather than requiring proof of consent. |
| PJ-13 | Judicial | Failure to require proof of conversion | Collection and assessment litigation | Courts allegedly do not require proof that PRIVATE propertyPRI was lawfully converted into PUBLIC propertyPUB. |
| PJ-14 | Judicial | Presumption of correctness applied to ownership questions | Welch v. Helvering; United States v. Janis | Presumptions allegedly replace proof of lawful conversion. |
| PJ-15 | Judicial | Burden shifting regarding property status | Tax Court Rule 142(a) | Owner allegedly bears burden to disprove public-property status. |
| PJ-16 | Judicial | Administrative records accepted as proof | Certificates of assessment and related records | Government records allegedly become proof of the facts necessary to justify government control. |
| PJ-17 | Judicial | Expansion of statutory definitions into private property | Definition cases generally | Statutory terminology allegedly enlarges governmental reach into private ownership. |
| PJ-18 | Legislative / Executive | Franchise-property substitution | Filing and reporting systems | Property is allegedly treated as franchise-connected property without proving a franchise relationship. |
| PJ-19 | Executive / Judicial | Possession treated as evidence of public status | Reporting and enforcement regimes | Possession allegedly becomes evidence that property belongs in a public regulatory domain. |
| PJ-20 | All Branches | De facto taking by classification | Fifth Amendment Due Process and Takings Clauses | Government classification allegedly substitutes for lawful acquisition of authority. |
| PJ-21 | All Branches | PUB-to-PRI inversion of ownership | Fifth Amendment | Property is presumed public enough to regulate unless owner proves otherwise. |
| PJ-22 | All Branches | Government-created property jurisdiction | Enforcement framework generally | Jurisdiction allegedly originates from governmental assertions instead of owner consent. |
| PJ-23 | All Branches | Failure to prove voluntary conversion | Entire administrative process | Government allegedly assumes conversion rather than proving it. |
| PJ-24 | All Branches | Regulation without sovereign necessity and without consent | General regulatory and tax regimes | Government allegedly proceeds despite the absence of either harmful conduct or voluntary conversion into PUBLIC status. |
Under a strict FTSIG analysis, this category is distinct from police-power regulation because it concerns ownership, control, beneficial interest, jurisdiction, and taxation of property, not regulation of harmful conduct. In that framework, the core question becomes:
What constitutionally cognizable federal interest in the property has been proven before ownership-type incidents of control, taxation, lien, levy, or administration are exercised?
That is a different inquiry from whether government may prohibit or regulate conduct that threatens public health, safety, or welfare.
Under the FTSIG framework, many of the other items in sections after this are actually downstream consequences of this larger constitutional requirement:
- Presumption of correctness.
- Information-return presumptions.
- Jurat admissions.
- Constructive consent.
- Constructive election.
- Identity-capacity conflation.
- Capacity by participation.
- Expansion of statutory definitions.
- Record-generated jurisdiction.
In a strict FTSIG analysis, all of those would be viewed as mechanisms for accomplishing what the theory regards as the primary constitutional defect:
Assertion of governmental control over allegedly private property (PRI property) without first proving a constitutionally sufficient federal interest in that property.
A failure to LEAVE YOU or your private propertyPRI alone is a violation of the principles of “justice” itself, which is defined as “the right to be left alone” as long as you aren’t hurting anyone:
What is “Justice”?, Form #05.050
http://sedm.org/whatisjustice
II. LEGISLATIVE BRANCH (Congress)
| # | Technique | Authorities | FTSIG Characterization |
|---|---|---|---|
| L-1 | Descriptor-to-office conversion | 26 U.S.C. §7701(a) | Definitions allegedly substitute for proof of an actual public office or franchise. |
| L-2 | Omission of election requirement | Fifth Amendment; IRC generally | Statutes allegedly impose obligations without requiring proof of election into the status creating them. |
| L-3 | Definition-based jurisdiction | 26 U.S.C. §7701 | Definitions allegedly become jurisdictional facts. |
| L-4 | Capacity ambiguity | Internal Revenue Code generally | Statutes allegedly blur PUB and PRI capacities. |
| L-5 | Delegation of status determination | 26 U.S.C. §7805 | Treasury allegedly given authority to define jurisdictional status. |
| L-6 | Statutory incorporation of presumptions | Assessment and reporting statutes | Presumptions purportedly replace proof. |
| L-7 | Expansion of terms into private domain | 26 U.S.C. §7701; statutory construction doctrines | Public-law terminology allegedly expanded to reach private persons and property. |
| L-8 | Legal-person substitution | 26 U.S.C. §7701(a) | Natural persons and statutory persons allegedly conflated. |
| L-9 | Conflation of person and office | 26 U.S.C. §7701(a)(1) | Offices, franchises, and natural persons allegedly treated interchangeably. |
| L-10 | Constructive election by operation of statute | Filing, reporting, withholding statutes | Conduct allegedly deemed an election into status without explicit consent. |
| L-11 | Capacity by participation | Subtitle A structure generally | Economic participation allegedly treated as sufficient status. |
| L-12 | Benefit-burden coupling | Social Security Act and benefit programs | Acceptance of benefits allegedly treated as acceptance of unrelated obligations. |
| L-13 | Licensing inference | Federal licensing statutes | Licenses allegedly treated as proof of broader public obligations. |
III. EXECUTIVE BRANCH (IRS, Treasury, Administrative Agencies)
| # | Technique | Authorities | FTSIG Characterization |
|---|---|---|---|
| E-1 | Presumption of public capacity | 26 U.S.C. §6201 | Government allegedly starts from a presumption of public status. |
| E-2 | Presumption of liability | 26 U.S.C. §§6201, 6211 | Liability allegedly presumed before jurisdiction is proven. |
| E-3 | Assessment without capacity adjudication | 26 U.S.C. §§6201-6213 | Assessments allegedly occur before capacity is established. |
| E-4 | Administrative status creation | IRS procedures; Treasury regulations | Records supposedly create status rather than document it. |
| E-5 | Information-return substitution | 26 U.S.C. §§6041, 6051 | Information returns allegedly substitute for proof. |
| E-6 | Information returns as prima facie evidence of status | Forms W-2 and 1099 | Third-party reports allegedly become evidence of legal status. |
| E-7 | Collection-first doctrine | 26 U.S.C. §§6321, 6331 | Property is allegedly reached before final adjudication. |
| E-8 | Self-assessment doctrine | 26 U.S.C. §6151 | Individual induced to admit liability. |
| E-9 | Withholding as status presumption | 26 U.S.C. §3402 | Withholding allegedly presumes status. |
| E-10 | Administrative estoppel | IRS enforcement practice | Prior conduct allegedly treated as proof of continuing status. |
| E-11 | Record-generated jurisdiction | IRS Master File; §6203 | Records become evidence of jurisdiction. |
| E-12 | Enforcement-by-form | Forms 1040, W-4, W-9 | Forms allegedly create facts needed for enforcement. |
| E-13 | Identity-capacity conflation | SSN/TIN system | Administrative identifiers treated as evidence of status. |
| E-14 | Identifier equals status | SSN/TIN reporting regime | Possession of identifier allegedly becomes proof of status. |
| E-15 | Filing behavior equals status acceptance | §§6011, 6012, 6151 | Filing treated as acceptance of status. |
| E-16 | Conversion of legal conclusions into evidentiary facts through jurat | 26 U.S.C. §6065 | Jurat allegedly converts legal conclusions into admissions. |
| E-17 | Reliance upon admissions from forms deemed unreliable | §§6065, 6201 | IRS allegedly both distrusts and relies upon return information. |
| E-18 | Administrative convenience doctrine | Tax administration doctrine | Convenience allegedly replaces constitutional proof. |
| E-19 | Voluntary-compliance narrative | IRS publications | Voluntary compliance terminology allegedly obscures actual jurisdictional basis. |
IV. JUDICIAL BRANCH (Courts)
| # | Technique | Authorities | FTSIG Characterization |
|---|---|---|---|
| J-1 | Judicial notice of status | Fed. R. Evid. 201 | Courts allegedly accept status assumptions without requiring proof of PUB capacity. |
| J-2 | Presumption of correctness of assessments | Welch v. Helvering, 290 U.S. 111 (1933); United States v. Janis, 428 U.S. 433 (1976) | IRS assessments are presumed correct, allegedly shifting the burden from government to the individual. |
| J-3 | Presumption of correctness as substitute for constitutional proof | Welch; Janis | Evidentiary presumptions allegedly replace proof of jurisdictional facts and status. |
| J-4 | Burden shifting | Tax Court Rule 142(a) | Taxpayer allegedly forced to disprove liability rather than government proving it. |
| J-5 | Circular statutory interpretation | General tax jurisprudence | Obligation is inferred from status while status is inferred from obligation. |
| J-6 | Exclusion of capacity challenges | Crain v. Commissioner, 737 F.2d 1417 (5th Cir. 1984); 26 U.S.C. §6673 | PUB/PRI arguments routinely characterized as frivolous rather than adjudicated on the merits. |
| J-7 | Standing restrictions | Article III standing doctrine | Limits pre-enforcement constitutional challenges. |
| J-8 | Anti-Injunction barriers | 26 U.S.C. §7421(a) | Preventive judicial review is restricted until after enforcement occurs. |
| J-9 | Waiver by silence | Federal waiver doctrines | Failure to object is treated as consent or acceptance. |
| J-10 | Silence as admission of status | Procedural default doctrines | Non-response is treated as evidence supporting government presumptions. |
| J-11 | Substance-over-capacity reasoning | Gregory v. Helvering, 293 U.S. 465 (1935) | Conduct allegedly becomes more important than actual capacity. |
| J-12 | Agency deference | Chevron U.S.A. Inc. v. NRDC, 467 U.S. 837 (1984); Mayo Foundation v. United States, 562 U.S. 44 (2011) | Courts defer to executive interpretations of status and jurisdiction. |
| J-13 | Pay-first-litigate-later | Flora v. United States, 362 U.S. 145 (1960) | Property allegedly must be surrendered before meaningful review is available. |
| J-14 | Administrative exhaustion | 26 U.S.C. §§7422, 7433 | Constitutional questions allegedly cannot be heard until administrative remedies are exhausted. |
| J-15 | Res judicata | Federal common law | Earlier judgments prevent later challenges to status or jurisdiction. |
| J-16 | Collateral estoppel | Montana v. United States, 440 U.S. 147 (1979) | Prior factual findings bind future proceedings. |
| J-17 | Harmless-error doctrine | Fed. R. Civ. P. 61 | Constitutional defects allegedly overlooked if characterized as non-prejudicial. |
| J-18 | Sovereign immunity | Sovereign-immunity jurisprudence | Government insulated from certain constitutional challenges. |
| J-19 | Official immunity | Harlow v. Fitzgerald, 457 U.S. 800 (1982) | Officials protected from personal liability for constitutional violations. |
| J-20 | Qualified immunity | Pearson v. Callahan, 555 U.S. 223 (2009) | Officials shielded unless rights are “clearly established.” |
| J-21 | Conversion of statutory presumptions into adjudicative facts | Assessment and deficiency jurisprudence | Administrative assumptions become judicial findings without independent proof. |
| J-22 | Judicial acceptance of information-return presumptions | W-2 and 1099 litigation generally | Third-party reports allegedly accepted as evidence of status rather than merely evidence of transactions. |
| J-23 | Judicial acceptance of jurat-based admissions | 26 U.S.C. §6065 | Signed returns allegedly treated as admissions of jurisdictional conclusions. |
| J-24 | Treating legal conclusions as evidentiary admissions | §6065; return-jurat jurisprudence | Legal characterizations on forms become evidentiary facts. |
| J-25 | Treating filing as proof of status | §§6011, 6012, 6151 | Filing activity allegedly becomes proof that the filer belongs to the regulated class. |
| J-26 | Treating prior filings as continuing estoppel | Prior-return jurisprudence | Historic compliance allegedly used as evidence of present status. |
| J-27 | Identity-capacity conflation | SSN/TIN enforcement cases | Administrative identification is allegedly treated as proof of legal capacity. |
| J-28 | Acceptance of administrative records as proof of jurisdiction | IRS Master File; Certificates of Assessment | Government-created records allegedly become evidence of the facts they presume. |
| J-29 | Expansion of statutory terms to private persons | Tax-definition cases; §7701 | Terms allegedly applicable to PUB capacities extended to PRI persons. |
| J-30 | Expansion of statutory terms to private property | Tax-definition and property cases | Public-law terminology allegedly extended to PRI property interests. |
| J-31 | Reclassification of PRI conduct as PUB conduct | Regulatory-interpretation cases | Private acts allegedly recharacterized as public acts. |
| J-32 | Constructive consent | Waiver and implied-consent doctrines | Consent inferred from conduct rather than expressly proven. |
| J-33 | Constructive election | Filing, registration, withholding systems | Participation allegedly treated as election into a public status. |
| J-34 | Presumption that economic participation creates status | Taxable-income jurisprudence generally | Income-producing activity allegedly treated as evidence of public capacity. |
| J-35 | First Amendment Petition Clause circumvention | U.S. Const. amend. I | Petition rights allegedly subordinated to discretionary review procedures. |
| J-36 | Conversion of right to petition into request for permission | Supreme Court Rule 10 | Constitutional petition allegedly transformed into discretionary certiorari request. |
| J-37 | Denial of constitutional review through discretionary docket control | Supreme Court Rule 10 | Meritorious constitutional claims may allegedly be denied review without reaching merits. |
| J-38 | Misapplication of discretionary-certiorari doctrine to PRI litigants | Judiciary Act of 1925; 28 U.S.C. §§1254, 1257 | FTSIG argues private-capacity petitioners are improperly treated as seeking discretionary privileges rather than exercising constitutional petition rights. |
| J-39 | Statutory restriction of appellate review | 28 U.S.C. §§1254, 1257 | Congressional control of appellate jurisdiction allegedly applied to constitutional petition rights. |
| J-40 | Conversion of constitutional questions into procedural questions | Standing, mootness, ripeness doctrines | Courts resolve cases on procedural grounds without reaching constitutional merits. |
| J-41 | Mootness barriers | Article III mootness doctrine | Claims may become unreviewable after enforcement concludes. |
| J-42 | Ripeness barriers | Article III ripeness doctrine | Constitutional issues delayed until enforcement has already occurred. |
| J-43 | Jurisdiction-by-presumption | Jurisdictional rulings generally | Jurisdiction allegedly assumed from administrative classifications rather than proven. |
| J-44 | PUB-to-PRI inversion | Fifth Amendment Due Process Clause | Courts allegedly presume public status and place the burden on the individual to prove otherwise. |
Under the FTSIG framework, the judicial branch concerns tend to cluster into six themes:
- Presumption doctrines (J-2 through J-4, J-21 through J-24).
- Procedural-barrier doctrines (J-7 through J-17, J-40 through J-42).
- Status-substitution doctrines (J-25 through J-34, J-43).
- Petition-Clause doctrines (J-35 through J-39).
- Immunity doctrines (J-18 through J-20).
- PUB/PRI inversion doctrines (J-44 and related entries).
This version is substantially more complete than the earlier judicial section because it includes the Petition Clause / certiorari categories, jurat-admission categories, information-return presumptions, private-property expansion theories, and status-substitution doctrines you identified.
V. HYBRID LEGISLATIVE-EXECUTIVE DOCTRINES
| # | Technique | Authorities | FTSIG Characterization |
|---|---|---|---|
| H-1 | Constructive election theory | Filing and reporting statutes | Conduct treated as election into public status. |
| H-2 | Constructive consent doctrine | Waiver and implied-consent doctrines | Consent allegedly inferred rather than proven. |
| H-3 | Reclassification of private acts as public acts | Regulatory interpretation doctrines | Private conduct recharacterized as public activity. |
| H-4 | PUB-to-PRI inversion | Fifth Amendment Due Process Clause | Government allegedly presumes public status and requires rebuttal. |
| H-5 | Expansion of public-law terminology into private property | Statutory definitions and interpretive doctrines | Public-law terms allegedly applied to private property without proving public status. |
| H-6 | Conversion of administrative presumptions into constitutional facts | Assessment and enforcement framework | Administrative assumptions allegedly become judicially accepted facts. |
| H-7 | Legal conclusion transformed into evidentiary admission | §6065 jurat and assessment process | Filing allegedly creates evidence supporting the government’s legal theory. |
| H-8 | Self-created evidence doctrine | Forms, assessments, information returns | Government-generated records allegedly become evidence of jurisdiction. |
| H-9 | Presumed status from identifiers | SSN/TIN systems and reporting statutes | Identification systems allegedly become jurisdictional substitutes. |
| H-10 | Presumed status from participation | Employment, filing, reporting, receipt of benefits | Activity itself allegedly becomes proof of status. |
Notes on “extraconstitutional doctrinal techniques” often discussed in the FTSIG context
These are not usually tied to a single statute but are often described by proponents as extra-constitutional mechanisms:
| Technique | Common Authorities |
|---|---|
| Constructive consent | Estoppel doctrines; implied consent cases |
| Constructive election | Filing, registration, withholding, reporting systems |
| Presumption of correctness | Welch v. Helvering; United States v. Janis |
| Substance-over-form | Gregory v. Helvering |
| Agency deference | Chevron and related doctrines |
| Administrative exhaustion | 26 U.S.C. §§7421, 7422 and related jurisprudence |
| Pay-first litigate-later | Flora v. United States |
| Procedural default and waiver | Federal Rules and common-law waiver doctrines |
| Res judicata and collateral estoppel | Federal preclusion doctrines |
| Frivolous-position sanctions | 26 U.S.C. §6673 |
Under the FTSIG PUB/PRI model, these doctrines are commonly characterized as mechanisms that permit enforcement without what the theory regards as the constitutionally necessary first step: proving an affirmative, voluntary, and legally sufficient election into the public capacity from which the obligation allegedly arises. Mainstream courts, however, generally do not accept that PUB/PRI premise and instead treat liability as arising directly from the Internal Revenue Code and applicable constitutional authority.
Summary
Under a strict FTSIG PUB/PRI analysis, the alleged defects fall into four broad categories:
- Status-Proving Substitutes: definitions, forms, identifiers, records, information returns, and presumptions used instead of proving a voluntary PUB election.
- Burden-Shifting Devices: presumptions of correctness, waiver doctrines, standing restrictions, and exhaustion requirements.
- Admission-Creation Mechanisms: jurats, self-assessment, filings, withholding, and reporting systems.
- Jurisdiction-Preserving Doctrines: sovereign immunity, qualified immunity, anti-injunction rules, preclusion doctrines, and judicial deference.
Those four categories collectively encompass virtually all of the due-process objections that the FTSIG PUB/PRI model raises regarding modern federal tax administration.