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:

  1. Includes expansion of terms to include private propertyPRI and those in private capacityPRI.
  2. Presumption of correctness of IRS assessments.
  3. 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/
  4. 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:

  1. If no harmful activities are involved, Sovereign Power and the Public Interest Doctrine does not INVOLUNTARILY apply.
  2. Absent sovereign power, only Proprietary Power is involved.
  3. 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
#BranchTechniqueAuthorities Commonly ImplicatedFTSIG Characterization
PJ-1LegislativeTaxation of private property without consentInternal Revenue Code generallyCongress treats PRIVATE propertyPRI as though it were PUBLIC propertyPUB without proving consent to conversion.
PJ-2LegislativeRegulation of private property without consentFederal regulatory statutes generallyRegulatory authority is asserted without proof of voluntary conversion into property subject to public administration.
PJ-3LegislativeDefinition-based conversion of property26 U.S.C. §7701 and related definitionsDefinitions are alleged to change jurisdictional character without changing ownership.
PJ-4LegislativeExpansion of statutory terms into private propertyStatutory construction doctrinesDefinitions applicable to public property are allegedly extended into private property.
PJ-5LegislativeConversion by classificationAdministrative classifications created by statuteProperty allegedly becomes PUBLIC merely because government labels it as such.
PJ-6ExecutiveAdministrative conversion of property statusIRS administrative recordsBureaucratic records allegedly transform PRIVATE propertyPRI into PUBLIC propertyPUB.
PJ-7ExecutiveAdministrative assertion of ownership powers26 U.S.C. §§6321, 6331Incidents of ownership are exercised without proving authority arising from consent.
PJ-8ExecutiveAdministrative control through filing systemsForms 1040, W-4, W-9 and related formsFiling systems allegedly induce owners to characterize private property as public property.
PJ-9ExecutiveAdministrative control through record systemsAssessment and master-file systemsDatabases allegedly become the source of federal control over otherwise private property.
PJ-10ExecutiveProperty conversion through admissions26 U.S.C. §6065Jurat language allegedly creates admissions supporting public-property classifications.
PJ-11ExecutiveProperty conversion through information returnsW-2 and 1099 reporting systemsThird-party reports allegedly support public-property treatment without proving consent.
PJ-12JudicialPresumption that classified property is public propertyTax enforcement jurisprudence generallyCourts allegedly presume validity of the classification rather than requiring proof of consent.
PJ-13JudicialFailure to require proof of conversionCollection and assessment litigationCourts allegedly do not require proof that PRIVATE propertyPRI was lawfully converted into PUBLIC propertyPUB.
PJ-14JudicialPresumption of correctness applied to ownership questionsWelch v. Helvering; United States v. JanisPresumptions allegedly replace proof of lawful conversion.
PJ-15JudicialBurden shifting regarding property statusTax Court Rule 142(a)Owner allegedly bears burden to disprove public-property status.
PJ-16JudicialAdministrative records accepted as proofCertificates of assessment and related recordsGovernment records allegedly become proof of the facts necessary to justify government control.
PJ-17JudicialExpansion of statutory definitions into private propertyDefinition cases generallyStatutory terminology allegedly enlarges governmental reach into private ownership.
PJ-18Legislative / ExecutiveFranchise-property substitutionFiling and reporting systemsProperty is allegedly treated as franchise-connected property without proving a franchise relationship.
PJ-19Executive / JudicialPossession treated as evidence of public statusReporting and enforcement regimesPossession allegedly becomes evidence that property belongs in a public regulatory domain.
PJ-20All BranchesDe facto taking by classificationFifth Amendment Due Process and Takings ClausesGovernment classification allegedly substitutes for lawful acquisition of authority.
PJ-21All BranchesPUB-to-PRI inversion of ownershipFifth AmendmentProperty is presumed public enough to regulate unless owner proves otherwise.
PJ-22All BranchesGovernment-created property jurisdictionEnforcement framework generallyJurisdiction allegedly originates from governmental assertions instead of owner consent.
PJ-23All BranchesFailure to prove voluntary conversionEntire administrative processGovernment allegedly assumes conversion rather than proving it.
PJ-24All BranchesRegulation without sovereign necessity and without consentGeneral regulatory and tax regimesGovernment 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:

  1. Presumption of correctness.
  2. Information-return presumptions.
  3. Jurat admissions.
  4. Constructive consent.
  5. Constructive election.
  6. Identity-capacity conflation.
  7. Capacity by participation.
  8. Expansion of statutory definitions.
  9. 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)

#TechniqueAuthoritiesFTSIG Characterization
L-1Descriptor-to-office conversion26 U.S.C. §7701(a)Definitions allegedly substitute for proof of an actual public office or franchise.
L-2Omission of election requirementFifth Amendment; IRC generallyStatutes allegedly impose obligations without requiring proof of election into the status creating them.
L-3Definition-based jurisdiction26 U.S.C. §7701Definitions allegedly become jurisdictional facts.
L-4Capacity ambiguityInternal Revenue Code generallyStatutes allegedly blur PUB and PRI capacities.
L-5Delegation of status determination26 U.S.C. §7805Treasury allegedly given authority to define jurisdictional status.
L-6Statutory incorporation of presumptionsAssessment and reporting statutesPresumptions purportedly replace proof.
L-7Expansion of terms into private domain26 U.S.C. §7701; statutory construction doctrinesPublic-law terminology allegedly expanded to reach private persons and property.
L-8Legal-person substitution26 U.S.C. §7701(a)Natural persons and statutory persons allegedly conflated.
L-9Conflation of person and office26 U.S.C. §7701(a)(1)Offices, franchises, and natural persons allegedly treated interchangeably.
L-10Constructive election by operation of statuteFiling, reporting, withholding statutesConduct allegedly deemed an election into status without explicit consent.
L-11Capacity by participationSubtitle A structure generallyEconomic participation allegedly treated as sufficient status.
L-12Benefit-burden couplingSocial Security Act and benefit programsAcceptance of benefits allegedly treated as acceptance of unrelated obligations.
L-13Licensing inferenceFederal licensing statutesLicenses allegedly treated as proof of broader public obligations.

III. EXECUTIVE BRANCH (IRS, Treasury, Administrative Agencies)

#TechniqueAuthoritiesFTSIG Characterization
E-1Presumption of public capacity26 U.S.C. §6201Government allegedly starts from a presumption of public status.
E-2Presumption of liability26 U.S.C. §§6201, 6211Liability allegedly presumed before jurisdiction is proven.
E-3Assessment without capacity adjudication26 U.S.C. §§6201-6213Assessments allegedly occur before capacity is established.
E-4Administrative status creationIRS procedures; Treasury regulationsRecords supposedly create status rather than document it.
E-5Information-return substitution26 U.S.C. §§6041, 6051Information returns allegedly substitute for proof.
E-6Information returns as prima facie evidence of statusForms W-2 and 1099Third-party reports allegedly become evidence of legal status.
E-7Collection-first doctrine26 U.S.C. §§6321, 6331Property is allegedly reached before final adjudication.
E-8Self-assessment doctrine26 U.S.C. §6151Individual induced to admit liability.
E-9Withholding as status presumption26 U.S.C. §3402Withholding allegedly presumes status.
E-10Administrative estoppelIRS enforcement practicePrior conduct allegedly treated as proof of continuing status.
E-11Record-generated jurisdictionIRS Master File; §6203Records become evidence of jurisdiction.
E-12Enforcement-by-formForms 1040, W-4, W-9Forms allegedly create facts needed for enforcement.
E-13Identity-capacity conflationSSN/TIN systemAdministrative identifiers treated as evidence of status.
E-14Identifier equals statusSSN/TIN reporting regimePossession of identifier allegedly becomes proof of status.
E-15Filing behavior equals status acceptance§§6011, 6012, 6151Filing treated as acceptance of status.
E-16Conversion of legal conclusions into evidentiary facts through jurat26 U.S.C. §6065Jurat allegedly converts legal conclusions into admissions.
E-17Reliance upon admissions from forms deemed unreliable§§6065, 6201IRS allegedly both distrusts and relies upon return information.
E-18Administrative convenience doctrineTax administration doctrineConvenience allegedly replaces constitutional proof.
E-19Voluntary-compliance narrativeIRS publicationsVoluntary compliance terminology allegedly obscures actual jurisdictional basis.

IV. JUDICIAL BRANCH (Courts)

#TechniqueAuthoritiesFTSIG Characterization
J-1Judicial notice of statusFed. R. Evid. 201Courts allegedly accept status assumptions without requiring proof of PUB capacity.
J-2Presumption of correctness of assessmentsWelch 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-3Presumption of correctness as substitute for constitutional proofWelch; JanisEvidentiary presumptions allegedly replace proof of jurisdictional facts and status.
J-4Burden shiftingTax Court Rule 142(a)Taxpayer allegedly forced to disprove liability rather than government proving it.
J-5Circular statutory interpretationGeneral tax jurisprudenceObligation is inferred from status while status is inferred from obligation.
J-6Exclusion of capacity challengesCrain v. Commissioner, 737 F.2d 1417 (5th Cir. 1984); 26 U.S.C. §6673PUB/PRI arguments routinely characterized as frivolous rather than adjudicated on the merits.
J-7Standing restrictionsArticle III standing doctrineLimits pre-enforcement constitutional challenges.
J-8Anti-Injunction barriers26 U.S.C. §7421(a)Preventive judicial review is restricted until after enforcement occurs.
J-9Waiver by silenceFederal waiver doctrinesFailure to object is treated as consent or acceptance.
J-10Silence as admission of statusProcedural default doctrinesNon-response is treated as evidence supporting government presumptions.
J-11Substance-over-capacity reasoningGregory v. Helvering, 293 U.S. 465 (1935)Conduct allegedly becomes more important than actual capacity.
J-12Agency deferenceChevron 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-13Pay-first-litigate-laterFlora v. United States, 362 U.S. 145 (1960)Property allegedly must be surrendered before meaningful review is available.
J-14Administrative exhaustion26 U.S.C. §§7422, 7433Constitutional questions allegedly cannot be heard until administrative remedies are exhausted.
J-15Res judicataFederal common lawEarlier judgments prevent later challenges to status or jurisdiction.
J-16Collateral estoppelMontana v. United States, 440 U.S. 147 (1979)Prior factual findings bind future proceedings.
J-17Harmless-error doctrineFed. R. Civ. P. 61Constitutional defects allegedly overlooked if characterized as non-prejudicial.
J-18Sovereign immunitySovereign-immunity jurisprudenceGovernment insulated from certain constitutional challenges.
J-19Official immunityHarlow v. Fitzgerald, 457 U.S. 800 (1982)Officials protected from personal liability for constitutional violations.
J-20Qualified immunityPearson v. Callahan, 555 U.S. 223 (2009)Officials shielded unless rights are “clearly established.”
J-21Conversion of statutory presumptions into adjudicative factsAssessment and deficiency jurisprudenceAdministrative assumptions become judicial findings without independent proof.
J-22Judicial acceptance of information-return presumptionsW-2 and 1099 litigation generallyThird-party reports allegedly accepted as evidence of status rather than merely evidence of transactions.
J-23Judicial acceptance of jurat-based admissions26 U.S.C. §6065Signed returns allegedly treated as admissions of jurisdictional conclusions.
J-24Treating legal conclusions as evidentiary admissions§6065; return-jurat jurisprudenceLegal characterizations on forms become evidentiary facts.
J-25Treating filing as proof of status§§6011, 6012, 6151Filing activity allegedly becomes proof that the filer belongs to the regulated class.
J-26Treating prior filings as continuing estoppelPrior-return jurisprudenceHistoric compliance allegedly used as evidence of present status.
J-27Identity-capacity conflationSSN/TIN enforcement casesAdministrative identification is allegedly treated as proof of legal capacity.
J-28Acceptance of administrative records as proof of jurisdictionIRS Master File; Certificates of AssessmentGovernment-created records allegedly become evidence of the facts they presume.
J-29Expansion of statutory terms to private personsTax-definition cases; §7701Terms allegedly applicable to PUB capacities extended to PRI persons.
J-30Expansion of statutory terms to private propertyTax-definition and property casesPublic-law terminology allegedly extended to PRI property interests.
J-31Reclassification of PRI conduct as PUB conductRegulatory-interpretation casesPrivate acts allegedly recharacterized as public acts.
J-32Constructive consentWaiver and implied-consent doctrinesConsent inferred from conduct rather than expressly proven.
J-33Constructive electionFiling, registration, withholding systemsParticipation allegedly treated as election into a public status.
J-34Presumption that economic participation creates statusTaxable-income jurisprudence generallyIncome-producing activity allegedly treated as evidence of public capacity.
J-35First Amendment Petition Clause circumventionU.S. Const. amend. IPetition rights allegedly subordinated to discretionary review procedures.
J-36Conversion of right to petition into request for permissionSupreme Court Rule 10Constitutional petition allegedly transformed into discretionary certiorari request.
J-37Denial of constitutional review through discretionary docket controlSupreme Court Rule 10Meritorious constitutional claims may allegedly be denied review without reaching merits.
J-38Misapplication of discretionary-certiorari doctrine to PRI litigantsJudiciary Act of 1925; 28 U.S.C. §§1254, 1257FTSIG argues private-capacity petitioners are improperly treated as seeking discretionary privileges rather than exercising constitutional petition rights.
J-39Statutory restriction of appellate review28 U.S.C. §§1254, 1257Congressional control of appellate jurisdiction allegedly applied to constitutional petition rights.
J-40Conversion of constitutional questions into procedural questionsStanding, mootness, ripeness doctrinesCourts resolve cases on procedural grounds without reaching constitutional merits.
J-41Mootness barriersArticle III mootness doctrineClaims may become unreviewable after enforcement concludes.
J-42Ripeness barriersArticle III ripeness doctrineConstitutional issues delayed until enforcement has already occurred.
J-43Jurisdiction-by-presumptionJurisdictional rulings generallyJurisdiction allegedly assumed from administrative classifications rather than proven.
J-44PUB-to-PRI inversionFifth Amendment Due Process ClauseCourts 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:

  1. Presumption doctrines (J-2 through J-4, J-21 through J-24).
  2. Procedural-barrier doctrines (J-7 through J-17, J-40 through J-42).
  3. Status-substitution doctrines (J-25 through J-34, J-43).
  4. Petition-Clause doctrines (J-35 through J-39).
  5. Immunity doctrines (J-18 through J-20).
  6. 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

#TechniqueAuthoritiesFTSIG Characterization
H-1Constructive election theoryFiling and reporting statutesConduct treated as election into public status.
H-2Constructive consent doctrineWaiver and implied-consent doctrinesConsent allegedly inferred rather than proven.
H-3Reclassification of private acts as public actsRegulatory interpretation doctrinesPrivate conduct recharacterized as public activity.
H-4PUB-to-PRI inversionFifth Amendment Due Process ClauseGovernment allegedly presumes public status and requires rebuttal.
H-5Expansion of public-law terminology into private propertyStatutory definitions and interpretive doctrinesPublic-law terms allegedly applied to private property without proving public status.
H-6Conversion of administrative presumptions into constitutional factsAssessment and enforcement frameworkAdministrative assumptions allegedly become judicially accepted facts.
H-7Legal conclusion transformed into evidentiary admission§6065 jurat and assessment processFiling allegedly creates evidence supporting the government’s legal theory.
H-8Self-created evidence doctrineForms, assessments, information returnsGovernment-generated records allegedly become evidence of jurisdiction.
H-9Presumed status from identifiersSSN/TIN systems and reporting statutesIdentification systems allegedly become jurisdictional substitutes.
H-10Presumed status from participationEmployment, filing, reporting, receipt of benefitsActivity 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:

TechniqueCommon Authorities
Constructive consentEstoppel doctrines; implied consent cases
Constructive electionFiling, registration, withholding, reporting systems
Presumption of correctnessWelch v. Helvering; United States v. Janis
Substance-over-formGregory v. Helvering
Agency deferenceChevron and related doctrines
Administrative exhaustion26 U.S.C. §§7421, 7422 and related jurisprudence
Pay-first litigate-laterFlora v. United States
Procedural default and waiverFederal Rules and common-law waiver doctrines
Res judicata and collateral estoppelFederal preclusion doctrines
Frivolous-position sanctions26 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:

  1. Status-Proving Substitutes: definitions, forms, identifiers, records, information returns, and presumptions used instead of proving a voluntary PUB election.
  2. Burden-Shifting Devices: presumptions of correctness, waiver doctrines, standing restrictions, and exhaustion requirements.
  3. Admission-Creation Mechanisms: jurats, self-assessment, filings, withholding, and reporting systems.
  4. 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.