The Great Income Tax Hoax

Welcome to the Net-based copy of 16 chapters of Irwin Schiff's masterpiece on the US "Income Tax"!

Laws are the whitewash that governments use to disguise the ugly fact that they steal money from productive people, then use it to control how they live their lives. Being merely one-sided contracts, laws have no moral validity whatsoever; but eight generations of government schooling have conned Americans into supposing that they are magic, to be held in respect and awe. Accordingly, if there is a tax law, most people tend to obey it.

In this masterpiece, perhaps the most important book he ever wrote, Irwin Schiff shows that there is no such thing; how even that veneer of respectability falls off the "income tax" when its origins are systematically probed.

Chapters 17 and 18 are omitted, for they have been superseded by all of the extensive, legal avoidance techniques that he has developed since completing the book in 1985 and which can be downloaded from his web site. Also omitted for brevity's sake are the extensive Appendices.

Each page of the book is accessible through this Home or Index page as below, just as one might access the pages of the physical book. Each (except this one) consists of an .htm "frame" and a .gif image that was scanned for the purpose; the reader is welcome to save any page on his own PC but to do so, both those files need to be downloaded to the same subdirectory.

However the book can be read on-line, turning the pages just as one would in an armchair - each takes a few seconds to download. For one's first read, it's best to start at the beginning and proceed in sequence. At the foot of each page are links to the one previous, the one following, and to this index ("any page".)

Front Cover Inside Front Cover Title Copyright etc Dedication Contents Author Bio Back Cover

Introduction

Chapter 1: Direct vs Indirect Taxes

Chapter 2: Constitutional Restrictions Regarding Direct vs Indirect Taxes

Chapter 3: The Intent of the Constitution

Chapter 4: The Federal Government's General Taxing Powers

Chapter 5: What the US Government and America Are All About

Chapter 6: Federal Real Estate Taxes - How They Were Levied and Collected

Chapter 7: The Civil War: The Seeds of Tax Tyranny Are Sown

Chapter 8: The Supreme Court Declares an Income Tax Unconstitutional

Chapter 9: The Agitation for the Income Tax, 1895-1909

Chapter 10: The Corporation Exceise Tax of 1909

Chapter 11: The Sixteenth Amendment

Chapter 12: Surprise! The Income Tax is an Excise Tax - the Brushaber Decision

Chapter 13: Income - What Is It?

Chapter 14: Why No One Can Have Taxable Income

Chapter 15: Income Tax "Laws" and How the IRS Disregards Them

Chapter 16: The Federal "Judiciary"