^^^ I haven't looked at IRS paperwork for a long time. So I ask... Years ago the IRS said in many of their pamphlets that the income tax was voluntary. And they twisted
voluntary compliance wording into all kinds of stuff to make it look like people had to pay. Is there still this
voluntary compliance wording in their paperwork?
Here is what all IRS payment is all about. If your next door neighbor says that you owe him $100,000 out of the blue, and he builds a case out of it over a period of months, and he takes you to court over it even though he has nothing more than talk to his claims, if you don't properly answer him, you just might wind up owing him, even though there was nothing behind the claims in the first place.
The Constitution doesn't allow for the kind of tax that the IRS tax is. They get around it by getting you to sign an agreement of any kind with them. The Constitution allows agreements, and not even government can interfere with an agreement. Of course, the IRS doesn't tell you that you owe because of signed agreements.
The trick is to use the right wording to defend yourself, without accidentally agreeing that the IRS has a legitimate agreement with you. It starts with not signing paperwork with them in the first place... or how you sign the paperwork when you do. The W-4 Form is IRS paperwork. And there are many others. The answer is to NOT give them your money and private life info, and to sign any IRS docs
non-assumpsit... no contract or agreement.
There is a lot more, and this isn't the place. You might start by listening to all the talks,
here https://www.youtube.com/c/CraigLynch/videos that have anything to do with the IRS.