1913 Federal Reserve Act and Federal Income Tax
Lara Logan: How did this all start, Joe? I mean, I know it goes back to the 1913 Federal Reserve Act, and then of course, when taxes were first introduced, a federal income tax was supposed to be attempted, right?
1913 Fraudulent 16th Amendment
Former IRS Investigator Joe Banister: There was an federal income tax attempt in the late 1800s that was declared unconstitutional. So for a 20, 30 year period, they went back to the drawing board, bankers and everyone. How do we, we need to extract more money from the people. So in 1913, the 16th Amendment was proposed, offered out for ratification. The evidence shows that the 16th Amendment was not ratified. It was fraudulently ratified. So really, the federal income tax was a bastard child from the moment of inception in 1913. Then as you mentioned, the Federal Reserve Act was also passed in the exact same year, not a coincidence. By 1916, the Supreme Court actually ruled that the 16th Amendment, the federal income tax amendment, did not expand the federal income tax. So for all that effort of getting an federal income tax amendment to the Constitution, that was fraudulently ratified anyway. Even if it was legitimately ratified, the Supreme Court said, there’s no new power. Whatever power the federal government had before the 16th Amendment is the same as after. That’s actually where the beginnings of the obfuscation, shall we say, in 1916, where the paper trail that I’ve reviewed starts.
World War II and Propaganda
Former IRS Investigator Joe Banister: What happens is that the government, the Treasury, with the Congress, began to obscure in the actual written laws, who was actually required to pay. Then when World War Two came along, you’d have all the propaganda relating to funding the war. Then after the war, all the debt, and you know, we need to pay off the war debts, and everybody needs to get hit from a broken boat. That’s when withholding became ubiquitous, withholding from people’s paychecks. So it’s been a very slow process. Then, of course, you know, one generation to the next, it’s like, well, my parents filed a tax return. I’ve got to do that, too, right?
Lara Logan: Yes. You know, you can’t do anything without it, right? You can’t get a mortgage on a home or many other things, because people want to see your tax returns. So it’s really still quite a powerful weapon of control.
Joe Banister Working for and Questioning the IRS About Tax Laws
Former IRS Investigator Joe Banister: So I went to the IRS as an IRS employee, as a criminal investigator and said, Hey, can you show me where I’ve gone wrong here? Doing these court cases, these laws? They’re like, No, we don’t want to talk about it. Then after I left the IRS, through the media, or through letters to the IRS, I continued to seek answers to my questions. So I basically have to just go on what I know to be true.
How Joe Defeats the IRS with Truth and Logic
Former IRS Investigator Joe Banister: So here we are 26 years later, having not filed tax returns. When you talked about me being prosecuted, I was indicted in 2004. So I had already been gone from the IRS five years. Yet there was no charges relating to not filing a tax return, which as a former criminal investigator, I thought was odd, right? I mean, why wouldn’t you throw the book in jail and include the fact that you already haven’t filed tax returns in five years, they went through other to other charges that had nothing to do with my personal circumstances, but that was odd. Then they also went for criminal first, and then civil harassment later. In the civil harassment, I get these IRS notices saying to all this money,
IRS Computer Systems – Fraudulent Computer Codes
I did FOIA requests to determine what’s the backstory with what are the IRS computer systems say about these notices, and I come to find out that the IRS computer systems were actually being fraudulent computer codes were actually put into the IRS computer systems in order to generate these so called assessments and notices telling you that if you’re living and working in the United States, you can’t find any law that makes you liable to pay a federal income tax on your earnings. It’s not there at all.
Conspiracy? Nonsense? Not True? The Laws of the Tax Code
Lara Logan: So what you’re saying, and I want to be very clear, because obviously, there’s lots of pushback, right? There’s lots of people that say this is nonsense. It’s conspiracy. It’s made up. It’s not true. Don’t mess with the IRS, because you’ll pay, right? They’ll come for you. This is going to cost you. So don’t believe these kooks. So to understand exactly what it is you’re saying, are we talking about the way the tax code is written? Right?
Former IRS Investigator Joe Banister: Yes. The laws of the tax code. Right.
NO LAW THAT MAKES YOU LIABLE TO PAY A FEDERAL INCOE TAX ON YOUR EARNINGS
Lara Logan: You’re saying it doesn’t apply. It doesn’t specifically mention American citizens,
Former IRS Investigator Joe Banister: right? If you’re living and working in the United States, you can’t find any law that makes you liable to pay a federal income tax on your earnings. It’s not there at all.
Submitting a Tax Return is a Contract
Lara Logan: Yet, once you submit a tax return, you have now really sort of created a contract between yourself and the IRS, which now gives them authority to determine how much taxes they say you owe them. Is that is that also what you’re saying?
Former IRS Investigator Joe Banister: Yes, you’re presenting a form that they’ve created, but they’ve created for other circumstances. You’ve filled out the form. You say I owe the tax, and the IRS has the absolute authority to assess the tax that you present.
