How do we know there is no law making the average
working American liable for income tax?

Every tax law must clearly and plainly identify three things:  The subject of the tax; the amount of the tax; and the persons or entities that are liable for the tax.  Even a cursory review of other tax laws, including all other federal tax laws, makes it obvious that these three elements of any tax law must be present.

The income tax law, however, is the only instance where there is no clear liability provision.  The only clear liability provision is § 1461, which assigns liability for the tax to those required to withhold taxes on Nonresident Aliens!  In fact, the term "Individual", as in "a tax is hereby imposed upon the taxable income of [married, single, etc.] individuals," is defined in 26 C.F.R. § 1.1441-1(c)(3) as a nonresident alien.

While 26 U.S.C. § 3403, which is not part of the income tax law, does require employers to withhold income tax owed by their employees, there is no law that makes the employee liable for the tax.  It is not by accident that the term "employee" applicable to § 3403 only includes government employees and officers (not employees) of corporations.

Thus, there is no law making the average working American liable for any income tax.

How has this glaring hole in the law escaped detection for so long?

When the income tax started out it was considered voluntary.  During WWII it was called the "victory tax" and was purely voluntary, but after WWII the IRS, capitalizing on the consensus that to refuse to file was unpatriotic, started demanding the tax from everyone.  In 1954 the code was rewritten to edit out all references to constitutional exemptions and to the limited Constitutional definition of "income" (profits, gains).

But the hole in the law has not escaped detection, although that discovery has been suppressed by the government and the media.  For many years, now, thousands have asked the IRS to show them the law that made them liable for the tax, but the IRS cannot produce one statute to that effect.  That is because there is no such law they can produce.

Is this deception intentional and, if so, who is in on it?

The deception is, without doubt, intentional.  The income tax law is carefully drafted to "appear" to tax everyone and everything, and the provisions of the law that admit that neither everyone nor everything is subject to the tax are hidden deep within regulations and carefully worded to avoid disclosing exactly what income "cannot" be included as income and what income is exempt.  In both cases they only tell you what "can" be included as income and what is not exempt.

The average, street-grade IRS agent, who can't read his GED certificate without moving his lips, is probably incapable of understanding that he is carrying out a deception and is more likely motivated by his need to compensate for feelings of inadequacy and inferiority by abusing and dominating others.  But with that exception, all of those involved are aware of the fact that the income tax law, as applied to personal earnings, is not only unauthorized by the law, but is prohibited by the Constitution.

Exceptions to that general rule would be the number of IRS agents and officials who, upon learning of the deception, refused to continue in the fraud.  People of principle, like Joseph R. Banister, a CPA and former IRS-CID Special Agent; Clifton Beale, CEP, A.S., B.S., MS-Taxation and former IRS Revenue Agent and Appeals Officer; Paul Chappell, Attorney and former U.S. Tax Court Clerk and IRS Chief Counsel; Sherry P. Jackson, CPA, CFE and former IRS Revenue Agent; and John Turner, E.A. and former IRS Revenue Officer.  All sacrificed their careers rather than participate in the fraudulent taking of hard-earned personal wages and salaries.  All have been relentlessly pursued and punished by the IRS for their honesty.

Congress' cunning draftsmanship, deceiving through omission and misdirection, the treasury department's and IRS's refusal to answer questions about the law and the refusal by federal judges, both district and appellate, to even read, much less apply, the law, clearly implicate all as accomplices and accessories to theft by fraud and extortion.

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What other effects has the misapplication of the income tax had on our country?

Any time part of the Constitution is injured, the rest of the Constitution feels the pain.  In this instance, the Founding Fathers intentionally restricted the taxing powers of the new federal government as a measure of restraint on its size.  By exceeding that limited taxing authority the federal government has been able to obtain resources beyond its intended reach, and that money has enabled the federal government to exceed its authority in many more ways.

Although the Constitution did not empower the federal government to regulate education in any way, shape or form, it not only does so, the Department of Education is a cabinet position.  Environmental regulation, regulation of employment, manufacturing, agriculture and personal welfare are all areas reserved to the States that the federal government has usurped and now rules to the most minute detail.

In addition, the income tax has reduced funds available for the States, requiring them to beg back some of the money the federal government has hijacked from their economies.  When these funds are given back to the states for schools, roads or other projects, they have strings attached.  The State legislatures are required to ignore the will of the people and pass laws according the dictates of a federal bureaucrat.  Speed limits, school curricula, seat belt laws, drinking age, the number and size of lights at each intersection and even school lunch menus.

By violating the taxing limitations imposed by the Constitution, the federal government has not only been enabled to expand far beyond its limited role, but has used its ill-gotten gains to kidnap our state legislatures.  Only by cutting off the enabling funding can we expect to force the federal government back into its box.

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I've heard some strange claims by some, are they true?

 It is true that there is no law making most Americans liable for the tax.  It is also true that the law does not tax income that is beyond the limited taxing authority of the federal government under the Constitution.  And it is also true that not all that "comes in" is "income" within the meaning of the Sixteenth Amendment and cannot be taxed without apportionment among the states.  To learn and understand more about these truths, you can begin by downloading and reading a memorandum covering and explaining the laws as they are written and the Constitutional law according to the Supreme Court.

There are, however, a number of "theorists" and "experts" touting and selling gimmicks and strange distortions of history and the law.  These snake oil peddlers have conned millions of dollars out of many well-intended Patriots and left a trail of broken lives in their wake.  Generally referred to as the "tin foil hat brigade", these charlatans should be avoided, not only because they will lead you to bankruptcy and prison, but because by association they discredit those who are telling the truth.  Many of these "theories" and "silver bullets" are likely the product of the IRS and intended to divert our attention from the truth.

The Truth Attack has assembled a committee of the most qualified and knowledgeable attorneys and legal experts in the country who are compiling a list of false and misleading "theories", but until then you can find a detailed listing of many of those false idols and scam artists and stories of the devastation they have caused at Becraft Briefs.