What Law Requires Us To Pay Taxes?  Email  Print Print    1040
Tax FormsHardly a week goes by when someone doesn’t discover my
page on IRS tax brackets and leaves a comment about how there is
no law requiring us to pay income taxes. Every once and a while,
you hear a story about someone refusing to pay their taxes and
getting locked up and penalized for it. Case in point, just last
month a couple in New York were convicted, between them, of
seven felony counts (5 counts of tax evasion and 2 counts of
conspiring to defraud the government).  You are legally required
to pay income tax. To argue otherwise is at best a political
statement (which I think is fine, it’s our First Amendment
right) and at worst a one way trip to the slammer.  Want to know
which law requires it? Read on.  Internal Revenue Code  Tax law
itself is codified in the Internal Revenue Code, which is known
as Title 26 in the United States Code. The United States Code,
as defined by the Government Printing Office, is the
codification of general