Why are some “tax-honesty” folks so scared of executing a 1040?
A. This reflects a particular filing-related misunderstanding which hinders all too many members of the “tax honesty” community from acting to secure their legal standing by filing returns appropriately. Instead, these folks are bamboozled into silence– and thus, self-imposed legal infirmity– year after year. This debilitating refusal to act is based on the mistaken belief that the filing of a return– particularly a 1040–, by itself, and without regard to the contents of the testimony thereon, constitutes the making of damaging admissions about the filer. I’ve discussed this subject a bit elsewhere, but perhaps it is time for a little elaboration. I’ll start by clarifying something for the benefit of those who have not actually read CtC, but have instead gotten what they imagine to be a sense of its lessons by way of the descriptions or explanations of others (which in some cases, at least, means from others who wish to discourage the reading of the book): What is taught about the
