100% tax deduction for medical expenses - Married sole proprietors can deduct 100% of medically related expenses form their state, federal and Social Security taxes, including: health insurance premiums, deductibles, copayments, dental, vision and more. The requirements are easy to meet and the ability to take these deductions has been around since 1954. See what the IRS doesn't like telling people.
123World : Taxation Sites - Alphabetic listing of the official taxation sites of the various countries to get information on taxation issues.
16thAmendment.com - Was the 16th Amendment ever ratified? Evidence will prove that it was not! What does this mean to you? It means you're not required to pay the Federal Income Tax!
A Tax Cut... - A Brookings institute member speaks out against tax cuts.
Abolish Income Tax and Eliminate the IRS - Abolish income taxes and stop the IRS from witholding thousands of dollars from your wages. You will learn how you can guarantee it will happen.
Advantages and Disadvantages of a Flat Tax - A paper which weighs both the benefits and the possible problems with a flat tax.
Alabama Tax Reform Issues - Alabama Arise website. A page of links to a few articles on tax burden distribution in Alabama.
America Deserves a Refund - Learn more about your tax burden. This Congressional site goes over the kinds of tax burdens you have, and how they should be reduced.
American Tax Deal Negotiators
Americans for Fair Taxation - An organization dedicated to fully replacing the revenue generated under our current federal income tax system with a single rate, FAIR TAX.
Americans for Tax Reform - ATR believes in a system in which taxes are simpler, fairer, flatter, more visible, and lower than they are today. The government's power to control your life derives from its power to tax. They believe that power should be minimized. They opposes all tax increases as a matter of principle.
An Open Letter to My Congressman - This voter asks his congressmen to explain some of the questions about the income tax that the IRS ignores...
Asset Taxation - The author proposes to replace income and inheritance tax with an asset tax, and explains how this can be done
Audit-Proofing Strategies: Audit Proofing And The IRS - If you think about it, this is the same technique that you probably use in every other aspect of your life. Planning and preparation are the key ingredients of any successful endeavor, but if you've never been through an IRS audit before, you need to know what to plan, and what to prepare for. This site has several different articles on how to avoid setting off the harmful IRS audit triggers and how to be prepared...just in case...
BDO Dunwoody LLP - A major Canadian accounting and consulting firm. The site contains useful tax information.
Bill Conklin's anti-irs.com - Bill Conklin is a paralegal and tax consultant who has 6 published wins against the IRS in the 10th Circuit Court of Appeals. He has helped hundreds of people over the last 20 years in their battles with the IRS. He has written a book on the Income Tax which proves that the IRS cannot legally require the filing of tax returns and that the courts and the government are misrepresenting the law. The IRS refers to the income tax as voluntary but prosecutes individuals who do not volunteer in violation of the law.
Build Your Own Tax Policy! - Just answer a few simple questions and let the computer tell you all about the tax policy that appears to fit you best. Completely free.
Campaign for Responsible Tax Reform - Advocates sunsetting the U.S. (IRS) tax code on December 31st, 2000.
Canadian Tax Foundation - A non-profit tax research organization analysing personal, corporate, and international tax and government finance matters.
Canadian Taxpayers Federation - An organization defending Canadians from abuse of the tax system.
Capital Gains - Tax Foundation - Senior Economist Arthur P. Hall explains who really carries most of the burden of the capital gains tax. The answer may surprise you...
Center on Budget and Policy Priorities - This organization largely opposes tax cuts...if a cut is in the air, go here to find out why it's bad.
Citizens for an Alternative Tax System - CATS is a national grass roots public interest group established to solve the very serious problems caused by the United States' unfair and destructive income tax system. The answer: Abolish the federal income tax completely and replace it with a National Retail Sales Tax.
Citizens for an Alternative Tax System-Las Vegas Chapter - A nationwide non-profit group dedicated to replacing the IRS and income tax with a National Retail Sales Tax (NRST).
Citizens for Tax Justice - CTJ is a non-profit research and advocacy group focusing on federal, state and local tax policy, largely pro-tax.
Cole Taylor Deferred Exchange Corp.
Concord Supports CBPP Report on Tax Cuts - The Concord Coalition strongly opposes inclusion of a tax cut in a plan to balance the federal budget. This page explains why...
Constitutional Limits to Taxes, Spending & Borrowing - This site shows the history of government spending and advocates Constitutional Limits.
Customs Tariff Schedule, 1998 - Downloadable files and a wizard for all your customs tariffs needs.
David M. Sherman - An expert in Canadian GST, PST and Income Tax law. Besides his numerous publications, he is also available for professional consulting.
Deficits and Inflation: A Tax on the Poor - How the government puts heavy taxes directly on the poor and middle class, through deficits and inflation.
Devvy Kidd - A site full of info on the questionable ratification of several amendments to the Constitution, other Constitutional issues, and "the Project on Winning Economic Reform" (PoWER)
Dick Gephardt's 10% Tax Plan - Democratic minority leader Richard Gephardt has proposed this flat tax as a way of reducing the burden on the American people.
Do You Get Your Money's Worth from Your Taxes? - This site will calculate (without telling the web server) how much you're going to be forced to pay in U.S. taxes for the next year, based on you typing in a couple of lines of your paycheck.
Eight Reasons Not to Cut the Capital Gains Tax - Slate - Michael Kinsley presents some arguments against Capital Gains tax cuts. He presents this as a list of responses to specific arguments for cutting them.
Equitax
Ernst & Young LLP National Tax Dept.
Farewell, Tax Code - The newly released report by Jack Kemp's National Commission on Economic Growth and Tax Reform holds the promise of dramatic improvement in the well-being of all Americans. It provides the needed philosophical underpinning to construct a model tax system for our Nation and, hopefully, marks a milestone in saying farewell to the onerous tax code we've all come to know and hate.
Find Out How Much Hidden Gasoline Tax You Pay. - This site will tell you exactly how much you're paying in hidden gasoline tax, for your state, and how much gas would cost without the tax. Did you know it's often as much as a 100% sales tax or more?
Flashback - Can We Afford a Tax Cut? - The Atlantic Monthly's brilliant summary of a century of articles on a given topic - in this case, tax cuts, which the Atlantic Monthly has apparently opposed for generations...
Flat Tax 2000 - Organization of Massachusetts Republicans for the flat tax.
Flat Tax Calculator - Try out the flat tax yourself, and see how you'll do. This calculator will instantly tell you what you'd pay and save.
Flat Tax Fiasco - Debunks the myths of a flat tax panacea.
flattax.gov - Information on flat tax proposals.
Freedom Law School - Freedom Law School was founded to assist those freedom loving and self-responsible people who are committed to living their lives free of oppressive control and taxation by governments and their agents and live free, in pursuit of happiness.
Gasoline Excise Tax--Historical Revenues: Fact Sheet - A history of the national gasoline tax, including yearly revenues since it began. Note that the revenues are in "thousands of dollars", so are actually a thousand times higher than listed.
GOP's Myopia on Debt Retirement - Cato Institute says that using surpluses to cut marginal tax rates is the most economically productive use of tax surpluses. By reducing the debt rather than cutting taxes, "Congress is squandering a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to fix our federal tax and retirement programs that nearly all Americans recognize as economically dysfunctional."
Grandfather Tax Report - A graphical presentation showing the average worker needed to work 5 months to cover all taxes (federal plus state/local government), compared to working 1.4 months 70 years ago. This means we must work an extra four months each year to cover government spending. By an ODP "Cool Site".
Green Taxes Report - Article advocating heavy taxes on politically incorrect resources, like coal, on the theory that this will reduce pollution.
GTM Associates Nanny Payroll - Introducing EasyPay, a nanny tax and payroll service.
Henry George Institute - An organization and philosophy advocating a huge 100% tax on all land.
HM Customs & Excise - This site includes information about the UK's Custom and Excise Department and includes the prototype on-line VAT (Value Added Tax) returns system.
Home Day Care: Tax Advantage or Tax Headache? - Tax Advantages and Disadvantages for Family Daycares
How to Annoy the IRS - IRS abuses citizens, you can fight the IRS. Resistance is NOT futile! The IRS routinely destroys people's lives in a capricious way. Case histories, links, references. Also VERY amusing.
How to Avoid an Audit - This is a very informative article on how, when filing a tax return, to avoid setting off one of dangerous IRS triggers that cause them to unfairly audit people.
Inform America - INFORM AMERICA! has mushroomed into one of the most information-intensive sites in existence on constitutional tax law as it applies to the American citizen living and working within the (now) 50 States of the Union.
Information and Misinformation about Federal Tax Burdens - Center on Budget and Policy Priorities. "The percentage of income that typical middle-class families pay in federal taxes is often overstated."
Inland Revenue - Responsible for the administration of income tax, national insurance contributions, corporation tax, capital gains tax, petroleum revenue tax, inheritance tax and stamp duties.
Institute for Research on the Economics of Taxation - A non-profit, non-partisan economic research institute, dedicated to the belief that constructive, free-market economic policies are essential for the nation's economic progress, and that the private sector is the principal engine of economic growth.
Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy - ITEP is a non-profit research group focusing on federal, state and local tax policy. ITEP's Microsimulation Tax Model can calculate the impact of current tax law and tax change proposals on taxpayers by income level.
Insurance Taxation and Regulation Publications
Integritax
Internal Revenue Service Crimes Against the People - &TOTSE - This article is based on a book by U.S. Representative George Hansen, of Idaho - it contains a great deal of information on the wrongs committed by the IRS
Internet Tax Freedom Act - on application of U.S. state sales taxes to Internet commerce. Official government page.
Internet Taxation and the States - Argues that a U.S. federal "moratorium" on Internet commerce taxes would erode state and local revenues and shift burdens to lower-income households. (May 11, 1998)
IRS Defensive Procedures - This home page is dedicated to any person who wants to learn about his rights, as guaranteed by the 5th Amendment to the Constitution for the United States of America, particularly as a right against the IRS. "Only the rare taxpayer would be likely to know that he could refuse to produce his records to IRS agents ..." United States v. Dickerson, 413 F.2d 1111 (7th Cir. 1969)
IRS 1040EZ tax form
IRS special agent challenges system - "The Internal Revenue Service is everything the so-called tax protesters said it was; non-responsive, unable to withstand scrutiny, tyrannical, and oblivious to the rule of law and the U.S. Constitution." - Joseph Bannister, ex IRS special investigator
JEC Flat Tax - The Joint Economic Committee's extensive report on the Flat Tax.
Joseph Adams' Tax Protester Hall of Fame - Court cases that address the legal theories of "sovereign citizens"
Last Chance for Washington to Show Good Faith on the Budget -- Heritage - Congress and the President keep breaking the trust of the taxpayers by spending more than their budget agreements allow. The Heritage Foundation says the only way to prevent this is for them to actually eliminate the wasteful programs and cut taxes, instead of playing games with high spending now and "tax cuts" which they pretend will come in the distant future.
Lincoln Institute of Land Policy - Focus on land economics and taxation. Goals are to integrate the theory and practice of land use and taxation and to understand the forces that influence them. Has 3 program areas: Taxation of Land and Buildings, Land Markets, and Land as Common Property.
Lower Taxes
Max Tax - Max Tax is driving a debate that comes to the heart of how a free society operates. In peace-time, the most government should tax its citizens is 25% of total income.
Michael Gray, CPA's Bottom Line - Free monthly newsletter about the US tax code and tax law.
Nanny Taxes! Nanny payroll and tax services offered by Home/Work Solutions - Home/Work Solutions offers payroll and tax services to families employing nannies and other domestic workers. Nanny tax compliance services. We are the Nanny Tax Experts.
National Jewish Council Position on Tax Issues - This organization's position paper in support of tax cuts.
National Review: The Right Data 04/21/97 - An article from the National Review shows why a flat tax would help everyone.
National Taxpayers Union - NTU is the largest grassroots taxpayer organization with more than 300,000 members across all fifty states. NTU lobbies Congress and state legislatures, educates politicians and the media on important taxpayer issues and teaches its members how to become effective, united citizen lobbyists.
Nationwide Tax Negotiators
No Death Tax - No Death Tax is committed to creating a network of citizens from across the entire country to give Congress and the President the political will to eliminate the Death Tax.
Passport Society - We offer complete eradication of probate, gift, estate, and inheritance taxes; Reduction to near zero rates of federal income taxes and state income taxes (regardless of country of origin); Complete escape from social security taxes, capital gain taxes, and Medicaid taxes; Escape the ravages of law suits, judgements, seizures, liens, bankruptcy, malpractice and divorce actions!
Policy and Taxation Group - Home - Policy and Taxation Group is dedicated to the elimination of the estate and gift taxes ("death taxes") and the elimination of the destructive effect that those taxes have on families, family businesses, job creation, the national economy and government revenues.
Policy.com- Issue Analysis: Flat Tax - An impressive list of summaries and links to articles arguing for or against a flat tax, or on matters which affect that issue.
Policy.com- Issue Analysis: Targeted Tax Cuts - Summaries of and links to many important articles on cutting taxes
Policy.com- Issue Analysis: Tax Code - A useful list of articles (including summaries and links) on all sides of the tax issue.
PowerProfit - Offers tax strategies for small businesses.
Presidential Tax Returns
Progressive and Regressive taxes/taxation explained - Essay discussing the concepts of progressivity in taxation, the role of taxation in regulating the economy, and explaining why sales taxes are considered to be regressive.
Q&A on U.S. Tax Topics - FAQs regarding the current U.S. and local tax systems, from Citizens for Tax Justice. Defends the death tax and advocates lifting the Social Security tax cap, so that all income was taxed instead of a limited amount.
Quatloos! Anti-IRS Theories - Inane tax protestor theories which never, ever win.
Quick Facts
Repeal the Tax on Talking! - The Federal Excise Tax on telephone service was enacted by the Federal government in 1898 as a temporary luxury tax to help fund the Spanish American War. It's time to end this tax on talking!
Robert D. Burch Center for Tax Policy and Public Finance - Established at the University of California, Berkeley, to promote research in tax policy and public finance.
Sales Tax Institute
Simplified Progressive Tax System - This system would eliminate tax deductions, but with a four level system where the more you make, the higher a percentage you pay, 40% of your income if you make $65,000 per year.
Simplified Tax And Wage Reporting System - The Simplified Tax and Wage Reporting System (STAWRS) web site offers employers a guide to federal and state tax and wage reporting information.
Tax assistance and forms
Tax Cuts, Economic Growth, and Tax Revenue - If the economy grows faster in response to lower tax rates, then a tax cut will "cost" less than expected. The extent of this economic "feedback" is at the heart of the long-running debate about tax cuts -- a debate recently reignited by new proposals to cut tax rates
Tax Discussion Forum - Forum and live chat for discussing tax issues from small businesses.
Tax Due Process Help Strategies, N.I.T.E - Income Tax defense and relief dealing with IRS issues, federal and income taxes. The rule of law.
Tax Foundation - One of the U.S.' original public policy research groups, monitoring fiscal issues at the federal, state and local levels since 1937. Web site includes data on taxes and spending at all levels of government, including "Tax Freedom Day," "Tax Bite in the Eight-Hour Day," federal taxes by state compared to federal spending, "The Price of Civilized Society," who pays federal income taxes, as well as information on capital gains taxes, corporate taxes, the median family's tax burden, and the latest tax bill.
Tax Freedom 101 - Since l984, the Save-A-Patriot Fellowship of Westminster, Maryland has offered a $10,000 Cash Reward to ANYONE who can disprove the following statements of FACT and LAW: 'American Citizens and permanent resident aliens, living and working within the States of the Union ARE NOT SUBJECT to the filing of an IRS Form 1040 and ARE NOT LIABLE for the payment of a tax on "income".'
Tax Freedom Day - Tax Foundation - On April 15, 1999, the Tax Foundation announced its annual calculation of Tax Freedom Day. It is May 11th this year, the latest date ever. This means that the typical taxpayer would have to work until May 11th just to pay his tax burden, before he could keep anything for himself!
Tax Meat! - Claims there should be establishing an excise tax on meat. Gives arguments relating to health care and the environment.
Tax News Center - Provides news and reports related to Federal, State, and Local tax laws.
Tax Policy: Economic Studies: Brookings Institution - The Brookings institute takes a strong stand against cutting U.S. taxes.
Tax Protestor Myths - Short answers to the myths put forward by the tax protest movement
Tax Reduction Letter, The - newsletter
Tax Reform - Tax Foundation - Any of the major congressional tax reform proposals -- the Armey-Shelby flat tax, the Schaefer-Tauzin national sales tax, and the Nunn-Domenici USA Tax System -- would lower a typical middle-class family's tax burden, according to a Tax Foundation analysis.
Tax Reform -- About.com - Information, arguments, and grass-roots efforts to improve the U.S. federal tax system, particularly through drastic overhaul.
Tax Reform: Flat Tax - U.S. Government Info/Resources - About the Armey/Shelby Flat Tax income tax proposal, from your About.com Guide
Tax Software Resource Center - Vendor of downloadable Canadian income tax software. The site has a free Canadian income tax calculator.
TAX-FREEDOM.COM - A website dedicated to helping people pay only what they legally owe in taxes.
TaxFacts
Taxgate - Income Tax News - This organization says that you can be legally exempt from all income taxes, for various perfectly legal reasons, and that the IRS hides this from you to boost its take
Taxing the internet - by Pat Fish - Six Republican candidates participated in a debate on December 2, 1999 exploring the issue of internet taxation.
TaxLibrary.com
Taxpayers for Common Sense - Taxpayers for Common Sense is a non-profit, non-partisan budget watchdog group.
TaxProphet Hot Topics, Tax Protester Movement - Circus legend P.T. Barnum's famous saying, "There's a sucker born every minute!" accurately describes the tax protestor movement. Today's hucksters are getting rich promoting the notion that one does not have to pay federal income taxes. The victims of these scams pay twice: once to the huckster who entices them to a seminar or sells them a book costing big bucks; and again when the IRS or the Courts levy huge penalties and fines, in addition to the taxes owed plus interest.
Telecommunications Tax Policies: Implications For The Digital Age - This paper emphasizes the importance of the telecommunications industry in the new economy, and argues that industry-specific taxes do not make sense in a competitive telecommunications environment.
Tennesseans for Fair Taxation - Grassroots organization dedicated to establishing a state income tax and altering the sales tax to shift the burden more to middle and upper classes.
The ABCs of the Capital Gains Tax - Cato Institute - Experts at a leading think tank explain the capital gains tax, and how having it (or cutting it) affects the economy. A must-read
The Adjudicator's Office: - Site explains the mechanism for complaining about the Inland Revenue & Valuation Office and HM Customs & Excise.
The Alexis de Tocqueville Institution - A non-partisan, non-profit educational research foundation conducting, publishing and publicizing research on the promotion and perfection of economic liberty, political freedom, opportunity and democracy in the United States and around the world
The Center For The Study Of Taxation - The Center for the Study of Taxation ("CST") was formed in 1992 by a group of families and family-owned enterprises concerned with the impact of estate, gift and generation-skipping taxes ("Death Taxes"). It is dedicated to preserving a healthy economic and tax climate that will be beneficial to all Americans.
The Flat Tax Home Page - House Majority Leader Dick Armey makes the case for the flat tax.
The Future of State Taxation - Book available from the Urban Institute.
The Impact of Capital Gains Tax Reductions - The American Council for Capital Formation offered this testimony to Congress on how capital gains tax cuts would be a tremendous help to the US economy.
The Ronald Reagan Home Page:The Tax Cuts - The Reagan Home Page presents statistics which demonstrate the benefits of the Reagan tax cuts for all people, even the poorest.
The Taxation Institute of Hong Kong - Incorporated in 1972, the Institute's prime objectives are to promote the study of taxation and the exchange of information and views on taxation.
The We The People Organization - Has purpose of conducting a statewide educational effort to information citizens about the New York State Constitution, its importance in maintaining individual liberty and popular sovereignty, the necessity for citizens maintaining an attitude of vigilance against the wrongdoings that can occur when that Constitution is misinterpreted or disregarded, and actions that must be taken in translating citizen knowledge into productive activity that will bring remedial pressure to bear against inappropriate State and local governmental actions.
Trim the IRS, Sen. Allard? Beef it up instead - John Knezovich, the former Mayor of Fort Collins and a certified public accountant, argues that the US IRS should actually be expanded to improve income tax compliance and thus enable Congress to lower business and capital-gains taxes.
Truth in Taxation - Millions of Americans have already dropped out of the income tax system. Many of our political leaders in Washington want to see the end of this tax as well. When you hear the IRS admit that it's a voluntary system, and when you learn where your money really goes, you'll want out, too! And when you get our materials, you'll find that you can get out—legally, and WITHOUT FEAR!
U.S. Tax Reform - includes summaries of major tax reform proposals
Valuation Office Agency - Site explaining the role of the VOA in connection with council tax bands, rating assessments of non-domestic property, Capital Gains and Inheritance Tax valuations and "right to buy" determinations in the UK.
Welcome to ISP / Bienvenue au PSR - Income Supplement or the Spouse's Allowance
Why America Needs a Tax Cut - This book is actually online at the Heritage Foundation. Why America Needs a Tax Cut provides the intellectual ammunition for tax activists and all American taxpayers who instinctively know they are overtaxed by an unfair, complicated, and burdensome tax system. -- House Majority Leader Dick Armey
World Travel and Tourism Tax Policy Center