Westchester resident Tony Futia, above, who is currently involved in a Federal lawsuit against the IRS challenging whether the Federal Income Tax is voluntary, took his case to the Westchester County Board of Legislators on September 18.
In the public comment portion of the meeting, Futia outlined his case and left documents from his lawsuit, Futia vs. the United States, for every legislator.
Futia briefly reviewed the 16th Amendment to the US Constitution, which reads, The Congress shall have power to lay and collect taxes on incomes, from whatever source derived, without apportionment among the several States, and without regard to any census or enumeration.
Futia argues that the 16th Amendment does not require all Americans to pay a Federal Income tax. Only Federal employees are required to pay an income tax, and there is no law that says every other American has to pay a Federal income tax.
Futia also argues that New York State did not ratify the 16th amendment in 1911. “Any law requiring a person to sign and file a tax return would violate that person’s 5th Amendment right not to be a witness against himself and his 5th and 14th Amendment right to due process. That’s why the IRS declares the filing of a tax return to be voluntary,” argues Futia
Futia, who has not paid his income tax since 2014, became more public about his views that the Federal income tax is voluntary in our newspapers and online at Yonkerstimes.com last year. Since then, several notices of liens have been placed on his social security, pension and bank accounts, by the Westchester County Clerk and the NYS Comptroller’s office.
But Futia believes that the liens placed on his pension are invalid because they are not signed by a judge, and added that he will file lawsuits against the county clerk and state comptroller for improperly enforcing the liens. Read all about Futia’s case at Yonkerstimes.com and on his go fund me page, www.gofundme.com/f/help-me-fight-the-irs-to-benefit-all-americans.
Below is a recent ad that Futia placed in Westchester Rising and Yonkers Rising
