How to live at peace
with the Internal Revenue Service

“Getting along” should not be hard. If you want to “get along” with the Highway Patrolman following you on the freeway don't speed. If you want to get along with the IRS, learn what makes them tromp on the gas and catch up with you so they can write a ticket.

When you are driving down the road, if you pull over in front of the patrolman, do you expect him to stop and ask if he can help you? No. If you find him stopped and you pull along side to ask him directions, will he help you? Maybe, but not if he gets a call. Off he goes if he sees trouble. Your question will not be answered. The IRS agent is a patrolman of revenue. He has no answers for you either. His life is too complicated. He has too much to do. Expect no answers.

But getting along with the IRS is simple: the highway patrolman does not want you to speed; the IRS agent “patrolman” does not want you to have net income. The highway patrolman does not care what kind of car you drive, or how old it is. He just does not want you to speed or to drive without a seat belt. The Internal Revenue Severice does not care how many millions of dollars you handle in a year. It is the amount you have left over that they penalize. They will write you a ticket if they see evidence that you got money that you did not report on their form.

They will also write you a ticket if you do not do the math correctly. Believe me. I did the math backward one year and showed that the deficit for Truth Radio was LESS than accurate math showed. I subtracted wrong and reported a figure that showed we had done less badly than the raw data showed. What happened? The IRS wrote us a ticket. Nothing happened at the audit, because there was no net revenue, but we got a ticket. We had to be audited.

Net revenue is like speeding. It is WRONG. You will be fined if you have anything left over. You can build a billion dollar complex for your business and enjoy all deductible perks you can dream up. So long as you have nothing left at the end of the year, you will not be fined for having “income.” But if you DO pay a tax on that net income, do not expect the IRS agent who audits you to be friendly or fair. The poor souls are not well trained, and they are overburdened with cases, and their supervisors pester them -- require them -- to make unfair assessments, to drag out the maximum amount of money from you -- to make the process such a burden that you will cave in. They want you to think, "Why fight?" I can't win. So, if you don't want to lose, don't make net income.

As you think this through, reject all thoughts that you do not have to file. You must. The Constitution says you don't have to, but you must. There is no law that says you have to file, but you must. The Constitution and the lawbooks cannot be trusted. Only the judge will pronounce the law, and he will agree with the IRS almost every time. Don't think you can concoct some method of co-mingling or blurring the handling of your funds in order to shuffle your papers in a way that will allow you to make net income that the IRS will not find. In most cases they will find it, and you will be in deep trouble.

You can feel sorry for the invalid reasoning the IRS posts at www.irs.gov, but remember, the “traffic cops” working for the Internal Revenue Service are paid only because they have faith in that bad logic. That's how they earn their money. Don't fight it. Work with it. Do not be creative. Don't employ people. Forget serving others for pay. Be a laggard. Live on the government. They have an infinite amount of money. It won't matter if they write another welfare check. The economy won't even feel it. Just remember: having net income is a crime. Live legal. If you serve people – volunteer. Work free. But live legally. Never allow yourself to have anything left over at the end of the year.

The traffic cop might put cuffs on you, but the Internal Revenue Service will not fool around. Make money in a way the IRS doesn't like and you will go to prison with our Truth Radio talk show host Dr. Kent Hovind.

Don't go to prison. Life's too short.

Will this cause problems? If everybody stops serving and lets government pay their bills through welfare won't that create problems? Congress does not think so. The poorer you are, the richer Congressmembers become. They love power. They think they have all the answers. If the baker quits baking bread, let Congress eat cake.