Professional Documents
Culture Documents
and
Legislative Sources
Chapter 3
TAX POLICY
reliability
Primary Sources of Federal Tax Law
First: Statutory sources
The U.S. Constitution
Tax Treaties
The Internal Revenue Code (IRC)
Second: Administrative sources (next chapter)
Treasury Regulations
Revenue Rulings
Third: Judicial sources (chapter 5)
The Court system
Secondary Sources of Federal Tax Law
Tax services
Tax journals and newsletters
Tax textbooks and treatises
The U.S. Constitution (First
Primary Source)
Constitutionality
Sixteenth Amendment: The Congress shall
Penalties
Penalties
Frivolous return - §6702 - $500 (there is a
proposal under current consideration to
increase this to $5,000)
Argument that tax is “Unconstitutional”
violence
Penalties (Cont’d)
Frivolous Petition (to Tax Court) - §6673
$25,000
Applied by the Tax Court
Petition filed primarily to delay
revenue collection process
Petitioner’s grounds are frivolous
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