Letter to IRS explaining why I cannot pay taxes in the United States

A formal statement for the record

After several years of consideration of the difficult question of taxation, and discussions with a broad range of associates concerning this matter, I have decided that it is unethical, and a clear violation of the law, for me to pay taxes in the United States under the current conditions.

I mailed this formal letter last week and I stand by it. I welcome a discussion with anyone in the IRS or elsewhere who is following the law and the Constitition.

I plan to give a speech specifically on the issue of taxes in the near future.

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Mr. Danny Werfel

Commissioner

Internal Revenue Service

Department of the Treasury
Austin, TX 73301-0215
USA

April 7, 2025

Emanuel Pastreich

Citizen of the United States of America

Social Security #486-⃞-⃞-⃞-⃞-⃞-⃞-

Dear Commissioner Werfel,

I am writing to you today to inform you that it is not legally possible for me to pay federal income tax using the standard 1040 income tax form for the year of 2024. For me to do so would be a violation of both federal law and of the Constitution of the United States of America.

The entire federal government of the United States is currently being run by an illegitimate regime that reports to private finance and to a small group of billionaires in blatant violation of federal law and the Constitution. I am happy to present the overwhelming evidence for this tragic state of affairs.

Most notably, the so-called “Department of Government Efficiency” and other private organizations, following the criminal and treasonous game plan outlined in Project 2025, have gutted what was left of the federal government and rendered it as a headless beast reporting to the billionaires that cannot be described as a “federal government” in any legal sense. In effect, the money collected by the Internal Revenue Service does not go to cover government expenses in accord with the law at all, but rather is being used to enrich a small group of multinational banks and corporations.

Government expenses are paid for primarily through the printing of money by the Federal Reserve, that is to say the creation of debt by private banks, and not with taxes in accord with the Constitution. To put it more bluntly, multinational banks, claiming to be “American,” are engaged in blatant counterfeiting under the banners of the Federal Reserve and the Department of the Treasury.

I cannot pay taxes to an illegitimate institution that violates the law and the Constitution of the United States in its daily governance.

The expenditures made by what remains of the Federal government today are both opaque and unaccountable thus making the payment of taxes participation in a criminal conspiracy at best. For me to pay taxes towards this goal would be an illegal act in itself.

As you are fully aware, the Secretary of the Treasury Mr. Scott Bessent, is playing a central role in the current illegal efforts to transfer the functions of government to private equity, which he represents directly. For this reason, and others, the Department of the Treasury no longer possesses the authority or the legitimacy to demand taxes from citizens.

I am happy to provide a far longer explanation of why the federal government has no authority to demand taxes from me, or from any citizen.

I promise that when a constitutional republic is established again in the United States that I will be delighted to pay taxes to support the legitimate functions of a republican form of government that is independent from parasitic financial institutions.

At the same time, however, we must recognize that the billionaire class has made trillions of dollars through the militarization of our society and the destruction of the government and the economy of the people using the 9.11 false flag attack, the rigged-up war on terror, the COVID-19 reign of terror, and numerous other state crimes. It is essential that working citizens be given a tax holiday for at least five years that will allow them recover from their financial sufferings over the last few decades. That means that government expenditures must first be covered by the assets seized from the super-rich in accord with federal law for their criminal actions. Compensation for the damages suffered by citizens in the wars of the last 25 years, and for the death and health issues resulting from lockdowns and fake vaccines must also be compensated for through the seizure of the assets of the corporations that planned these actions, and the banks that backed those policies.

I welcome a discussion about the concrete policies we as a nation can undertake to assure that taxation is constitutional and legal and that the money thus collected actually serves the people in accord with the Constitution through an accountable government. I do not claim to have full understanding of the issues and I welcome corrections to my statements here in accord with the scientific method.

For simplicity’s sake, I am omitting a discussion of whether income tax itself is constitutional, and whether we should base taxation on assets, rather than on income or consumption. That discussion, however, must also be a part of our larger debate as we start a serious discussion about how the republic known as the United States of America can be reestablished.

Most respectfully,

Emanuel Pastreich