U.S. laws support the collection of income tax, despite claims otherwise

A social media post that claims U.S. laws don’t support the collection of income tax makes its case using debunked information and features speakers who’ve been convicted of federal tax crimes.

"To date, nobody has been able to show that there is a law for the average American citizen working day in and day out to pay an income tax," says a person identified as Tom Selgas, in a TikTok video shared July 15 as a reel on Facebook. Selgas was convicted by a federal court in 2020 of income tax evasion. READ MORE