Is IRS Targeting Drunkards?
In my mind, if you are going to have a social club or a fraternal organization (501(c)(8)) or a trade organization (501(c)(6) that is not being run to make a profit, then run it to roughly break-even and if there is a small profit, pay some taxes. It won’t kill you. Limit the exemption process to the 501(c)(3) organizations.
No Exclusion For Income Earned Over International Waters
While this regulation does not speak directly to the treatment of income earned over international waters, a separate regulation defines the term “foreign country” to mean “any territory under the sovereignty of a government other than that of the United States,” including, among other things, “the territorial waters of the foreign country” and “the air space over the foreign country.”
The regulation thus makes explicit that income earned over waters not subject to any foreign country’s jurisdiction would not be income earned “in a foreign country or countries” for purposes of Section 1.911-3(a). In sum, it is clear that Appellants’ position in this case is completely at odds with IRS’s regulations.
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Over and over again courts have said that there is nothing sinister in so arranging one’s affairs as to keep taxes as low as possible. Everybody does so, rich or poor; and all do right, for nobody owes any public duty to pay more than the law demands: taxes are enforced exactions, not voluntary contributions. To demand more in the name of morals is mere cant.