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Some people think income tax is illegal. It’s pseudolaw, and it’s damaging the l…

Some people think income tax is illegal. It’s pseudolaw, and it’s damaging the l…

Judges have described it as “gibberish”, “obvious nonsense”, “largely incoherent, if not incomprehensible” and “gobbledygook”. It involves grand claims like “Magna Carta means you do not need to pay your mortgage”, or “the introduction of decimal currency means income tax is illegal”. It’s the strange and growing phenomenon of pseudolaw. Pseudolaw looks a bit like law. It uses legal texts …

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