Ramsden v. Commissioner

1978 T.C. Memo. 158, 37 T.C.M. 695, 1978 Tax Ct. Memo LEXIS 358
CourtUnited States Tax Court
DecidedApril 24, 1978
DocketDocket No. 1111-77.
StatusUnpublished

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Ramsden v. Commissioner, 1978 T.C. Memo. 158, 37 T.C.M. 695, 1978 Tax Ct. Memo LEXIS 358 (tax 1978).

Opinion

JAMES E. RAMSDEN, Petitioner v. COMMISSIONER OF INTERNAL REVENUE, Respondent
Ramsden v. Commissioner
Docket No. 1111-77.
United States Tax Court
T.C. Memo 1978-158; 1978 Tax Ct. Memo LEXIS 358; 37 T.C.M. (CCH) 695; T.C.M. (RIA) 780158;
April 24, 1978, Filed
James E. Ramsden, pro se.
Scott R. Cox, for respondent.

SCOTT

MEMORANDUM OPINION

SCOTT, Judge: This case is before us on respondent's Motion for Summary Judgment which was filed in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, on March 29, 1978, when the case was called for trial. There is no dispute between the parties as to any material issue or fact.

Respondent determined a deficiency in petitioner's income tax for the calendar year 1974 in the amount of $1,722.05 and additions to tax under sections 6651(a)(1), 6653(a) and 6654, I.R.C. 1954, 1*359 in the amounts of $43.51, $86.10 and $55.10, respectively.

Petitioner, an individual who resided in Hager City, Wisconsin, at the time the petition in this case was filed, on or about April 15, 1975, filed with the Internal Revenue Service a document on Form 1040 for 1974 showing his name, address, social security number, and number of exemptions as 1. The only other statements appearing on this Form 1040 were the words "Object - Fifth Amendment" or similar words written in the spaces provided for reporting income and claiming deductions. Attached to the Form 1040 filed by petitioner was a document entitled "Petition and Protest" asserting rights which petitioner claimed under the First, Fourth, Fifth, Sixth, Ninth and Fourteenth Amendments and provisions of the Administrative Procedures Act. Attached to the document labeled "Petition and Protest" were copies of various excerpts from the United States Constitution, copies of statutes and various court decisions, as well as copies of pages from certain textbooks and newspaper or magazine articles.

Respondent, in his notice of deficiency, determined*360 that petitioner during the calendar year 1974 received $7,950 in commissions income from Feldman Insurance Agency. On this basis, respondent computed petitioner's income and selfemployment tax. Respondent stated as the basis of his determination of an addition to tax under section 6651(a)(1) that no return had been filed by petitioner and as a basis for the addition to tax under section 6653(a) that a part of the underpayment was due to negligence or intentional disregard of rules and regulations by petitioner. Respondent computed the addition to tax under section 6654(a) for underpayment of estimated tax on the basis of one-quarter of the tax as computed by respondent being due on each April 15, 1974, June 15, 1974, September 15, 1974, and January 15, 1975.

Petitioner in his petition filed with this Court assigned as errors:

(1) The unconstitutionality of this Court since it was not created under Article III of the Constitution;

(2) the unconstitutionality of placing the burden of proof on petitioner;

(3) petitioner's constitutional right to a jury trial;

(4) that bank notes not redeemable in gold and silver coin are not dollars or money;

(5) that the deficiency is*361 null and void because its determination violates petitioner's rights to due process and rights against selfincrimination under the Fifth Amendment of the Constitution;

(6) that respondent erred in determining a deficiency without a full factual basis;

(7) that the method of the determination by respondent and the imposition of "fines and penalties" amounts to a Bill of Attainder and extortion, and is an unconstitutional procedure; and

(8) that petitioner had been denied his right to petition representatives of the Government in violation of his rights under the First Amendment to the Constitution.

The facts which petitioner alleges in support of his assignments of error are merely restatements of the assignments in somewhat different language except that petitioner did allege that he filed an income tax return for the year 1974.

All of the issues raised by petitioner in this case have been disposed of contrary to his contentions by this Court and other courts in numerous cases.

In Burns, Stix Friedman & Co. v. Commissioner,57 T.C. 392 (1971)

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