Property Taxes
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Are They Constitutional?

Where does the Federal Government get its Authority?

Where does the State Government get its Authority?

Where does the County Government get it's Authority?

Can any Government lawfully collect Property Taxes?







Where do Governments get their Authority?
    Have you ever considered this question? It is most certainly one we should know the answer to. Governments have only one source from which to derive authority or power to do anything:

From the People.

        The United States government and the Texas government were established for one primary purpose, to secure the blessings of liberty to the People. They were established by the God given authority of the People. They were to exist to serve the People .
        One well established maxim of law is that one can only delegate authority that one possesses. Thus, the government can only possess authority lawfully given to it by the People who lawfully have it.
        Does any one of the People have the authority or right to impose a tax upon the private property of another? The answer is simply NO. Therefore, if the People do not have the right to tax each other's property, they could not have delegated the power to tax private property to the Government. And in fact they did not.
        The first property tax in Texas was imposed by law by the Legislature of the Republic of Texas in 1841. A law was passed allowing the taxing of property owned by BANKERS .
        Our research shows, to date, that this law has never been repealed or changed. Only the wording has changed in subsequent publications of the law to say "that property that is subject to tax". This simply means "Bankers property".
        The whole secret to how property taxes are levied and imposed on People's property today is very simple. Property owned by the People is not considered to be Private Property. It is not listed on the tax rolls or recorded with the county as Private Property.
        In fact, all property recorded with the County Recorder's Office is not even listed in the name of the one who thinks they own it. It is listed under a Legal Fiction for which the supposed owner is presumed to be a surety or fiction. (See our brochure on "The Current Judicial System and Fictions at Law")

What is an Ad Valorem Tax?

According to Blacks Law Dictionary, Ad Valorem tax is a tax imposed on the value of property or article of commerce in proportion to its value.
Is your home involved in Commerce? No it is not. How does it get into commercial taxation? By being listed as Real Estate or Agricultural property under the ownership of a Legal Fiction.
The most astonishing fact about the collection of property taxes in Texas today is that the Constitution was amended in 1982 to abolish Ad Valorem taxes on Property. The Texas Constitution Article 8 Section 1-e states: "No State Ad Valorem taxes shall be levied upon any property within this State." (Amended November 2, 1982.)
So where do Counties and other entities get the authority to impose and collect Ad
Valorem taxes on the property of the People?
This is a question that you might want to ask someone in you local taxing office.

There is no lawful authority for Ad Valorem Taxes in Texas.

Since Counties and Municipalities are political subdivisions of the State, and the State, according to the Constitution, does not have the authority to levy Ad Valorem taxes on ANY property in Texas, from what source is the County's authority derived?
The answer is quite simple. They do not have the authority. The taxing scheme is a fraud and it is extortion being perpetrated upon the People of Texas to fatten the coffers of the State and the pockets of its Officials.
Recently, Governor Bush has been talking about reducing property taxes because of the "surplus" of taxes collected. Why "reduce" a tax that is clearly unlawful and unconstitutional? Why not eliminate it entirely?
Another important fact for everyone to know is that they are talking about the surplus being in the area of 6 Billion dollars. This is only the tip of the iceberg of the real surplus.
According to the 1998 Comprehensive Annual Financial Report (available from the office of the Secretary of State) Texas had a surplus of 1.6 Trillion dollars!
There is something seriously wrong when the government has imposed taxes that take over half of the substance of the People for their own purposes and return only a small portion in services to the People.

This brochure is prepared and distributed by the People of the Republic of Texas.
We are committed to restoring truth, freedom, and justice to our land.

We want to restore the government to a lawful body that does the one thing a government of a free people is supposed to do. That is to protect the liberties of the People.
When any system of law or government is perverted from this purpose into one of violating the liberties of the People, it becomes a system of legalized plunder.
We want the plundering of the People to stop! We desire freedom for ALL the People of Texas, not just ourselves. In short, we want to be free as our forefathers intended and indeed died for.
We have been called "anti-government". This is patently false. We know the People need representatives to perform certain functions to guarantee their liberty, and that is all we want. A government that operates within its delegated boundaries and the law the People set forth.
 
 

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Form Brochure-08 Rev. 7/23/01