Re: The government refuses to answer a simple yes or no question.

Dale Eastman wrote:

> Brian Rookard wrote:
> > Dale Eastman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
> >
> >>Richard Macdonald wrote:
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>>>1) Should I use the rules found in 26 USC § 861(b) and 26 CFR § 1.861-8
> >>>>(in addition to any other pertinent sections) to determine my taxable
> >>>>domestic income?
> >>>>
> >>>>Was that a yes, or a no?
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>Such questions cannot be properly answered as yes/no.
> >>
> >>Either a taxpayer uses those sections or they don't.
> >>Sure looks like yes or no WILL properly answer that particular question.
> >>
> >>
> >
> >
> > Describe the taxpayer (where does he live, where does he earn his
> > income, etc.) ...
>
> Obviously everybody posting on the pro 861 side of the arguments must be
> foreign nationals. Malloy and Rubin from California, Maffia from
> Washington state, Evans from Pennsylvania, Shockly from Mississippi,
> Myself from Wisconsin.... Yep, Foreign nationals all.
>
> And of course the part of the question that tells us nothing what so
> ever about the income, "to determine my taxable domestic income?"

Define "taxable domestic income".  It doesn't appear in the law or
regulations.  (I'm afraid I missed that the last time I answered the
first two questions.)