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"Some people think income tax is illegal. It's pseudolaw, and it's damaging the legal system"

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dc.contributor.authorHobbs, H.
dc.contributor.authorMcIntyre, J.
dc.contributor.authorYoung, S.
dc.date.issued2023
dc.description.abstractJudges 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 and sounds kind of like something a lawyer might say. But it does not follow normal legal rules.
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/11541.2/36461
dc.language.isoen
dc.publisherThe Conversation
dc.rightsCopyright the author. This publication is available under a Creative Commons Attribution No Derivatives licence (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nd/4.0/)
dc.source.urihttps://theconversation.com/some-people-think-income-tax-is-illegal-its-pseudolaw-and-its-damaging-the-legal-system-214847
dc.subjectcourts
dc.subjectlegal system
dc.subjectMagna Carta
dc.subjectsovereign citizens
dc.subjectCOVID-19
dc.subjectpseudolaw
dc.title"Some people think income tax is illegal. It's pseudolaw, and it's damaging the legal system"
dc.typeWebsite
pubs.publication-statusPublished
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