Q, my first question responded to your hypothetical ("if"). In your hypothetical, how does one properly, lawfully, and efficiently get back the unapplied cash bonds or the overpayments? (My answer: demand a refund.)
But my hypothetical, as you call it, contained the answer to that question (claim the payments as estimated tax payments). I naturally assumed you must have meant something else.
My second question was my own hypothetical ("when"), but I neglected to limit it to nonwage payments only. Why would it not be a withholding agreement of any kind when (or if) one agrees, as a work condition, that part of one's nonwage pay will be withheld (ostensibly for diversion to the IRS)? (My answer: it's an agreement.)
Your statement did not set up a hypothetical situation. It was in direct response to my statement that CTC filers have not entered into withholding agreements. Anyone can check that by looking at the previous posts.
...you switch tracks again by dealing only with the case where "an employer/employee relationship existed"
No, I stayed the track I started on, CTC returns. All CTC filers work for someone who thinks he is the CTC filer's employer. He is, therefore, working within the context of a perceived employer/employee relationship. He would, therefore, have no reason to require his employee to agree to tax withholding as a condition of employment. From the payor's perspective, the employee cannot disagree with withholding, so an agreement would be moot. It would make more sense to make breathing a condition of employment. That is something over which the employee has a choice.
So the third question is: if an employer/employee relationship does not exist between a withholding workplace payor and a worker payee, what would make withholding mandatory or exclude it from the worker's power to disagree?
Nothing, assuming the original agreement under which the payor became a withholding workplace payor allowed for modification.
Then I demonstrated CtC returns are neither incomplete nor contradictory ...
No you didn't. They are contradictory, as I have already established. CTC filers claim to have received no wages, but to have had income tax withheld from their wages. None of your blather about, as you now admit, purely hypothetical voluntary withholding agreements addresses that contradiction.
With Quixote, I've been getting mixed results, but primarily because he (characteristically) refuses to answer questions straight.
All my answers are perfectly straight. I occassionally erred by assuming you intended to ask a relevant question. Concentrate on getting a handle on reality. Leave the hypothetical questions alone.
Or perhaps you can be the first to show why espousing CtC would not be upholding the law (after it has been ruled three times as unsanctionable)?
Too late for that. PH lost his erroneous refund case because the DOJ showed the judge why espousing CtC would not be upholding the law. Maybe you could do what PH has yet to do, justify CTC as something other than a tax evasion scheme.
"Here is a fundamental question to ask yourself- what is the goal of the income tax scam? I think it is a means to extract wealth from the masses and give it to a parasite class." Skankbeat