Adele Weiss is the founder of Weiss+Associates, a firm based in the Paris/Laguna Beach area that provides educational resources and client services focused on federal income taxation. He holds a master’s degree in constitutional tax law and has spent over 25 years researching the Internal Revenue Code. Weiss emphasizes the distinction between the constitutional United States (the 50 states) and the statutory United States (primarily the District of Columbia and territories), arguing that many Americans born in the states qualify as “Nonresident Alien Individuals” or “American Nationals” who are not automatically subject to the federal income tax regime unless they voluntarily elect to participate. His materials and services guide clients on revoking such elections, responding to IRS notices, protecting assets through international structures, and asserting jurisdictional limits based on statutes, regulations, and Supreme Court precedents such as Pollock v. Farmers’ Loan & Trust Co. (1895) and Long v. Rasmussen (1922). The firm’s website (weissparis.com) serves as the main repository for these resources, including explanations of “jurisdiction as the key,” nonresident status, and practical steps for those facing tax enforcement.
From a liberty-oriented perspective, particularly one aligned the principles of individual sovereignty and voluntary association, Weiss’s work highlights themes of consent, fighting government power, and protection against overreach. His repeated emphasis that “the citizen must keep the Government from falling into error” and that sovereignty resides in the people echoes broader critiques of state coercion and the non-consensual nature of much taxation. While his specific legal strategies operate within the existing constitutional and statutory framework rather than rejecting the state outright, they contribute to discussions of personal autonomy and resistance to uninvited authority that resonate with explorations of liberty.
