Movement advocating fraudulent tax resistance and debt elimination schemes
For the Reconstruction-era political coalition in the United States, see Redeemers.
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The redemption movement is an element of the pseudolaw movement, mainly active in the United States and Canada, that promotes fraudulent debt and tax payment schemes.[1] The movement is also called redemptionism.[2] Redemption promoters allege that a secret fund is created for every citizen at birth and that a procedure exists to "redeem" or reclaim this fund to pay bills. Common redemption schemes include acceptance for value (A4V), Treasury Direct Accounts (TDA) and secured party creditor "kits," collections of pseudolegal tactics sold to participants despite a complete lack of any actual legal basis. Such tactics are sometimes called "money for nothing" schemes, as they propose to extract money from the government by using secret methods.[3] The name of the A4V scheme in particular has become synonymous with the movement as a whole.[4][1]
Although the movement has maintained a following since the 1990s, its theories are false and meritless. Those who participate in redemption schemes, and especially those who promote them to other people, can face criminal charges and imprisonment. Several government institutions, including the FBI,[5] have issued warnings about the fraudulent character of redemption schemes.
The ideas of the redemption movement should not be confused with the actual legal right of redemption, under which a debtor may buy back property that has been levied or foreclosed, either by paying the balance of the debt or by matching the price at which the property sells.[6][7]
The redemption movement overlaps with the sovereign citizen movement, with several influential sovereign citizens promoting redemption schemes and ideas.[8] Part of its concepts were also adopted by the Canadian-born freeman on the land movement and by various other pseudolaw "gurus", movements and litigants.[9]
^ abMeads v. Meads, 2012 ABQB 571, ¶ 529 et seq..
^Hodge, Edwin (26 November 2019). "The Sovereign Ascendant: Financial Collapse, Status Anxiety, and the Rebirth of the Sovereign Citizen Movement". Frontiers in Sociology. 4: 76. doi:10.3389/fsoc.2019.00076. PMC 8022456. PMID 33869398.
^Netolitzky, Donald (2018). "A Rebellion of Furious Paper: Pseudolaw As a Revolutionary Legal System". SSRN Electronic Journal. doi:10.2139/ssrn.3177484. ISSN 1556-5068. SSRN 3177484.
^Netolitzky, Donald J. (2018). "Organized Pseudolegal Commercial Arguments as Magic and Ceremony". Alberta Law Review: 1045. doi:10.29173/alr2485. ISSN 1925-8356. S2CID 158051933. Retrieved 18 November 2022.
^"Common Fraud Schemes". fbi.gov. Federal Bureau of Investigation. Archived from the original on 2016-12-20. Retrieved 2010-09-22.
^26 U.S.C. § 6337 (Redemption of property)
^Real Estate Principles. Rockwell Publishing Company. 2006. p. 276.
^Sovereign Citizen Movement, Anti-Defamation league, retrieved 2022-01-23
^Netolitzky, Donald J. (3 May 2018). "A Pathogen Astride the Minds of Men: The Epidemiological History of Pseudolaw". Centre d’expertise et de formation sur les intégrismes religieux et la radicalisation (CEFIR). SSRN 3177472. Retrieved January 24, 2022. {{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires |journal= (help).
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