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The IRS is looking for "big fish" who cheat big-time.
The IRS is not likely to spend much time following up on the guy who doesn't declare a hundred bucks proceeds from a garage sale.
I was not too long out of college and I got a job working for a local company temporarily. When it came tax time I asked them when I could expect my W2 because it was late (I filled out a W4 earlier in the year I had worked for them for a few months). They said they were not going to provide one because they decided I was an independent contractor. So then I asked for a 1099. Several times. They never provided one of those either. I was so concerned that I would get in trouble with the IRS that I called the IRS and told them the whole story and ask what to do. I think I got that company in trouble.
My intent was to cover my own rear end. Not to snitch for the sake of snitching.
It is not my place to mess with another person's life. If they were a killer or robber, sure, but I am not going to stoop so low as to turn in someone who doesn't pay a few bucks owed on taxes. Not my circus, not my monkey.
After all, when our President doesn't pay a penny in taxes because he is "smart", why should someone who pays some, but not all, of their taxes be taken to task ?
The IRS will get them eventually. No need to waste my own time.
Tax evasion seems to be the one crime people can't get away with. Kingpins like Capone and Cohen dabbled in gambling, prostitution, bootlegging, murder...you name it. Yet the only time they spent in prison was due to felony tax evasion charges.
[quote=Heterojunction;49433958]The IRS will get them eventually. No need to waste my own time.
Tax evasion seems to be the one crime people can't get away with. Kingpins like Capone and Cohen dabbled in gambling, prostitution, bootlegging, murder...you name it. Yet the only time they spent in prison was due to felony tax evasion charges.[/quote]
Rather funny isn't it? Murder, bootlegging, etc. and the government gets him for tax evasion.
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