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To: Mrs. Don-o

I would like to think I would be given the grace.

But now, of course, not paying the fines is not an option. They’ll just take then unless I convert everything to gold and bury the gold.


38 posted on 04/03/2012 12:15:21 PM PDT by Mad Dawg (Si cum canibus magnis currere non potes, sta in portico.)
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To: Mad Dawg
I was wondering about that.

I undersrand that the IRS is going to be the enforcement/collection agency. If about 10 million ordinary people, well-prepared and well-versed in such things, got out of withholding somehow, and then invested a lot of energy in questionable, corner-cutting hiding, loop-holing, obscuring and off-shoring (like I guess rich people do)(or so I'm told), wouldn't that make enforcement and collections get all twisty-tailed around and effectively impede the IRS' abilty to carry out their mission? I'm told that just filing for extensions would shut down the IRS System, if a million people did it.

But I don't know about such things. Wouldn't it be worthwhile to turn the 10,000 page tax code to our own advantage via its labyrinthine built-in complexities?

Serious question from a seriously unknowledgeable person.

Enlighten me!

40 posted on 04/03/2012 12:30:36 PM PDT by Mrs. Don-o (QWERTY, ergo typo.)
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To: Mad Dawg
I was wondering about that.

I undersrand that the IRS is going to be the enforcement/collection agency. If about 10 million ordinary people, well-prepared and well-versed in such things, got out of withholding somehow, and then invested a lot of energy in questionable, corner-cutting hiding, loop-holing, obscuring and off-shoring (like I guess rich people do)(or so I'm told), wouldn't that make enforcement and collections get all twisty-tailed around and effectively impede the IRS' abilty to carry out their mission? I'm told that just filing for extensions would shut down the IRS System, if a million people did it.

But I don't know about such things. Wouldn't it be worthwhile to turn the 10,000 page tax code to our own advantage via its labyrinthine built-in complexities?

Serious question from a seriously unknowledgeable person.

Enlighten me!

41 posted on 04/03/2012 12:30:55 PM PDT by Mrs. Don-o (QWERTY, ergo typo.)
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