Okay, here’s the rest of the story: the company that hired me for the mural paid me with one of their own payroll checks. So the IRS assumed that I was one of their employees. When I filed my taxes, I filed it as an independent contractor. And that one little error led the IRS to assume that half of what I made belonged to them.
Even with gestapo IRS, that does not compute.
Care for an opportunity to re-phrase the original statement?