If you work your taxes to where you get no refund, the fines just keep adding up, year after year, plus interest (3%). After a few years, you’re talking real money. Plus, you know they’ll tweak the law. Eventually they WILL get your money.
I had read here a couple weeks back, that the IRS will have the power to seize assets from your bank account, or garnish wages as they see fit.
Someone will know the article, I’ve had a few too many Single Malt Scotches to bother looking this stuff up.