[libstripper]

When your income jumps extraordinarily in any year it is mightly to your advantage to pay the extra tax on time, use a paper return, and keep an exact copy. The whole goal is to make sure the only thing you get burned for is the huge tax on that year's income, and nothing else.

[MplsSteve]

Well put.

From what it sounds like (from other posters), not paying taxes from his Survivor winnings was only the tip of the iceberg.