Rats! City to Pay for Informing on Tax Cheats (Chicago)

NBC5 Chicago ^ | 10-27-09 | Andrew Greiner

[STARWISE]

You dirty rat.

Chicago and Cook County residents aren’t the only ones about to get shocking tax news; the city is debuting a “tax whistle-blower” plan that could turn neighbor against neighbor in Chicago’s business community.

The folks at city hall will pay cash bounties to informants who turn in business tax cheats around the city. The reward would amount to some sort of percentage of the tax money that the city recovers.

"It's just another way of bringing people into compliance," Revenue Department spokesman Ed Walsh told the Sun-Times.

"It would probably be ... a business knowing that a competitor is not remitting a tax.

[STARWISE]

Sure must've hurt to lose the Olympic billions, but this is beyond staggering.

[STARWISE]

[2banana]

Will they look into any Obama or Daley cronies???

[azishot]

Oh good grief....is this the same as the White House having that *snitch program* to report anyone who bad mouthed the so called *healthcare bill*?

Children, all of them.

[BookmanTheJanitor]

He's not from Chicago...but here's one.

[pnh102]

Shrug. People get what they voted for.

[jiggyboy]

I like the part about being able to deduct the cost of your own brown shirt if you are wearing it when you rat the guy out.

[earlJam]

Didn’t the left bash Bush for his proposal for citizens to report suspicous terrorist activity?

[The Enlightener]

Wait until they find out that 90% of the tax cheaters are Democrats, sticking it to the man. Oddly enough, Conservatives are the kind of people who are against tax increases, but will always comply with the law, while many of the liberals I know are for tax increases, but then refuse to pay them on the grounds that "everybody cheats."

I base this knowledge on my own debates with liberals who always tell me I should pay more taxes, and then freely admit that they own two homes and claim their place of residence in the lower tax jurisdiction, but register their cars in the one without the personal property tax. They further have two jobs, deduct all their nanny expenses as "daycare" costs(Oh, and they don't pay FICA or Medicare for them, because they are "daycare" and not employees). They deduct their home offices at 100% use even though they work in Washington DC and are never home.

And yet, it's the "rich" who need to pay more of "their fair share." :-(

[the_devils_advocate_666]

So you get a call and someone is looking for a friend of yours that owes on student loans. Would you give them your friends contact info? Well I did. Does that make me a bad person?

[annieokie]

Why does he need a TAN? just curious, he think hes white??

[Bluebeard16]

Wonder what would happen if you turned in those companies employing illegals. An IRS audit would turn that up pretty quick wouldn’t it?

[STARWISE]

Perfect, bold faced hypocrites, aren't they ?

[maggief]

Maybe this guy?

[CottShop]

[[Chicago and Cook County residents aren’t the only ones about to get shocking tax news; the city is debuting a “tax whistle-blower” plan that could turn neighbor against neighbor in Chicago’s business community.]]

Isn’t that just special? Not so long ago- people who didn’t mind hteir own business risked being shot for putting hteir noses where they didn’t belong- now, we’re apparently moving toward a communist style lifestyle where neighbor rats on neighbor- hoping to be rewarded by the government for being a good little citizen- Poland and other countries just released millions of documents during communism where NOONE was who they seemed- friends turned on friends, brothers turned on brothers- ‘Close’ friends learned their buddy was reporting to the Kremlin on them the whole time- and apparently, that’s exactly what we’re headed for- These frigging democrats think comunism is such a wodnerful system, but ask ANYONE who went through the experience in Russia, Germany, Poland etc just how ‘wonderful’ it really was- It stunk to high heaven! But alas- the dems are horny to lord it over EVERYONE

[bmwcyle]

Send the mayor’s office workers names.

[alexander_busek]

So you get a call and someone is looking for a friend of yours that owes on student loans. Would you give them your friends contact info? Well I did. Does that make me a bad person?

How did that "someone" prove to you, on the phone, that he was, indeed, an authorized agent of the alleged creditors?

Did he flash a badge, or what?

What special information, unavailable to that alleged authorized agent via, say, the Internet, did you provide?

Why did you provide it?

Regards,

[beandog]

I sure wouldn’t, “friend” or not. You’ll have to decide for yourself if you’re a bad person. Certainly not a good friend.

[dfwgator]

I know of one in the Treasury Department.

[the_devils_advocate_666]

You have to give references on you student loan apps that are friends/family for just this purpose. I’m sure it’s their first line of defense when they lose contact with someone. Whey did I trust the inquirer, mostly because I’m a trusting person and I wasn’t giving out any information other than and address and/or a phone number (it’s been a while). Why? Because I’m an honest person and believe others should be, too. They took out the loan, they weren’t in any sort of hardship, so they should be paying back the money as they agreed.