Voluntary Tax Avoidance Re: They gave their lives....

[John D. Giorgis]

At 05:03 PM 6/1/01 +0200 Sonja van Baardwijk-Holten wrote:
>I remember reading somewhere that if you give up your right to social
>security and social benifits you can get exempted from income taxes. Or
>something along those lines. I think it was on some financial advisory
>colum from ABC news somewhere. But it's been rather a while since I read
>it and I'm not sure of the context it was explained in nor of the criteria
>under which it could be applied.

This is actually a myth propogated by the far-right fringe of our country.
 They like to think that there is justification for not paying taxes by
avoiding social services.  As it is, there is no statutory basis for this
myth, and failure to pay taxes for any reason can very likely produce a
visit from the IRS, and eventually jail time.

JDG
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