If I'm not mistaken, being involved in illegal activity doesn't absolve you from paying income taxes, I believe that the authorities are not able to take action based on a claim on an income tax form..
I could be worng... -- Scott Stewart ColdFusion Developer 4405 Oakshyre Way Raleigh, NC 27616 (h) 919.874.6229 (c) 703.220.2835 -----Original Message----- From: Scott Stroz [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Thursday, September 17, 2009 9:15 AM To: cf-community Subject: Re: So how you all gonna defend ACORN now? Do you really think that someone who is a prostitute, where prostitution is illegal, is really going to be filing a tax return? On Thu, Sep 17, 2009 at 1:11 AM, Dana <[email protected]> wrote: > > haven't found a code of ethics yet, but, an incidental find -- if you start > from ok this person has income she has to report and she is not an employee, > yet she performs services for her income, then she *is* a business. Look at > http://www.irs.gov/pub/irs-pdf/i1040sc.pdf . They are making a big deal out > of the tax preparer trying to determine which code from the table starting > on C-9 they should use. I mean, Sam, Bruce, which one would *you* use? > > > > > On Wed, Sep 16, 2009 at 10:55 PM, Dana <[email protected]> wrote: > >> actually, if you look at the video, the supposed prostitute said eight >> grand a month and the ACORN worker repeated eight hundred. So it may not be >> a math error it may be seeing what she is expecting to see. I don't know >> where ACORN is in Baltimore but I am willing to bet that this lady sees >> four-figure incomes a lot more than five. If so that explains why she gives >> them a discount later because they are low-income. I still don't know how >> she expected to get her into a mortgage on that though... >> >> >> On Wed, Sep 16, 2009 at 10:36 PM, Dana <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> I worked in a voter registration effort in another state entirely for >>> about a week and a half ;) nothing to do with mortgage counseling. Then I >>> quit because I didn't like the canned "rap" they wanted me to use and became >>> a volunteer at the Kerry campaign. But that's beside the point. >>> >>> "This kind of thing" may not even be happening. So far we have a tax lady >>> who should have used a calculator and was willing to ignore illegality. I am >>> wondering if ethically tax preparers are supposed to do that. If yor clients >>> are supposed to report their income.....I can see why ACORN would choose not >>> to if so, simply because it *is* being investigated to death, but.....I >>> can't quite tell from what Google is giving me so I am looking on the IRS >>> site. >>> >>> I think we are still shading into advice on money laundering tho... and >>> it's hard to know what to make of the discussion on the girls. >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> On Wed, Sep 16, 2009 at 10:26 PM, Sam <[email protected]> wrote: >>> >>>> >>>> Funny. >>>> >>>> If you work in a place that gives advice to people you need training, >>>> some ground rules and may sit in with someone else to get an idea of >>>> what's acceptable and what's not. If you worked at a place and didn't >>>> know this type of thing was happening you weren't doing a good job. >>>> >>>> Not the same as asking the co-worker at McDonalds if he's an axe >>>> murder on weekends. >>>> >>>> >>>> On Wed, Sep 16, 2009 at 9:09 PM, Dana <[email protected]> wrote: >>>> > >>>> > wait wait I don't know if I should be talking to you. You never got >>>> back to >>>> > me on your status as a trafficker in underage sex workers. >>>> > >>>> >>>> > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Want to reach the ColdFusion community with something they want? Let them know on the House of Fusion mailing lists Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:304349 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.5
