Actually, from what I understand at least, if you owe back taxes and are able to pay, the IRS is happy to just take your money and put the matter to rest (with interest and penalties of course). They mostly care about the money. If you continue to evade taxes again and again or refuse to pay, then the courts get involved. But if you have the money to pay, they'll just take it. The problem being those people who evade taxes because they don't have the money and therefore don't have the money to pay the taxes plus fines. So yeah, in the end, the poor get hassled worse than the rich, but I think it is mostly because the poor can't pay the penalties, interest, etc.
On Wed, May 26, 2010 at 12:33 PM, Scott Stroz <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Wed, May 26, 2010 at 12:05 PM, Eric Roberts > <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> I would put him the top 10 of people who have bad accountants maybe... >> > > > Regardless of who prepared his taxes, he is still ultimately > responsible for the information contained in his return. > > I think there is a lot of tax evasion going on on both sides of the > aisle. But htey all know they can just say 'oopsie' and pay what they > owe. Imagine, if you will, how the IRS would act if it were you or I > that owed $34,000 in back taxes and penalties. > > > -- > Scott Stroz > --------------- > You can make things happen, you can watch things happen or you can > wonder what the f*&k happened. - Cpt. Phil Harris > > http://xkcd.com/386/ > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology-Michael-Dinowitz/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:319606 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/unsubscribe.cfm
