• Lung@lemmy.world
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      2 months ago

      Old meme, but (1) you don’t go to prison for making a mistake on your taxes in America — you have to do a big fraud (2) no, the government doesn’t always know how much you owe, they only know stuff like domestic W2s and what banks file. There is a huge amount of ways to make income outside of that

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        I’m guessing 50% of individuals would be covered by just those 2 methods. Other methods would quickly follow once people realize how the rest of the world does not cater to crazy and the ones they can legally bribe (“lobby”).

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      Our captured Gov’t: You go to prison…unless you’re very wealthy of course, this is America after all.

      Then we’re happy to negotiate, settle, reduce, and otherwise facilitate your repayment in a way that’s convenient for you and your tax litigation team, sir!

    • BrianTheeBiscuiteer@lemmy.world
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      Step in the right direction either way. Hopefully this means they’ll be capturing metrics on which parts of the process are the most complicated and improve those areas.