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From: dee@cca.UUCP (Donald Eastlake)
Newsgroups: net.taxes
Subject: Re: Things IRS won't tell you #1
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Date: Sat, 20-Oct-84 17:38:22 EDT
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I have no problem with the theory that you don't really have to file
income tax returns (although I am not fully convinced).  I even once
knew someone who just didn't bother.  Eventually, the IRS assesed him
taxes and took them out of his bank account, where he kept a big enough
balance to cover them.  There was a lot of fuss and bother about this
the first time the IRS did it but then they just caught up for all the
missed years and started doing it regularly.  It was perfectly clear
that they guy could have saved himself a lot of money by doing his own
forms, as the IRS didn't do anything in the way of deductions or the
like except take the standard.  They also assesed a fee to cover the
costs of taking the money out of this guy's bank account each year.

Also, I don't see why filling out an income tax form is necessarily
incriminating.  You can certaily withold information on the source of
illegal income.
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	+	Donald E. Eastlake, III
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