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What happens if I don't pay my taxes? Lots of annoying letters and then, eventually, maybe a court order plus fines etc. They don't demand money at gunpoint. A
by GiraffeNecktie 16y ago
What happens if I don't pay my taxes? Lots of annoying letters and then, eventually, maybe a court order plus fines etc.
They don't demand money at gunpoint. And they'll still send the firetrucks if my house is on fire. We're a little more civilized than that.
One of the reasons for universal fire service is to avoid the harm that comes when people try to do it on their own. You don't want random people - the homeowners, their kids or passersby - jumping in to fight a fire without the proper training, backup, and equipment.
- gaius 16y agoWell, for brevity's sake I missed out the bit where you ignored the court order etc :-)
- Semiapies 16y agoTry not paying the IRS a couple of years. Refuse to work with them when they try to work out a payment schedule with you. Don't pay any fines. Then, let us know how that goes, if they don't filter this site from federal prison. :)
- cullenking 16y agoI promise that if you don't pay your taxes and refuse any additional fines, people with guns will knock on your door.
- jules 16y agoUm, no. They will take your stuff and sell it. If you then try to use said stuff, men with guns may come for using someone else's stuff.
- GiraffeNecktie 16y agoMaybe where you live.
- Semiapies 16y agoWhere outside the US do you live?
- tomjen3 16y agoHint: the people who will arrive with the guns are police or possibly people who works for the IRS/your tax authorities.
- maxawaytoolong 16y agoNobody arrives with guns. That only happens when you are wanted for other crimes and the Feds are combining those charges with tax evasion. Tax evasion is also a different charge than simply being delinquent with your taxes.
- anigbrowl 16y agoPossibly, but first they'll file a tax lien, allowing them to garnish your wages or bank account etc., and make your credit record radioactive until it's lifted. If you've ignored a court summons, that might result in an arrest warrant providing for you to be taken into custody at a police stop. In general, you need to owe them quite a lot of money before they will go to the bother of looking for you, which is expensive and risky; it's a lot easier to just publicly flag you as a tax debtor. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tax_lien http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tax_lien
- anamax 16y ago> Possibly, but first they'll file a tax lien, allowing them to garnish your wages or bank account etc., and make your credit record radioactive until it's lifted. If you've ignored a court summons, that might result in an arrest warrant providing for you to be taken into custody at a police stop. Actually, what they do is evict you and sell "your" house. That's what happened to the previous owner of my house.
- Semiapies 16y agoAnd if the previous owner of your house had refused to leave before the final eviction date, police officers would have come to remove em.
- anigbrowl 16y agoYes, that could happen...after they're granted a lien on the property because of the amount owed. Getting evicted is one possible outcome among many, whereas a lien is pretty typical and often sufficient to recover what's owed.