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I've heard that in Canada you can get a tax lawyer to help you pay taxes on your illegal income. You get a special number to pay with and have the laywer handle

I've heard that in Canada you can get a tax lawyer to help you pay taxes on your illegal income. You get a special number to pay with and have the laywer handle it. The CRA would rather have the money than not and it means if you ever get caught you won't go down for tax evasion because you can show that you paid taxes using an anonymous number.

arcticbull 5y ago
It's not even about having the money or not - they'd get it in the end anyways if you were caught - it's about having a second vector to convict you. It's often easier to prove tax fraud than the actual crimes. They're setting you up for the ol' Al Capone treatment. I would argue they don't want you to pay so they have this option, however they're generally required by law to make it possible for you to pay without incriminating yourself so that it was legal for them to prosecute you for not doing so.
- belltaco 5y ago
  >It's not even about having the money or not - they'd get it in the end anyways if you were caught - it's about having a second vector to convict you. Convicting someone of a crime is expensive, and police and prosecutor resources are scarce. In many cases it's not cost effective to catch and prosecute people. There are also soft crimes like independent escorting where the government would appreciate the tax revenue rather than try to prosecute every violation of law.
  - arcticbull 5y ago
    This report would indicate otherwise in re: narcotics tax stamps. [1] > Almost no dealers actually [anonymously purchase narcotics tax stamps], nor does [then-NYS governor] Mr. Spitzer expect them to. The vast majority of revenues from the tax are collected after law enforcement officials seize the drugs, said Kimberly Y. Brooks, a spokeswoman for the North Carolina Department of Revenue. > “It’s really about cutting the drug dealers off at the knees,” said Ms. Smith of the tax administrators group. “It kind of goes back to the Al Capone model.” Proving tax avoidance is much easier than proving a drug crime, she said, so the tax laws help the authorities keep seized drug money even when a suspect accused of dealing drugs goes free. [1] https://www.nytimes.com/2008/01/24/nyregion/24drugs.html https://www.nytimes.com/2008/01/24/nyregion/24drugs.html

arcticbull 5y ago

It's not even about having the money or not - they'd get it in the end anyways if you were caught - it's about having a second vector to convict you. It's often easier to prove tax fraud than the actual crimes. They're setting you up for the ol' Al Capone treatment. I would argue they don't want you to pay so they have this option, however they're generally required by law to make it possible for you to pay without incriminating yourself so that it was legal for them to prosecute you for not doing so.

belltaco 5y ago
>It's not even about having the money or not - they'd get it in the end anyways if you were caught - it's about having a second vector to convict you. Convicting someone of a crime is expensive, and police and prosecutor resources are scarce. In many cases it's not cost effective to catch and prosecute people. There are also soft crimes like independent escorting where the government would appreciate the tax revenue rather than try to prosecute every violation of law.
- arcticbull 5y ago
  This report would indicate otherwise in re: narcotics tax stamps. [1] > Almost no dealers actually [anonymously purchase narcotics tax stamps], nor does [then-NYS governor] Mr. Spitzer expect them to. The vast majority of revenues from the tax are collected after law enforcement officials seize the drugs, said Kimberly Y. Brooks, a spokeswoman for the North Carolina Department of Revenue. > “It’s really about cutting the drug dealers off at the knees,” said Ms. Smith of the tax administrators group. “It kind of goes back to the Al Capone model.” Proving tax avoidance is much easier than proving a drug crime, she said, so the tax laws help the authorities keep seized drug money even when a suspect accused of dealing drugs goes free. [1] https://www.nytimes.com/2008/01/24/nyregion/24drugs.html https://www.nytimes.com/2008/01/24/nyregion/24drugs.html