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I'd love to see the actual reasons these folks end up getting fined. The amount of lower income folks I've met who have claimed to have "written off" their vehi

• kelnos 4y ago
  I suspect these people are exaggerating, or are making up stories to make it sound like they "stuck it to the man". It's pretty trivial for the IRS to figure out that a vehicle fully deducted for business use is not actually being used for business use. I'm sure this is even the sort of thing that they have automated software to flag.
• digdugdirk 4y ago
  ... Is this a joke? Or do you actually believe that the IRS should prioritize their resources on catching poor people trying to skirt taxes on hourly work over wealthy people and corporations that use/abuse the system at the expense of the population of the planet?
  • pclmulqdq 4y ago
    How about both? Which is what happens, by the way. People with 7 digits on their tax return get audited a LOT. Low-income people get audited more than people with 6-figure incomes, but they also arguably have lower levels of tax compliance too. And I have no interest in incentivizing low-income people to cheat on taxes - that will just result in them voting for more taxes that they can cheat on and impose on the rest of us.