I think there's more nuance than that to it. I've made mistakes on my taxes, not been charged with a crime. Small oops mistakes, I've never heard of someone b

I think there's more nuance than that to it. I've made mistakes on my taxes, not been charged with a crime. Small oops mistakes, I've never heard of someone being charged criminally. BIG "yeah that was intentional" kinda obvious under-reporting of income, that turns into charges at times. I actually had a big misunderstanding in terms of amounts once where the IRS thought I cashed out a large 401k. They simply sent me a letter and we mailed back and forth and I showed them that in fact I didn't cash it out and it just moved and it was all good.