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What? You have to demonstrate financial hardship or risk getting convicted.
by nzeid 8mo ago
What? You have to demonstrate financial hardship or risk getting convicted.
- mothballed 8mo agoThe people that get convicted seems to be either rich people blatantly evading taxes or people that write entire books about not paying taxes. Last I looked at the data for a normal person to get convicted just for running late on payments you basically have to tell the IRS to go fuck themselves and then brag about it publicly and stir up enough people they have to make an example out of you so no one else gets ideas. I'm sure there's odd other examples but they seem to be rare. By and large the IRS wants to squeeze you for what they can get, not burn up a bunch of public resources convicting people and hindering their ability to earn more money for the IRS.
- cylemons 8mo agoThey don't fine people for late payment?
- monster_truck 8mo agoLike they said, you have to be _blatant_ to get rung up. There are any number of life events you could use as reasonable cause to avoid the fines entirely and get a favorible payment plan.
- mothballed 8mo agoWas thinking of criminal convictions in relation to "convicted", not fines
- monster_truck 8mo agoNo, no you do not. If and when they finally realize it's been 12 years since you've filed, you might finally get that letter one day. Good odds they're gonna be extremely wrong about what you owe. Let them be