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Interestingly - my experience, on innocent mistakes, has been varied. I got hammered owing 6 or 8 hundred dollars for a $200 mistake when I was 10 years old an
by nmcfarl 14y ago
Interestingly - my experience, on innocent mistakes, has been varied.
I got hammered owing 6 or 8 hundred dollars for a $200 mistake when I was 10 years old and making money off of my paper route. (No, my parents didn't cover the bill nor do my taxes.)
And I made $10,000 mistake five years ago and they said "Oh - whoops, pay your bill and be more careful next time" and then called it a day.
- crazy1van 14y agoWe've become a nation of men instead of a nation of laws.
- nmcfarl 14y agoThat is a reasonable conclusion to draw. But not the one I draw. However there were 20 years between the 2 events. And the first was found because of an audit, while the second I found and reported within a few months of filing. There’s a lot going on here. The lesson I draw is: different circumstances different results. But both good and bad results are possible, for fairly similar inputs into the process.
- smcl 14y ago> the first was found because of an audit The IRS audited a 10 year old?
- maxerickson 14y agoIf it became known that they wouldn't audit a 10 year old, bad actors would certainly exploit it.
- nmcfarl 14y agoThat they did. I assume it’s for the reason that maxerickson stated. These where some /really/ simple taxes. Other than the huge (for me) fine, it was a fairly painless experience. My parents did handle it - but even for them other than the stress of knowing it was happening, I think it involved not too much work for them, and as far as they where concerned had not too bad an outcome. I do suspect my parents double-checked my filings from then on a lot more closely than they had before.
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