57 points

If I were an IRS agent, I’d just hang out on these forums and start sending people catfishing messages.

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An IRS agent like you will lose your job on Jan 20

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10 points

I know, but they’ve had so much time to do it.

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5 points

There’ll be plenty of work for IRS agents in running punitive audits of people and companies in the Emperor’s disfavour.

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Well that does fit that petty tyrant attitude.

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3 points

Getting people to pay the taxes they owe as members of society is so tyrannical, isn’t it? Clearly the non-tyrannical thing would be to let people just get away with being leeches.

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Yeah sure, work worry about your feelings rather then do their actual job. Seems petty and tyrannical to me. Maybe, I dunno collect taxes instead of trolling assholes or something you know… Worthwhile.

Still waiting on that ban explanation btw bud.

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3 points

The problem is that these people have no way to pay their back taxes except rusted out old trucks and dilapidated huts. Then our billionaire overlords get away with murder even more despite actually having the resources to pay for their shit since it’s another is agent not working the big, difficult case.

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2 points

That’s simply not true. Most SovCits are not impoverished like that. If they were, they wouldn’t spend thousands of dollars to find the cheat code out of paying child support.

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1 point

Source.

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18 points

Sometimes I give them silly advice. Not anything that would actually cause a problem, but just saying they need to find a certain stamp for the document to be valid or whatever.

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146 points

If you’re rich, this is good and noble accounting. If you’re poor, this is tax evasion.

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4 points

Since the business finances are separate from the individuals/family they would have to pay the business with their personal funds, basically just paying taxes on all of their income twice.

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1 point

The rich definitely do not do that

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48 points

You have to have enough income and deductible expenditures to where your itemized deductions would be greater than the standard deduction of $24K, which will not be the case for the overwhelming majority of people

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16 points

Even so. Doing well for themselves middle class American: tax evasion. The rich: well they’re just really smart business people and we should worship them!

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You see US tax law is so complicated and I know so little about it that I don’t know if this would work or not. I’m guessing somehow not unless you’re rich.

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Many business owners that I know do a lite version of this. Going out to eat? Discuss work for 5 minutes, then you can call it a business meeting and avoid paying taxes on the meal. Driving to and from work? Gas is a write off. Buying supplies for the office? Tax free, and maybe some of the supplies make it home with you.

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That’s fraud. The 5 minute business discussion can be written off, the remaining (let’s say) 55 minutes cannot. Maybe it differs where you live, but where I do only travel between work destinations can be written off, so home to work doesn’t count. Buying supplies for the office is a normal and valid expense, taking them home is theft and/or taxable

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Oh yeah, I probably should have specified that it’s not legal, just common practice. Tax fraud ain’t anything to fuck around with.

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12 points

Last I checked in the US, the time wasn’t a factor. You only get to write off 50% though - I think the assumption is that you would have had to feed yourself anyway and the extra 50% is the cost of doing so in a restaurant or for the other party’s meal.

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They’re simply talking about what people do and probably usually get away with. I hope no one is reading a comment like that (or yours) on the Internet and then changing how they file their taxes…

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8 points

Yeah if you own a small business, learning what you can write off is crucial. It takes a lot of the pain out.

But you’ve still gotta have an actual business XD

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2 points

yeah and a business is not allowed to not have revenue for over a certain period of time.

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15 points

Never trust anyone or anything. Trust me.

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11 points

What does this even mean? Can someone explain?

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26 points

They’re trying to avoid paying taxes by recreating the absurd Hollywood style accounting, but things don’t quite work like that.

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My dad’s friend did this for years, bought his kids a home and “rented” it to them. He was able to write off a lot of repairs/renovations and improvements, while they wrote off their rent money, which was just the mortgage payment. There were some other little things that could be done, but by and large it was very advantageous for the whole family (better mortgage rate too), and resulted in huge savings for them. Dad called it the “set your kids up for life” plan.

He wanted to do it for me and my sister but funny thing is you still need the money to buy the second house to get started…

There is also something you can (or could?) do in Canadian tax law where you could set up your mortgage a certain way and basically write off the interest you pay. It has a name but I stopped doing that research awhile ago and can’t recall. It had some sketchy risks and was definitely “kinda” legal. I am not rich enough to afford a lawyer to make it legal for me…

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My dad’s friend did this for years, bought his kids a home and “rented” it to them. He was able to write off a lot of repairs/renovations and improvements, while they wrote off their rent money, which was just the mortgage payment.

But then doesn’t he have to pay income taxes on the rent? Where if it stayed his house he couldn’t write off the repairs, but any money he paid for the mortgage is tax-free.

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