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10. IRS policy is NOT to jail people who are not front page items

Reply to Phil1934 (Reply #2)

Tue Jan 14, 2014, 02:49 PM

Jan 2014

Thus poor people just pay up, they are rarely charge for IRS violations. These violations are handle administratively, thus fines must be paid, but no jail time.

The IRS wants front page headlines and go after people who are front page headlines. The IRS has a long history of doing this, think Al Capone (lots of income, no taxes paid AND it was front page news). The justification behind this is that people hear of people going to jail, and to avoid jail they pay their taxes.

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