Reply #8: You would STILL be responsible for it

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Fairly well known trivia item about the IRS - 10% of the questions it answers, it answers incorrectly.

Getting an incorrect answer from the IRS will do nothing at all to slow the wheels of tax collection. According to them, it is your responsibility. If they tell you you owe $1, and their calculations say you owe $1000, guess what. They will collect $1000 out of your hide when all is said and done.

And really, they have to operate like that, or half the country would try to evade taxes by claiming wrong advice from the IRS.

A non-judicial legal opinion from someone who is paid to provide a biased opinion is no defense for torturers, or fraudsters, or for anyone else. If your lawyer is wrong about the law it is still your sorry ass, not his, that ends up in jail.