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Originally Posted by polish_aristocrat
well, I talked to a webmaster in the EU ("old EU") that uses his personal bank account (nothing anonymous about that obviously) for his business since 5+ years, doesn't caim any income and never even got caught................... yet
it's a matter of scale as well........ you're right about all the power that tax forces have, but let's be fair, that doesn't mean that EVERYONE will be caught
there are serial killers who never got caught... so you can't say that ayone using epass to defraud the IRS for a few k's here and there, will be caught
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its quite simple.
1) you declare your income to your tax authorities
2) you sign on the dotted line
3) you can't "unsign" it
4) you can't "undo" the fact that you just committed multiple serious crimes.
there is no way to say "everyone will get caught" anymore than i can say "everyone will get AIDS and die from fucking Jenny" ... however... any sane person can agree that fucking Jenny without a condom, knowing there is the potential to get AIDS ... or even risking fucking her at all is pretty retarded.
i am constantly stunned by the ignorance of people in this area and the fact that people act like paying or not paying taxes is an option that you can just opt out of without consequences. ... or that people can even think "oh, i bet i won't get caught with my anonymous debit card" as if trillions of dollars haven't already moved around the world that way and there is just nothing any tax authority can do about it.... so someone did something and didn't get caught? so what? that has nothing to do with placing appropriate values on risk vs reward.