Newsom is shitty but THIS IS THE WAY!!!

    • CalipherJones@lemmy.world
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      4 hours ago

      I know someone that hasn’t paid their taxes in years and they’ve yet to face consequences. I genuinely do wonder if the IRS has the capability to enforce tax collection atm.

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        They “caught” me because I forgot to file the paperwork showing my employer arranged me paying my taxes on vesting stock shares. Couldn’t have been more than four figures. I’m glad they’re on the case of small-fry tax “cheats.”

        Meanwhile, billionaires pay nothing in taxes.

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            6 hours ago

            Oh, guess that doesn’t work for standard deduction/low income. At any rate, I’d probably just donate to known, reputable charities, and/or not deduct.

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              yup, the standard deduction sucks. don’t use it. and you don’t actually need to donate much of anything. all you need are receipts and maybe photos. just don’t go over 10k.

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                Seeing as how donactions are only a deduction from your taxable income, 10k won’t get you to not paying taxes unless you make like 20 or 30k or something. And I gotta think thier system will flag that, probably just assuming it was a typo.

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                Yeah, it’s not really worth it for low income. And tax preparers don’t even accept receipts from certain organizations anymore because this organizations hand out blank receipts and tell the donors to fill them out, which led to rampant and blatant abuse.

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          I stopped like 80% worth and I still file my returns. I’m on a stupid cheap payment plan and year over year it just keeps adding up and they just keep saying to make the agreed upon payment.

          My friend’s been doing it like 12 years now and owes into the six figures, no ramifications, his goal is to die with a huge balance. I’m only like 2 years in. It was originally like 25% unpaid but after this years shenanigans I upped it significantly.

          I cannot advise this at all by the way, it could go very badly, but if I can at least make it another 2-3 years before I permanently leave the US, that’d be good.

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