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Who conducted this survey? The IRS?
This is interesting since 4 in 10 Americans don't pay taxes.
hummmmmm eeeyeah, I can understand that since the average citizen can have his life ruined, but the “elite” can just pay up to get promoted
Most Americans don't realize that they are the ones being cheated.
UNACCEPTABLE!
” An IRS survey finds that nearly nine in 10 Americans think it is “not at all” acceptable to cheat on your taxes. “
Ummmmmmmmm, yeah...
Like anybody’s gonna tell the IRS “Sure, it’s okay to cheat — I do it every day”.....
nine in 10 Americans think it is “not at all” acceptable to cheat on your taxes.
The other 10% believes in tax avoidance the old fashioned way (creation of tax sheltered partnership, trusts, corporations and nonprofits) and have already booked time at Charlie Rangel’s Caribbean dacha
Most Americans inadvertently cheat on their taxes. I had no idea until this week that we are supposed to claim on our taxes everytime we borrow someones car. Who knew? I wonder how you claim it. Do you use a fair rental car amount plus gas. I believe that if you stay at people’s home for visits it is supposed to be claimed. What about eattting at someones home? The tax code is too complicated.
Then there was a 8 year break where they trumped up charges against the White House.
Now I guess they are back to 90's reporting.
Seems that it’s quite acceptable for the modern American political class.
I'm sick of this, I'm going to retire, sell my house and buy a place up in the mountains.
Accidental cheating is fine and probably the norm, considering the complexity of the tax code. Unless you can afford an accountant the average taxpayer likely gets cheated by the government more often than not.
They can argue why would there be any reason to simplify the system if 90% of Americans believe its acceptable to pay the tax due under the current incomprehensible tax code.
Maybe, we should start reporting these obviously illegal tax evasions by rats to the IRS and to the following site.
Former IRS Attorneys for Tax Whistleblower Rewards
Tax Whistleblower Reward Program
The United States of America Will Pay Huge Rewards to Anyone Who Exposes the Under reporting of Tax
THE PROBLEM: Billions of Dollars in Unpaid Taxes
In the United States of America, a small percentage of taxpayers (i.e., individuals, businesses, trusts, and estates) underreport and fail to pay up to $400 billion in taxes every year, according to a study released by the Internal Revenue Service. This small group is comprised of an elitist group of wealthy Americans and businesses who neglect or refuse to pay their fair share of tax and who undermine the stability of the country to satisfy their own personal greed. This missing revenue causes unnecessary increases in annual deficits, national debt, and national interest payments. In the end, this missing revenue must be made up by honest Americans through higher taxes.
Each year, the United States is forced to spend over $11 billion to finance IRS enforcement efforts aimed at catching individuals and corporations who underreport and fail to pay tax. However, the schemes, devices, and shelters used by these individuals and corporations to avoid the payment of tax have become so sophisticated that efforts by the IRS to detect them have failed. As a result, the annual amount of unreported and unpaid tax has steadily grown each year. Confronted with the devastating effect of the ongoing and systematic underreporting of tax by individuals and corporations, the United States is taking a new approach to enforcement efforts aimed at detecting the underreporting and nonpayment of tax.
THE SOLUTION: The American People
In recently enacted legislation (December 2006), Congress turned to the American people to expose taxpayers (i.e., individuals, businesses, estates, and trusts) who underreport and fail to pay tax. The United States has announced that it will reward any person who provides information that leads to the identification of $2 million or more of unreported tax, including interest and penalties. This new legislation guarantees that any person who provides information under this “Tax Whistleblower Reward Program” will receive a minimum of 15%, and a maximum of 30%, of the amount that the IRS actually collects. The new law, which provides a potential “windfall” to honest Americans who expose those who underreport and fail to pay tax, is known as the IRS Whistleblower Reward Program.
If you have information regarding a taxpayer (i.e., an individual, business, estate, or trust) that under reported or failed to pay tax, you will be rewarded by the United States for providing such information. Contact us NOW to start the process of identifying tax avoidance and obtaining your reward! Your confidentiality is guaranteed!
I consider the IRS to be unacceptable.
Well, so do I but it's the IRS, what are you going to do?
Yep, everyone in America files a tax form to dutifully report their state taxes every time they buy something on the internet.
Throw everyone in jail.
The dumbasses who wrote the laws and then violated them get put on death row.
That’s because most Americans don’t pay taxes.