In college when we went over game theory they showed how its actually in your personal best interest not to pay taxes. Like <15% of people under $250k/year are caught in a 5 year time soan. Many of those will have no penalties at all, some will owe calculated interest and very rarely will there be some criminal penalty.
The only reason you see people in the news prosecuted is to scare people into paying taxes… They don’t have the capacity to deal with everyone, even over long time horizons. Martha Stewart was to scare all the white people and Snipes was the IRS warning for black folk.
You can adjust your W4 and hope the IRS is so underfunded they can’t go after you.
In college when we went over game theory they showed how its actually in your personal best interest not to pay taxes. Like <15% of people under $250k/year are caught in a 5 year time soan. Many of those will have no penalties at all, some will owe calculated interest and very rarely will there be some criminal penalty.
The only reason you see people in the news prosecuted is to scare people into paying taxes… They don’t have the capacity to deal with everyone, even over long time horizons. Martha Stewart was to scare all the white people and Snipes was the IRS warning for black folk.