Is there a felony hiding in almost all tax returns?
I think you forgot to verb that sentence.
Maybe I could a felon, if she asked nicely.
Yes, i could a felon, but i caught the railing, but yes i would a felon down the stairs.
Once more, with felon.
I’ve lost that loving felon.
etc.,etc.
If life hands you a felon, make felonade.
Could you a felon?
Would you a felon?
On a rail or in a jail?
With a ram or on the lam?
Most tax returns are fairly simple. I’d say that math errors might be common, but the IRS has been correcting those for the last few years. So, I’d say that the vast majority of tax returns contain no felonies.
I’d say Yllaria felon his sword to bring us that answer.
I shouted my loudest, but all of my words felon deaf ears.
I once felon someone, nearly killed him.
I’ll repeat the honor code my father taught me:
“Don’t cheat. If it’s small it’s not worth the effort, and if it’s big you’ll be caught.”
It hasn’t been possible for anyone, let alone a felon, to hide in my tax return since I started doing them online about 14 years ago, but before then, there was an awful lot of paper, and I kept it in a filing cabinet. I suppose someone could have hidden in it. Not to my knowledge, though.
When I was little my father taught me how to keep a five-column ledger.
When I was a little older my father taught me how to keep two five-column ledgers.
Which raises the question: Just how much “creativity” on a tax return rises to the level of a (Federal) felony?
As stated above, simple math errors don’t. Rounded numbers? Deducting a regular monthly expense for which you happened to lose June’s invoice but have the other 11? Inventing a totally fake deductible expense? Inventing a totally fake dependent? Ignoring most of your under-the-table income? Filing somebody else’s return with made-up numbers to capture their refund?
Where is the line?
Caged Heat (1983)…?
I suspect it would be fairly hard to find a tax felony that didn’t require intent so the idea that you could be an accidental tax felon is improbable.
Was I not supposed to make paper mache sculptures with my w-2s, 1099s, 1040s, etc. after filing? I used it to work through my frustrations…but I guess a felon could hide among them - and I wouldn’t want that.
There are probably some hiding in tax returns. A large percentage is probably hiding in property insurance claims as well.