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[–] regul@hexbear.net 37 points 6 months ago

Funny as it may be, I think this is essentially how they "got Al Capone for tax evasion".

[–] hotcouchguy@hexbear.net 33 points 6 months ago (1 children)

If I return stolen property in a later year, can I claim that as a loss?

[–] Thordros@hexbear.net 11 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

Yes. I am mainly not joking.

[–] sovietknuckles@hexbear.net 30 points 6 months ago (1 children)

It's one of the TrueAnon rules for life

Pay taxes on crime money. They don't get you for the crime, they always get you for the taxes. Get an accountant.

[–] SeducingCamel@hexbear.net 3 points 6 months ago (1 children)

How do you pay these taxes without getting got and basically admitting to crime?

[–] sovietknuckles@hexbear.net 2 points 6 months ago

By paying an accountant to figure it out

[–] TraschcanOfIdeology@hexbear.net 21 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

Imagine stealing something, returning it after the end of the fiscal year, and then having to pay taxes on it lmao.

[–] Weedian@hexbear.net 18 points 6 months ago

Can I claim my landlord as a dependent?

[–] RyanGosling@hexbear.net 17 points 6 months ago (4 children)

What is the purpose of explicitly mentioning this? Is it just to troll? Like obviously you want to be smart with money laundering and whatnot, but why bother mentioning this at all as an official agency?

[–] reagansrottencorpse@lemmy.ml 37 points 6 months ago

It's so they can tack on extra charges for no reason to your likely non violent drug offense.

[–] axont@hexbear.net 13 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)
  1. makes it easier to go after organized crime or large drug enterprises. The feds need stuff like warrants and witnesses for normal crime things. But tax evasion is an easy way to start an investigation.

  2. People don't report their illegal income as "crime money" on their tax returns. They'll write it down as normal business expenses.

Now this is just hypothetical law stuff, but the IRS is under no obligation apparently to report criminal money to any other federal agency. The reason for that is the 5th amendment, where people have a constitutional right against self-incrimination. Since reporting income is mandatory, you're obligated to say where you go the money. But you have a constitutional right to not be forced into incriminating yourself, so hypothetically you're not supposed to get investigated/arrested on the sole basis of self-reported illegal things on your tax return. Since that would be evidence based on a forced self-incrimination.

[–] KoboldKomrade@hexbear.net 8 points 6 months ago

Because the mob and the CIA/FBI were working together and bungling evidence so no trial could be held. The rest of the government knew they had to do something otherwise the Al guy was going to be the functional warlord of America. So make it a crime to not report your criminal money, arrest you for breaking the law $100 million times, and boom, the bad guy is in jail for 10000 years now.

[–] Tunnelvision@hexbear.net 7 points 6 months ago

I feel like this is the most open and naked threat towards the CIA I’ve ever seen.

[–] SorosFootSoldier@hexbear.net 17 points 6 months ago

Drugs Sold: 14k (EPIC PRANK NOT REAL DO NOT INVESTIGATE)