Timothy C. May wrote:
Indeed, I am extremely limited in how I can avoid complete traceability of my major income sources. Not rich enough to shelter income in a really big time way
That's just lack of creativity. Try this: Get a friend of yours to setup a consulting company and hire you (and maybe a few more people who pay too much taxes,acting like a mixmaster). The company pays you salary to cover your cost of living. Anything above that, i.e. money that you would otherwise save, is paid to an offshore company as license fees (or something, this is the creative part). This is really legal as long as you don't receive any money from offshore without paying the taxes. If you borrow the money back it gets a little fuzzy. Thousands of people in upper middle class are doing exactly this, so the mixmaster is really in place already. The local mix is just an extra precaution for deniability (it was my friends company, I had no idea what he was up to!). For the friend to accept the (very minor) risk of jail, he/she should probably be much poorer than you, or have a *lot* of clients, to make his pay outweight the risk. By the way, are there any PGP encrypted mailing lists for discussing serious tax fraud? Mr.X