There was a neat piece on NPR Friday about why it's a bad idea to evade filing Federal tax returns. Among the spine-tingling techniques used to pinpoint tax cheats:
* [This blew my socks off] The IRS has subscription data for many national magazines. Thus, if they know you're getting Time & Newsweek & Barron's and USNews but they see no tax return, they nab you.
hahah! Maybe this is another reason not to let Safeway get you in their database- I guess the IRS wouldn't quite believe you not filing a tax return if they were to see you buying bottles of Dom Perignon champagne!! Big Brother truly *is* watching you, I guess!! -- Julie - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Julie M. Albright "Passions elevate the soul to great things" Ph.D Student Department of Sociology University of Southern California albright@usc.edu * * * Fight Big Brother- Oppose Clipper * * _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ __ Julie M. Albright "Passions elevate the soul to great things" Ph.D Student Department of Sociology University of Southern California albright@usc.edu * * * Fight Big Brother- Oppose Clipper * * * _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ __ _