What you must declare as income to the IRS

[George K]

[Horace]

That’s a law so they can use tax evasion as a tactical charge when they want to throw the book at someone. They don’t want to throw the book at looters because their votes are very valuable.

[Larry]

US income tax short form:

1. How much did you make?___________

2. Send it in.

[Axtremus]

What? You’d rather the IRS say that “stolen property” is tax free?

The IRS’s publication covers other illegal activities too, like bribery, usury interest, etc. IRS required that income from those activities be reported and taxed too. See https://www.irs.gov/publications/p17

[Improviso]

Seeing through absurdity is not your forte, is it?

[Larry]

@improviso said in What you must declare as income to the IRS:

Seeing through absurdity is not your forte, is it?

He's missing his taw marble.....

[Jolly]

I suspect the lad doesn't know what a taw marble is...

[Axtremus]

@improviso said in What you must declare as income to the IRS:

Seeing through absurdity is not your forte, is it?

This is not absurdity. You see the same question come up frequently enough from the public, you provide clarification. The IRS provided clarifications that are within its lane.

[George K]

[taiwan_girl]

that is funny. Like someone who stole something is actually going to tell the IRS that. LOL

Kind of like when criminals go to court in the US, and they make them say that they "will tell the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth".

Trials would be pretty easy if people actually did that.

[George K]

@taiwan_girl said in What you must declare as income to the IRS:

Like someone who stole something is actually going to tell the IRS that.

@taiwan_girl understands irony.