Fraulein Hilda
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- May 23, 2009
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Avoiding taxes is not the same as tax evasion.
I would tend to agree although I am sure you and I would need to work out the details between avoidance and evading. If you, say, chose not to work as much and earn less, that would be legal avoidance. You avoided the tax by simply not having the money upon which the tax is laid.
However, hiding income for the explicit purpose of avoiding taxes that would otherwise be laid upon that income, well, that is tax evasion. And considering you haven't stated any intent other than actually avoiding taxes, if you aren't earning less or giving to charity, the field gets pretty narrow. For honest people anyway.
Defer income. Move a business someplace else.
I think it's partriotic to cut off states that are out of control like MD and CA right now.
They need to bottom out like a drunk. Go broke Start over.