Maybe he would have gotten a refund if he'd filed.
Maybe he would have gotten a refund if he'd filed.
IRS will catch her eventually if they haven’t already. No point in involving yourself when it’ll happen by itself.
why are there non-running topics on a running forum?
jack_cogan wrote:
why are there non-running topics on a running forum?
runn'in from the law counts
By that logic, you would also have turned in your neighbor in Nazi Germany for harboring Jews, gays and other "undesirables".
Short of knowledge of another doing physical harm to another, it's a dangerous path to see yourself as the righteous enforcer of the rules, but without knowing the entire picture, you may start a chain of events whereby another person's life is destroyed by your actions. Say you get the husband and wife sent to prison for tax evasion -- way to go! Now what happens to their 6 yearly daughter. She goes to live with her aunt and uncle who happen to be sexual predators.
Maybe the "tax money" is being used to provide care for a special needs child -- in some cases this can run in excess of $100k/year. Turn them in, they go to prison and now that child is a ward of the state. You deciding how another should live can have destructive effects on people beyond the target of your moral outrage.
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When she says "we haven't paid our taxes" what she probably meant (or what she actually said, but you got it wrong) was that "we haven't FILED our taxes" in some time.
Bad, yes, but it's entirely possible that she is owed money by the government, as a large number of people get a refund of some amount after write-offs and such.
If she has a job, her (your) employer deducts taxes from her paycheck.
Excellent point! My Mother-in-law has not filed taxes for 9 years and is at ZERO risk of being on the wrong side of the IRS. She's retired and on a small enough fixed income that she will never owe taxes the rest of her life.
Turn her in? You would have made of wonderful little Stasi. I hope you’re at least a little embarrassed by the question.
Tell her to get it sorted out now, because eventually they will catch up to her. After that, mind your own business, and grow up.
Free loading CW wrote:
We were talking about the stimulus checks, and my coworker said she and her husband hadn't gotten them and probably wouldn't. I was confused and said something about how everyone who paid their taxes gets it. Then she said they were "behind" and hadn't paid their taxes in "awhile." Uhhh...
This bothers me. I know what she makes and have an idea of what her husband makes, and their combined income is over $100k/year. They should be paying taxes. Apparently they haven't been caught yet somehow... Should I turn them in?
Welcome to the letsrun/TrumpWorld universe of this message board. It boggles my mind that so many responders attack you viciously for posing a reasonable ethical question. I say TrumpWorld because those responders reflect the Donald's values - or, rather, lack thereof - when he screws people through bankruptcies and cheats on his taxes by drastically undervaluing his properties while drastically overvaluing them when applying for credit.
One can't help but assume that all the people calling you snitch and Nazi and Stasi are themselves tax cheats since they cheer for your co-worker.
I also assume they refuse to wear masks since their only concern is for themselves.
I do think the folks who suggested you talk to your co-worker to warn her about the jeopardy that she and her husband are potentially facing had good advice.
Definitely not. Don't you have anything in your own life to worry about?
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Free loading CW- I've always paid my taxes but it's not my business as to what others are doing. Do you suspect them of being communist?racist?nazi? I would suggest get a life and myob.
This is an old thread, but here's the bottom line.
The employer files a W-2 for the employee. It includes the employee's Social Security number. It's a very simple matter for the IRS to write a search program to see if that SS number appears on a tax return for that year. If it's missing, it's a red flag that probably pops up somewhere at the IRS. In fact, I've gotten notices from the IRS for Form 1099 income I overlooked when filing.
If the IRS decides that they want to pursue it, they will. As others pointed out, the employer was withholding some of the paychecks for taxes anyway.
barmaleus wrote:
Don't you think you're being unfair to her in this case? I think she had good reasons for not paying the taxes you're talking about. Have you tried asking her about the reasons? Last month, my coworker admitted that he had not paid taxes for almost three years due to the fact that all his finances were spent on paying for an apartment and medicines for his wife. This reason is serious and justified. I helped him to correct the situation of financial affairs, recommend a good company with specialists who help in this case to establish business. I think your coworker will also be useful to learn about
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That’s not a justification of not paying taxes. I bet he has a new phone, has a car payment or house he could downsize, stops by for a Starbucks coffee, etc. there are probably several areas of his life he could cut back in to pay for expenses or get a second job, but stealing isn’t ok. If that’s how it works, I could come up with many excuses why I shouldn’t pay taxes.
Turn her in on the way to getting your vaccine.
God help us. What happened to America?
Tell her to run for president!
Strictly from what you describe, I would say leave the matter alone. It is not worth the problems it will bring. The tax department is definitely capable of finding out on its own and if your co-worker is really getting away with extremely large amounts of money she will be caught. Let fate deal with the matter. There are other problems in the world you can worry about instead.
.. in addition it seems you say that your co-worker did not get a stimulus check.
That is (or could be) her punishment enough and more troubles may be coming. You need not get involved. It seems the IRS is very well aware or has the potential to eventually dive into the case.
jack_cogan wrote:
why are there non-running topics on a running forum?
The "Letsrun.com" site is designed that way (as far as I know). There are other websites for different topics from politics, cars, house-renovation, bicycles, shopping, travel, nursing, cooking, gardening, Old TV shows, soap operas, being a human research volunteer, antique collecting ( you name it) that also have "off topic" pages in which people can discuss things other than the main topic that the site is for. I guess it is partially because it is hard to just stay on one topic so strictly, and things can actually get boring if you do, and sometimes you like to discuss things among other people who are like-minded at least in one of your hobbies, or life's routines, or what may be your job ( such as runner, or maybe being a running coach or race director etc) so as to discuss other things that you need advice on or are curious about and maybe you can get some good usable answers from others. After all, most people do other things and have to think about other things in life even if they otherwise "live, and breathe" one pursuit or hobby.
I think it is good. Though there may be trolls or absurd replies in any forum, you can learn from some people.
Of course you should. And when your spouse has half a drink too many and drives or your kids drink before they turn 21 or your neighbor jaywalks, make sure to run to the police. After you’re gone I’m sure they’ll erect a statue to honor you.
I would report them. I'm just being honest but I give the govt like 35k a year and that's not trivial.