What if I owed taxes in 2014 and uh forgot to file?
Then I procrastinated and never filed because of anxiety over the first bit.
For the next 9 years.
so, all the smart people are telling you to talk to a tax/law professional to help you file voluntarily
i'm not a smart person. you should fake your own death and live off the grid.
Taking this under serious consideration. Someone else said file for bankruptcy which if I can do that for taxes, fuck my credit score I'll take the money and run.
Never had a credit card anyway. Not like I'm ever going to afford a mortgage anyway.
fuck my credit score I’ll take the money and run.
Never had a credit card anyway. Not like I’m ever going to afford a mortgage anyway.
What if 20% of comrades kept a good credit score and got mortgages for commie houses for the remaining 80%, who would remain poor on paper (food stamp and Medicaid eligible) but rich through communal agreements and sharing?
I swear I'm THIS close to getting the snowball rolling, getting a radical district in a city going. I could bring everyone's total expenses down below $900/month.
You can have a roommate situation where everybody is their own household.
It wouldn't be too hard for cohousing members to simply pay their share of utilities and property taxes, cover all this plus a carshare on a poverty-line income, and still have plenty left over.
The mechanisms aren't illegal, they just take a bit of effort to effectuate.
my personal suggestion for death faking would be to drive your car into a brick wall and pulling out your teeth to leave at the scene
and then living in a tent above the building you just crashed into
Personally I would acquire an ultralight or similar craft, and crash it into a mountainside in northern Canada. Ideally you would want to have a getaway vehicle, forged documents, disguise, and cash waiting for you in the woods that you parachute into.
If they haven’t came after you for almost a decade then you’re not some burning priority for them to come and fuck you up either.
Shop around for a local accountant you can sit down with and discuss the situation. They’ll have seen the situation you’re in probably a dozen times a year, pay them to fix the problem for you and then don’t worry about it anymore.
If the plumbing in my house starts leaking I call a plumber/knowledgeable comrade to fix it.
Go to a reputable tax place and let them handle it. It will be much easier than you think and the anxiety will just melt away.
Good advice, but I should elaborate I meant what if you never filed for the next 9 years. I also kind of suspect some fuckery on my former employer since I filed the same as always and my income didn't increase much at all.
Motherfuckers turned out to be shady as hell.
Hmm my thinking was based on the idea of a person not filing any taxes for nine years straight, which can totally get sorted out. It's not fun or anything, but you can also get a tax prep place / an accountant to do all of the thinking for you, which is worth a lot when something is making you anxious.
Yeah that's what another local comrade that just got back to me basically said. So yeah all this is making me less terrified.
I'm just trying to avoid having my bank account drained or becoming homeless.
Cuz that would probably mean losing my job too and then just being totally completely fucked.
Like I said this is a big dumb idiot moment.
It won't be that dangerous, no need to worry. In the worst case scenario they'll tell you some number and you'll pay it back over time. The IRS wants to get paid more than they want to emiserate.
Also I know how anxiety and avoidance (and other things) can make things like this happen. It's pretty common as a category of thing that people do. The dumb thing in this situation is a tax system that already knows what you owe but makes you actively jump through hoops to pay taxes just so some tax prep companies can collect rent off of workers.
The IRS already knows you owe taxes. If you haven't gotten letters in the mail then you're probably not fucked, it might just be an annoying situation is all. Go to a tax filing place
You haven’t paid taxes in almost a decade and the IRS never noticed or sent you anything? I’ve heard a story like this once before, as it turns out the person never made enough money to owe the govt any taxes so it was fine. Other than that scenario I don’t know how they haven’t tracked you down yet. I forgot to file once and they showed up asking for it a few years later plus fees
TurboTax delenda est. They're the only reason we have to file our own taxes.
Well, if it's affecting your mental health you should just file it and get it over with
Eventually, they will find out and make you pay it back
If you're nice and apologetic, they'll almost certainly give you a realistic and decent payment plan as long as you still have an income
They don't want to throw you in jail because then they can't get your tax money. Their goal is to get everything that you owe them
Worst case you can declare bankruptcy if you don't want to pay it when they chase after you at the cost of your credit score being destroyed for years and year
The tax people literally don't care about the circumstances, they just want the situation sorted out. Get it sorted out and you'll be fine, don't get it sorted out and you might or might not have tax people coming after you eventually
american tax system sounds really fucking annoying. I just get a receipt every year saying exactly how much I owe and then I simply send the money by scanning a QR code
haha are you me? Literally exact same scenario. I'm pretty low income anyway which is why I probably haven't heard anything.
They will eventually send you a bill or garnish your wages. Best thing to do is file an ammendment to it and then ask for a payment plan.
If you have a normal work situation it is unlikely you owe money every year for that period. So if you are a 1040 form kidna comrade it probably worked out more or less
My dad bases his answers off of how high the audit meter goes up in the tax program he uses.
Talk to an accountant, or a lawyer, but my guess is that if they didn't come after you for nine years about it then they're not too mad about it and would probably be happy to get whatever you owe them.
