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Carpundit reads about six state reps who didn't pay state income taxes and concludes:

... these legislators who skipped the filing of their state tax returns are criminals who should be impeached and, if lawyers, disbarred. There is no excuse. ...

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I once didn't pay my taxes. I was in college. I was waiting for a family I babysat for to give me a kind of 1099 for the work I did for them. they never did... In MAY I get this call from the IRS coming down on my 20 year old ass for not paying taxes, telling me I'm getting audited etc... I submitted my taxes and they penalized me. And seven years later they inform me that I didn't declare earnings from the rich goddamn assfamily that never gave me paperwork confirming my earnings when I was in school. So I had to jump through more hoops, pay another penalty... all for like $1000 bucks. How the hell do these people get away with not paying their taxes. Diane Wilkerson and her ilk. And I get my ass kicked for a grand.

I hate them all. All of them. grrrrrrrr.

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The people that you babysat for were really and short-sighted, and erred by not giving you the paperwork to submit to the IRS. One thing is also certain--once mistakes get made by an average, run-of-the-mill tax-paying citizen for any reason whatsoever and the IRS gets on your case, there's almost no end to it.

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"Not filing tax returns" isn't the same thing as "not paying taxes".

If you are owed a refund and don't file a return, that just means you don't get the refund. You've still paid, whether via withholding or estimated taxes, and you haven't broken any law.

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Yes -- and in both cases where I got nailed to the cross, I was the one owed a refund. just because one presumes one is getting a refund is no excuse to wait five years to file. Everyone has to do it. and while it isn't breaking any law, it hardly seems upright or fair. Politicians, just because they're busy or lost paperwork or think they're being stalked... have no more excuse than I had. They should get their asses kicked just as hard.

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I thought there was a law penalizing people for not filing, even if they're going to get a refund.

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