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Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 17 views
Nick Stafford, a Virginia man, used pennies to pay his sales tax on two automobiles to the Department of Motor Vehicles, because he could not find a direct phone number to their office. Stafford said he had to file a Freedom of Information Act request just to get the number. That prompted him to pay…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 7 views
As the Internal Revenue Service has increased their efforts to track down and prosecute U.S. Citizens who are evading taxes, a growing number of people are resorting to a drastic step to avoid paying. The IRS says there has been a sharp increase in the numbers of Americans renouncing their citizenship…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 7 views
Did you know that among the eight leading world democracies only Switzerland has a better tax compliance rate than the United States, and that is only by one tenth of one percent? In reporting The Lying Game, as Time magazine calls it, they credit the religiosity of Americans as the reason our cheating…
Robert Phillips • Illustration • • 9 views
John Grisham's newest novel, The Street Lawyer, opens with a homeless man taking several lawyers hostage in their office. Wanting to determine how much each lawyer donated to the poor, the hungry, and the homeless, the man orders one of the lawyers to obtain the others' tax records for the previous year.…
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A little boy wanted $100.00 very badly and prayed for weeks, but nothing happened. Then he decided to write God a letter requesting the $100.00. When the postal authorities received the letter to God, they decided to send it to the President. The president was so amused that he instructed his secretary…
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A fine is a tax for doing wrong. A tax is a fine for doing well.
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A fine is a tax for doing wrong. A tax is a fine for doing well.
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Edward Gibbon, author of The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, has attributed the fall of the Empire to: 1. The rapid increase of divorce; the undermining of the dignity and sanctity of the home, which is the basis of human society. 2. Higher and higher taxes and the spending of public monies for…