How Long Does It Take From Start To Finish To Be Sentenced For TaxEvasion?

There's another thread referencing that we all are funding this administration's evils via our tax dollars and necessity to work for a living. I agree with that notion whole heartedly, but always thought there was nothing I could do about it.

So my question to those DU'ers who know: Next April 15th, if I refuse to pay taxes, how long does it take to work it's way through the legal system until such a time that I'd be held accountable?

Way I see it, I'm not willing to go to jail on principle by not paying taxes. I don't want to imply that. But what I'm getting at, is could I withold paying taxes long enough so that by the time I was FORCED to pay them it just might, JUSTTTT MIGHT, be going to the new hopefully Democratic 2008 Administration that would spend it more wisely? Could that work? What if we all withheld as much taxes as possible so that when we finally did pay up we'd be supporting the new administration rather than the old?

Just an impulse idea, that's all. :)

There are many factors. Do you normally pay estimates or have withholding? What property do you own? Have you own business?

Bottom line is, if you don't pay anything in, it will still take them awhile to catch up with you to start the process.

Once they do, it can be dragged out to a certain point. Again, various factors come into play. Give me more info, and I can tell you more.

if you fail to file, they'll figure that out pretty quickly and come after you.
if you file but fail to pay, you can stretch out non-payment for quite a long time, especially if you have a good tax lawyer.

I know I have to have some withheld simply because of payroll process. But if I max out the exemptions on both my wife's paycheck and my own, we will have almost no taxes deducted. Then, like you said, I could file and not pay. I can put the money in an account to make up for the interest I'd owe when I was finally forced to pay, but with a little luck the taxes would then be going to a non-corrupt Democratic administration!

i started off my income-tax-owing days as a consultant earning on a 1099 basis (not salary, self-employed) so i had to do my own quarterly filing. it saves me on interest not only because i pay at the last minute 4 times a years instead of twice a month, but also because i can calculate fairly closely EXACTLY how much should be withheld. for most people, the standard withholding tables overwithhold by quite a bit (they presume you have a fair amount of side income, etc.)

now i'm on salary, but i've been in the habit for so long, i just put 99 exemptions on the w-4 and pay my quarterly withholding.

DO NOT TRY THIS AT HOME! as long as i actually pay my quarterly withholding. this is perfectly kosher, but if i don't, i'd be in big trouble.

But from my dealing with them I'd give you about a year and a half at best. They don't waste much time when they want a chunk of your ass.

Some instances, yes, but others can go well past 1 1/2 years.

And I was making some large money.

And I just got nailed again for seven years.

I have never spent a day in Court.

And the first time involved millions of dollars in unpaid taxes.

"There are thousands who are in opinion opposed to war, who yet in effect do nothing to put an end to ." --Henry David Thoreau

This can't be the home of a 47-year-old practicing physician. It sits in the middle of a poor East Austin neighborhood, fitting in nicely with the other slightly tattered rent houses on its block. The front porch steps could use some paint, and the wood siding would benefit from an overhaul.

The house's plain interior contains a dining table with six mix-and-mix chairs. A garage-sale brown sofa with cat-scratched arms anchors the living room. It's the home of Dr. Paula Rogge, an emergency room physician. A house where prostitutes have solicited visiting friends before they could get out of their cars. Where Rogge's bedroom was converted from a large storage closet. And where her schoolteacher roommate chips in with half the rent.

Rogge's 1980 Toyota, parked on the street, is paid for. She has no mutual funds, IRA, or retirement plan. Today she wears the same clothes she wore yesterday, along with worn, black basketball shoes. Once, while serving as a doctor at the Eastside Family Practice, she asked that her salary be lowered to $100 a week.


http://www.austinchronicle.com/issues/vol18/issue32/xtra.wartax.html

This woman is extra special!

Yes you can push it that far. I used to help clients get clean with the IRS, some hadn't filed in years and years. I imagine if you owed a hefty sum, it might be a different story. Since most folks get a refund, I'm not sure the IRS really cares if employees file at all.

protest through their taxes but don't want to refuse to pay to the point of imprisonment? Has this idea been floated before?

Is advocating income tax evasion a crime??? Cripes I don't know. I haven't seen anybody at DU advocate it. A question was asked and answered. I would guess each person would have to decide for themselves, know what I mean??