Those of you who check my journal regularly know that I am currently being audited by the IRS. It has been determined that I owe them $800 in back taxes, plus fees and interest. Now, these unpaid taxes are due to the fact that an employer in 2002 failed to send me a W-2, supposedly due to address changes (strange that my other W-2s found me no problem).
Well, I have decided not to pay the $800, regardless of circumstances and penalties. I find it repulsive that someone who is voluntarily working below the poverty line, in a federal program, for the good of the populace at large was even audited. In the past 4 years, my AmeriCorps service and my current stint working on my Masters in Non-Profit Management, I have made approx. $600 a month (that's what I make currently). Why not tax some rich asshole, why attack the guy who already has to struggle for 3 square meals? I'm truly finished with my term as an American. I am only American because I was born here, something I had no choice in. I can no longer actively support (which I do, through my taxes, etc.) this nation. I am actively seeking to abandon my graduate assistantship (i.e. free master's degree tuiton) in order to expatriate myself. I am preparing a lengthy statement for the IRS, which I also plan to send to a variety of other media outlets.
This is what it's come to. Understand this if nothing else. American politics has driven someone who voluntarily accepted a life of poverty and service, in the hopes of bettering our country, to seeking asylum in foreign lands. I *hate* my country, that's what this is saying. If I paid the $800 I owe, what would it go to? Another couple crates of ammo for the war. Fuck no. Fuck you Mr. Bush, fuck you. I am quite finished here/
Well, I have decided not to pay the $800, regardless of circumstances and penalties. I find it repulsive that someone who is voluntarily working below the poverty line, in a federal program, for the good of the populace at large was even audited. In the past 4 years, my AmeriCorps service and my current stint working on my Masters in Non-Profit Management, I have made approx. $600 a month (that's what I make currently). Why not tax some rich asshole, why attack the guy who already has to struggle for 3 square meals? I'm truly finished with my term as an American. I am only American because I was born here, something I had no choice in. I can no longer actively support (which I do, through my taxes, etc.) this nation. I am actively seeking to abandon my graduate assistantship (i.e. free master's degree tuiton) in order to expatriate myself. I am preparing a lengthy statement for the IRS, which I also plan to send to a variety of other media outlets.
This is what it's come to. Understand this if nothing else. American politics has driven someone who voluntarily accepted a life of poverty and service, in the hopes of bettering our country, to seeking asylum in foreign lands. I *hate* my country, that's what this is saying. If I paid the $800 I owe, what would it go to? Another couple crates of ammo for the war. Fuck no. Fuck you Mr. Bush, fuck you. I am quite finished here/
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I don't want to rain on your parade, but it's hard to fight the government. If you try and fight it, you're probably going to look at some extra fines/fees and maybe some jail time if you end up telling them to go to hell and not pay at all.
Is it fair? No.
Do a ton of people get away with cheating on their taxes every year? Yes.
It's just the luck of the draw.
Do what you can, dude. Hope you have a lawyer friend or family member.