[Frondo]

Happily, this also doesn't happen in the US. Simply failing to pay your taxes will result in your wages being garnished.

Jail is not involved for failing to pay your taxes--you have to do a lot more than that to actually invoke criminal penalties for tax-related stuff.

[refurb]

Doesn't happen?

Still... it isn't often that the Internal Revenue Service greets them with shotguns drawn. But that's what happened to rapper Young Buck - real name David Darnell Brown - on August 3rd, as the IRS attempted to satisfy a tax debt of roughly $300,000.[1]

Three businessmen told the Senate Finance Committee today of Internal Revenue Service agents who, with guns drawn, broke down doors, terrified workers and forced teen-age girls to change clothes in front of male agents in raids at the men's homes and businesses that they said were unnecessary.[2]

[1]http://www.accountingweb.com/tax/irs/rappers-home-raided-at-... [2]http://www.nytimes.com/1998/04/30/us/3-businessmen-testify-o...

[Frondo]

Did you read those linked articles?

From the second one:

"But the testimony by the three wealthy businessmen from Texas, Oklahoma and Virginia also showed that the agents had reason to suspect they had come across a $300 million tax fraud in one case and a drug operation in another.

Holes and contradictions in testimony by two of the businessmen prompted Senate Democrats to complain that the hearings were not a search for truth but a one-sided propaganda show by Republicans, whose polling data show that attacking the I.R.S. is their best strategy for raising money and winning votes."

That's not a simple failure to pay taxes.

And the first article, the rapper was not jailed, he did have a bunch of stuff seized to pay off a $300,000 debt, however. No mention of a dog being shot, no mention of anyone being tazed.

[refurb]

I did read the articles. Did you read them to the end? Yes, Senate Democrats did claim there were holes and contradictions, but the victim claims there were not.

And, no the rapper wasn't tazed or his dog wasn't shot, but IRS agents did raid his home carrying shotguns.

[Frondo]

So when you said "bust your door down, shoot your dog, taze you, and throw you in jail," for simple failure to pay taxes, what did you mean?

Because the story in the linked articles went something like "bust down your door, NOT shoot your dog, NOT taze you, NOT throw you in jail, but seize some of your stuff to pay off a sizeable tax debt or maybe work out a deal to pay off your taxes". Which is a big difference from what you originally said.

[refurb]

I think the grandparent was going overboard in his description. I was just trying to say they aren't far from it!

[jstalin]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tax_evasion_in_the_United_Stat...