[toomuchtodo]

Tax evasion rarely works out long term.

[Rmilb]

I think the people in the panama papers would disagree.

[tomschlick]

Yup. Remember, it wasn't the police who got Capone, it was the IRS.

[cinquemb]

So the IRS is going to put the same amount of resources into each of the new mini - Capones as they did Capone?

[saalweachter]

That is literally the IRS's job. IRS funding at the margin directly increases or decreases tax revenues, because they have more or less resources to spend pursuing tax evasion.

[jandrese]

Luckily the IRS has been kneecapped by Congress because they started looking into the finances of some sketchy looking conservative nonprofits.

http://www.cnn.com/2014/07/18/politics/irs-scandal-fast-fact...

[cinquemb]

Well if they contract out the chain analytics work to the most connected firms, I wouldn't be surprised if we found out that russian hackers are the ones behind helping americans launder their bitcoins/ether…

Maybe Equifax has some engineers working on this right now for them!

[pavlov]

Capone's transactions were not recorded on a globally distributed immutable ledger.

[cinquemb]

Ahh yes, with a 100% provable 1-to-1 mapping to all US citizen illegal transactions.