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by antisthenes 1899 days ago
Tax evasion is not extra income.

It just means you underreported another type of income in some other form and ended up paying less taxes as a result.

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Vaguely related, one of my biggest tax pet peeves (beyond people that don't understand marginal tax brackets at all) is the people who will cynically claim that a billionaire just donated to charity $X because they actually make more money from doing that because of the tax deduction. And it's like, no, they get to deduct it from their earned income, so they mathematically always end up with less money by donating it and deducting rather than just keeping it.