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by __blockcipher__ 1900 days ago
Yeah it's a very transparent way to have an excuse to throw someone in jail. In a past life I had some illegal income that I briefly considered reporting. Paying taxes on money is way cheaper than laundering it anyway (which I was never big enough to need to do to be clear).

The IRS promises to keep any admissions of illegal income from other government agencies, but in practice that's total bullshit and so anyone with a serious criminal empire would be a total idiot to actually report those taxes. You're damned if you do and damned if you don't.

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> way to have an excuse to throw someone in jail

More like: "way to have another means to put a criminal in prison."