Yesterday was the deadline for tax filing. I am glad I filed early but not everyone followed my lead. A study reveals that in 2006 Americans underpaid by about $450 B - for billion or roughly equal to Pentagon spending. Public shaming has become a tool to collect from deadbeats. The U.K. publishes lists of deliberate tax defrauders.
And in Bangalore, India they hire drummers to visit the homes of tax evaders and to literally bang the drum if they don't pay. I still file a paper return and I hope my whiteouts and erasures do not cause suspicion as I would hate to have them drumming on my front lawn. It would sound like Belfast on the twelfth day of July.
tjs
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