It's that time again
Those of us who help other folks cope with our nation's (and state's) absurd system of taxation are really in the thick of it now, with just four weeks to go until the big deadline. Right about now, with the daffodils in bloom, the federal government indicts some relatively high-profile figures for tax crimes. The resulting publicity is supposed to strike the fear of God into any taxpayer who's thinking about cheating on their taxes, or blowing the system off altogether.
This year, our area's lucky winner (or perhaps the first of several) is Chester Davis, the president and owner of ESA International, a software and engineering firm in Gladstone. He's looking at potentially five years in the federal pokey -- and the rest of us had better be looking for those receipts.
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Comments (6)
Wow, with a list like that it seems like the Feds were hanging back and feeding him enough rope to let him hang himself but good.
Posted by G.A. Seldes | March 20, 2012 8:02 AM
Shoot, three years ago all that would have gotten you is an appointment as Secretary of the Treasury...
Posted by tankfixer | March 20, 2012 8:17 AM
I saw this in the Trib. This guy has got to be pretty dumb!
I wonder where the gold he bought is now?
Posted by Portland Native | March 20, 2012 8:18 AM
Jack - Since you said (or perhaps the first of several)...
This one involves a tax cheater who was serving time for being convicted for filing for income tax refunds claiming a huge income and saying he was due a substantial tax refunds.
But that is not the interesting part. He allegedly escaped recently by forging his own release papers.
http://www.justice.gov/usao/pam/news/2012/Small_03_14_2012.htm
Posted by John | March 20, 2012 9:03 AM
I thought that the glorious new Form 8949 had permanently closed the tax gap, and cheating on one's taxes is now a thing of the past.
Posted by Stephen | March 20, 2012 9:08 AM
"one count of uttering a fictitious obligation."
I gotta' go pee.
...No you don't -- sit down and be quiet.
I guess they can make a Federal case out of it.
Posted by Old Zeb | March 20, 2012 6:27 PM