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To: bentway who wrote (50221)	12/31/2017 3:22:48 PM
From: i-node	Respond to of 364492

>> You can't 'legally' cheat on your taxes. You defend such 'legal cheating' by corporations and the wealthy all the time. I would say it is a term of art which suggests an overly aggressive position taken in a tax return. Tax professionals have specific guidelines as to how such positions may be taken. Almost everything, short of fraud, is legal if properly disclosed. I have filed tax returns for clients (a few) based on no information whatsoever because they had none, no idea what they made. You have no choice but to disclose it, do your best to estimate it, and go with it. Because not filing is ALWAYS a crime. That being said, my use of the term here is probably sloppy. But the point is these are the same people -- like pubo -- who are constantly wanting higher taxes, and now they got 'em, and they're trying to figure out ways to get around them. I guess hypocrisy might be another word for it.