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From: mrgofor@mmm.UUCP (MKR)
Newsgroups: net.taxes
Subject: Re: Not filing, overpayment, and refunds
Message-ID: <554@mmm.UUCP>
Date: Sun, 23-Feb-86 13:21:22 EST
Article-I.D.: mmm.554
Posted: Sun Feb 23 13:21:22 1986
Date-Received: Fri, 28-Feb-86 06:29:07 EST
References: <662@decwrl.DEC.COM> <1082@lsuc.UUCP> <1005@psivax.UUCP> <1707@bbncc5.UUCP> <513@mmm.UUCP> <3272@umcp-cs.UUCP>
Reply-To: mrgofor@mmm.UUCP (MKR)
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In article <3272@umcp-cs.UUCP> chris@umcp-cs.UUCP writes:
>In article <513@mmm.UUCP> mrgofor@mmm.UUCP writes:
>
>>I know a guy who, for a seven year period, decided that he didn't
>>have to file a return. He figured that the IRS was withholding
>
>I have one point to make in response:  Part of what you pay with
>income tax is `potential money': your time.  How much is your time
>worth?
>
>Ignoring the question of whether it is mandatory to file---is it
>perhaps cheaper not to file, though if you did you might get as
>much as a few hundred dollars back?
>
>(Of course, the answer depends on how you value your time.  And
>perhaps your health as well [eyestrain, nervous tension, and all
>that bad stuff while filling out 1040 forms]. ---And it is also
>important not to ignore that primary question after all.)

That's true - but everybody's "time" is not as valuable as ours (we
being high-paid professional types of guys :-)) In this guy's case,
if time is money, he'd have to PAY to sit on a park bench. :-)


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					--MKR
When you ain't got nothin' you got nothin' to lose.  - Dylan