Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP
Posting-Version: version B 2.10 Apollo 11/21/85; site apollo.uucp
Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!gamma!epsilon!zeta!sabre!petrus!bellcore!decvax!wanginst!apollo!tbg
From: tbg@apollo.uucp (Tom Gross)
Newsgroups: net.taxes
Subject: I AM NOT A CROOK
Message-ID: <2c91e314.2a75@apollo.uucp>
Date: Tue, 18-Mar-86 13:07:24 EST
Article-I.D.: apollo.2c91e314.2a75
Posted: Tue Mar 18 13:07:24 1986
Date-Received: Fri, 21-Mar-86 04:43:21 EST
Organization: Apollo Computer, Chelmsford, Mass.
Lines: 45



>>        "When in doubt, deduct it!"
>>
>>    If you just follow that rule you will ALWAYS come out
>>    ahead.

>   Doesn't it bother you at all to break the law?  And to steal (yes,
>*steal*) from other Americans.  I don't see how you can give any other
>name to knowingly (or at least negligently) filing a false income tax
>return.

    Who said anything about breaking the law or *stealing* or
    filing a false return?

>    From the point of view above you should lie through your teeth.
> Your chances of even being audited are no more than one in 50-100;
> the penalties would have to be pretty steep to make your expected
> return negative.

    Look, the government isn't going figure out all your deductions
    FOR you; you have to CLAIM them.  All I said was if you're not
    sure if a given deduction is valid, go ahead and take it.  I'm
    NOT suggesting that you deduct your Brandy consumption as a 
    contribution to "Christian Brothers" (supposedly that has been
    done) because chances are you KNOW that's not legal.  I am saying
    that if you move and change jobs, for example, and are not sure
    if the change in commuting distance is exactly enough but you
    thinks it's close, GO AHEAD and claim the deduction.

>    I really do despise you.  You seem to have no sense of personal
> integrity or honor.  And it doesn't bother you to steal from others.
> Pretty sick in my view.  Fortunately the majority (at least for the
> moment) seem to agree with me, so the whole society of the United
> States doesn't collapse...
>

    Okay, so you're NOT serious.  On the odd chance that you are
    NOT kidding about this, or that someone else thinks I am 
    a crook, I hope my clarification above will clear this up.


    Tom Gross
    Apollo Computer, Inc.
    Chelmsford, MA