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From: jwp@uwmacc.UUCP (Jeffrey W Percival)
Newsgroups: net.taxes
Subject: Re: I AM NOT A CROOK
Message-ID: <2046@uwmacc.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 20-Mar-86 18:26:32 EST
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Posted: Thu Mar 20 18:26:32 1986
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In article <2c91e314.2a75@apollo.uucp> tbg@apollo.uucp (Tom Gross) writes:
>
>>>        "When in doubt, deduct it!"
>>>
>>   Doesn't it bother you at all to break the law?
>
>    Who said anything about breaking the law or *stealing* or
>    filing a false return?
>
I fully agree with Mr Gross here.  There's a world of difference
between claiming something you know is false (mortgage points,
for example, when you didn't pay any) and claiming something
about which you have a legitimate uncertainty (points on refinancing,
for example).  The average taxpayer is not a tax lawyer, and cannot
be expected to consult one on every ambiguous point because the
average tax payer may not even be able to *recognise* an ambiguous
point.  I try to make the best possible determination of all my
claims, without adopting the obsequious strategy of always caving in
when I have the slightest doubt.  If I later learn that I mis-judged,
then I expect to pay the difference.  That is *not* stealing.
-- 
	Jeff Percival ...!uwvax!uwmacc!jwp