From: "Jamie" 
Newsgroups: misc.consumers.house misc.invest.real-estate
Subject: Re: Illegally renting main house and living in another house built  on back of the house on same plot...
Date: Tue, 19 Oct 2004 12:40:35 -0400

I seriously hope that MY taxes are not paying someone a salary for this...
considering how people get away with much larger, obvious income tax
evasions that don't require extensive Internet forensics to uncover the
identity of a person who is considering the possibility of committing a
crime at some point in the future.

I suspect the IRS would get a lot better mileage simply by auditing a larger
number of tax returns each year.

"Maren Purves"  wrote in message
news:ckpu21$g0f$1@news.hawaii.edu...
> it may be part of their job assignment to find thing like this?
>
> Ravi Desai wrote:
> > Besides, they are going to have a lot of explaining to do about why they
> > are surfing the internet while on the job :)
> >
> > Jamie wrote:
> >
> >> True. But that assumes that the IRS actually has the resources to
enforce
> >> petty income tax evasion by tracking down suspicious postings on the
> >> internet with no other evidence of wrongdoing; that it's even possible
to
> >> identify the individual who posted that (is it a real email address?
> >> did it
> >> exist before last week?); and finally it seems likely that the actual
> >> offense would not be committed for years.