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Originally Posted by woj
so you are claiming that tax evasion was rampant before computers? How bad was it exactly? High income earners were reporting 100k income, but really were making millions? how do you know? how does it compare to tax evasion now? It's all just speculation... If it was more difficult to audit, then why wouldn't that effect lower income earners too? Like the example you pointed out, waitresses were able to cheat on taxes more easily? How can you be so sure that tax evasion wasn't actually more rampant among lower income groups? without any statistics/facts to back things up, like I said, you are just stating an opinion...
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Woj,
It was more prevalent with high income
and low income earners. I didn't say it was rampant. I said it was much harder for anyone to do meaningful audits. If you want to be a waitress and under-report your tips, you'd be better off trying to do that in 1951 than in 2013 as far as the ability of the IRS to conduct an audit goes... You also would have had a much easier time killing a man with a bar stool and getting away with it in 1951 than in 2013 for much the same reasons.
