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Getting Out Of The Blue Calls From IRS? Just Hang Up

Getting Out Of The Blue Calls From IRS? Just Hang Up

On a special day that happens to be just a couple of weeks before the end of tax season, we would get on the speakerphone and each of us would call a family member of one of the others pretending to be an IRS agent with questions about that persons return.  Having the return in front of us strengthened the credibility.  It was particularly satisfying to pull the prank on my brother who often used his ATT job to pull jokes on the family.  He one time convinced my mother to put a paper bag over the phone while they blew the dust out the lines. Ah, the good old days.

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Over and over again courts have said that there is nothing sinister in so arranging one’s affairs as to keep taxes as low as possible. Everybody does so, rich or poor; and all do right, for nobody owes any public duty to pay more than the law demands: taxes are enforced exactions, not voluntary contributions. To demand more in the name of morals is mere cant.