The hard question becomes where do you draw the dividing line between failing to grasp and follow the intricacies of the tax code, and deliberate tax evasion? My father, who is NOT by any means an uneducated or naive individual — he's a chartered engineer who spent almost 20 years working for HP Labs, and actually became the de-facto Spokane division of HP Labs because HP Labs wanted him that badly but he didn't want to relocate to California — had a scare late last year when he realized that he had been misunderstanding a particular provision of investment taxes for almost ten years. An entirely innocent mistake, for which he could have ended up with a huge fine or even been jailed.
That said, this much is pretty much inarguable: if he set his own house on fire with his wife and daughter inside, then flew his plane into a government office building, and he thought either of those things would HELP anything ... 'his little red engine done broke down.'
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That said, this much is pretty much inarguable: if he set his own house on fire with his wife and daughter inside, then flew his plane into a government office building, and he thought either of those things would HELP anything ... 'his little red engine done broke down.'