Great American Tax Dodge How Spiraling Fraud and Avoidance Are Killing Fairness, Destroying the Income Tax, and Costing You

Name: Great American Tax Dodge How Spiraling Fraud and Avoidance Are Killing Fairness, Destroying the Income Tax, and Costing You
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ISBN: 9780520236103

ISBN-10: 0520236106

ISBN-13: 9780520236103

Edition: 2002

Authors: Donald L. Barlett, James B. Steele

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In The Great American Tax Dodge, a book that should infuriate and galvanize citizens everywhere, the best-selling authors of America: What Went Wrong? expose the millions of Americans who are dodging their income taxes at every honest taxpayer's expense. With the clarity, insight, and readability that earned them two Pulitzer Prizes, Donald Barlett and James Steele explain how Americans are cheating as never before, and why most are getting away with it. The authors relate the stories of a Manhattan couple who spent $1 million a month to maintain their lifestyle yet never paid income tax, a California couple who provided sport utility vehicles for their children at taxpayers' expense, an…

Book details

List price: $34.95
Copyright year: 2002
Publisher: University of California Press
Publication date: 10/1/2002
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 311
Size: 5.50" wide x 8.25" long x 0.70" tall
Weight: 0.748
Language: English



Preface to the Paperback Edition


Acknowledgments


Prologue: An American Original



The Tax Cheat Next Door


$1 Million a Month and No Tax Return


Phantom Children


Secrets of the System


Invisible Workers and Untaxed Profits


The Perfect Tax Return: Always a Refund



Treasure Islands


Mysterious Entities


The Entrepreneur


Strictly Confidential


The Hidden World Around You


Open Secrets



The Internet: Avoidance Made Easy


Escaping the Taxman


Secret Codes


Gnomes in Cyberspace


Caveat Emptor



Congress's Hidden Agenda


Demonizing the Tax Collector


Favoritism for a Few


The Beginning of the End


Collapsing of Its Own Weight



Pursuing the Powerless


Tax Cheaters' Lottery


More Fraud and Fewer Audits


Computer Crash


Operation Slam Dunk


The Big Fish Who Get Away


The Good Life on the Run



A Culture of Deceit


Cutting Corners


The Fraud Industry


Everyone's Doing It


High-Profile Dodgers



Congress's Plan to Raise Your Taxes


A Shifting Burden


The Flat Tax


The National Sales Tax


Lobbying for the Rich


Epilogue: Starting Over


Notes


Index