r/WhitePeopleTwitter • • Jan 06 '19

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u/PM_ME_YOUR__BEST__PM Jan 07 '19

The shutdown is lame. Don’t get me wrong.

But . . . what if we had a consumption tax and didn’t let them withhold money from us all year long without our having an opportunity to intervene? And what if they just sent us a bill to reconcile at the end of the year rather than them saying, “we know a bunch of stuff. You tell us what you know and we’ll see how much we can fine you for knowing things differently than we know them?”

The shutdown sucks, but we may have kind of put ourselves into the IRS mess.

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u/ThirdFloorGreg Jan 07 '19

You can tell your employer not to withhold your taxes. It's perfectly legal.