[quote=Hobie]”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.”

Commissioner v. Newman, 159 F.2d 848, 851 (2d Cir. 1947)

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Thank you.. There’s a fine distinction between Tax Evasion versus Tax Aversion

Tax Evasion would be someone that admits they don’t pay state sales tax because Amazon didn’t collect it, despite all state tax laws that REQUIRE you by law to self report sales tax that a merchant didn’t collect. Dodging that is ILLEGAL…. Now, I’m not one to say whether someone should or shouldn’t self report uncollected sales tax, but Brian, on a previous thread (under his old handle, BrianSD not his current handle FlyerInHi) proudly boasted he didn’t pay state sales tax, on a thread that he also boasted how people should pay more taxes… So again, it’s not that I or many other on that thread that called him out on that, was really trying to take the higher morale ground, since whether or not you want to report uncollected sales tax is certainly a personal decision…But within the context of that old post by BrianSD (FlyerInHi), we (a few of us) were mocking the apparent hypocrisy of what he was saying: “everyone should pay more taxes, everyone but me”….The same double talk that always is spoken by BrianSD and FlyerInHi…which is why no one ever takes the morale righteousness from either of these handles seriously…. And once again, by responding to the thread, once again, it’s just one more proof that the two handles FlyerInHi and BrianSD are really the same two handles, despite the denial…(Thanks AGAIN for that confirmation. What is it, 4 times in a row now? …I’ll stop asking once you admit what everyone already know BTW)… ..Anyway, I digress from a digression thread jack on a stock thread. Go figure.

Back on topic… Looks like at the G20, Trump flipped sides again and things are cool with Huawei again, at least for now… Looks like the stock market, chip sector will rally this week… 7/7 is a big day.. Big product releases coming from AMD..