Occasionally, or frequently, CPAs are called upon by their clients to do the impossible make the tax go away. This usually occurs at the conclusion of a particularly profitable year or as the result of a windfall of income for which the issue of taxability was never considered. Alas, tis human nature. Let s start at the beginning. Ours is a self-assessment tax system which places the burden for computing the tax squarely on the shoulders of the taxpayer.
Tax is necessary to fuel the engine of government.
Regardless of whether we believe that government uses our money efficiently or not, none of us would want to live anywhere else. All of these shady deals that promise to eliminate taxes are just that, shady deals. Most require that you take your money offshore and simply lie to the U.S. government about your financial doings. Building financial security on a strategy of dishonesty and deceit doesn t seem very soothing to me. Additionally, you can t bring the money back into this country without your deception being found out.