Chicago wants to pay residents to turn in tax cheats

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Rats! City to Pay for Informing on Tax Cheats

The reward would amount to some sort of percentage

Chicago and Cook County residents aren’t the only ones about to get shocking tax news; the city is debuting a “tax whistle-blower” plan that could turn neighbor against neighbor in Chicago’s business community.

The folks at city hall will pay cash bounties to informants who turn in business tax cheats around the city. The reward would amount to some sort of percentage of the tax money that the city recovers.

"It's just another way of bringing people into compliance," Revenue Department spokesman Ed Walsh told the Sun-Times.

"It would probably be ... a business knowing that a competitor is not remitting a tax. An employee [of the tax-dodging business] could know that, too. Typically, you need to provide some type of incentive."

http://www.nbcchicago.com/news/local-beat/...s-66367287.html

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The IRS has been doing this for a few years now for income tax cheats.

Being a snitch is such a patriotic AMERICAN thing to do!

http://www.irs.gov/newsroom/article/0,,id=176632,00.html

Procedure Unveiled for Reporting Violations of the Tax Law, Making Reward Claims

IR-2007-201, Dec. 19, 2007

WASHINGTON — The Internal Revenue Service today outlined ways informants can report violations of the tax law and possibly claim a reward based on the amount of additional tax, penalties and interest that is owed.

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Unless you are a DuPage county resident... HAL 9000 will be watching you Scandal.

Time to make some extra cash... oh yeah.

I wonder if Bill complained about Patriot Act snitches too.

[NickD 203]

Typical distraction of tax collectors to get the people to fight each other. Very typical around here for home owners to complain about their neighbors assessed value being lower than theirs. Also a constant battle between homeowners and corporations for tax share, if the state charges more taxes to corporations, they will leave the state to find a state with lower taxes. If the homeowners had any brains, they would do the same thing, just leave that damn place. Now that would leave the tax collectors high and dry.

When what they should be doing is combining their efforts to fight the tax collectors and get data on exactly whose pocket their tax dollars are going into.

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Right on Nick. I always remind my griping neighbors that they do vote for most of these people after all. Assessor Houlihan is looking at moving on from this position soon, at least.

[I AM NOT THAT GUY 5,715]

Unless you are a DuPage county resident... HAL 9000 will be watching you Scandal.

Time to make some extra cash... oh yeah.

I wonder if Bill complained about Patriot Act snitches too.

If I had noticed them, I problably would have, unless they were complaining about the neighbor that speeds up and down the street on his motorcycle. But then again, I chased him off with a baseball bat months ago, and things have been quiet since.

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Darn those pesky kids!

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Darn those pesky kids!

No discipline! What happened when any adult could jump in your sh!t when you were fvcking up, and your parents still whipped your butt when you got home. It takes a village, right Hillary?

Edited October 29, 2009 by Lone Ranger

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Unless you are a DuPage county resident... HAL 9000 will be watching you Scandal.

Time to make some extra cash... oh yeah.

I wonder if Bill complained about Patriot Act snitches too.

I am a DuPage resident. Cook County is for losers. Just ask BY.

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Darn those pesky kids!

No discipline! What happened when any adult could jump in your sh!t when you were fvcking up, and your parents still whipped your butt when you got home. It takes a village, right Hillary?

Hell yeah Bill. Completely agree- it does take a village spaning dangit.

Unless you are a DuPage county resident... HAL 9000 will be watching you Scandal.

Time to make some extra cash... oh yeah.

I wonder if Bill complained about Patriot Act snitches too.

I am a DuPage resident. Cook County is for losers. Just ask BY.

It must be why so many DuPage reeeeesidents are moving to Wicker Park, Lincoln Park, Hyde Park, West Loop, Lakeview... those are award winning areas!! What does DuPage have? IKEA? Ohhhhhh.

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It must be why so many DuPage reeeeesidents are moving to Wicker Park, Lincoln Park, Hyde Park, West Loop, Lakeview... those are award winning areas!! What does DuPage have? IKEA? Ohhhhhh.

We also have McDonalds world headquarters (in Oak Brook) and FermiLab (in Batavia). So nnnyeahhh.

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It must be why so many DuPage reeeeesidents are moving to Wicker Park, Lincoln Park, Hyde Park, West Loop, Lakeview... those are award winning areas!! What does DuPage have? IKEA? Ohhhhhh.

We also have McDonalds world headquarters (in Oak Brook) and FermiLab (in Batavia). So nnnyeahhh.

Don't forget Argonne...

And I hope you made it out to the Arboretum... it is always beautiful in fall.

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It must be why so many DuPage reeeeesidents are moving to Wicker Park, Lincoln Park, Hyde Park, West Loop, Lakeview... those are award winning areas!! What does DuPage have? IKEA? Ohhhhhh.

We also have McDonalds world headquarters (in Oak Brook) and FermiLab (in Batavia). So nnnyeahhh.

Don't forget Argonne...

And I hope you made it out to the Arboretum... it is always beautiful in fall.

We did!! We were there last Saturday, pretty much at the peak of the fall colors. It was fabulous. Did you go?

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Oh man it is a sight is it not?

You mean you didn't see the HAL 9000 terminal shifting among the evergreens??????????????

Not this year, no... I am thinking of Starved Rock in the Winter- but thats OTT b/c its neither Cook nor DuPage.