Imagine smash and grab person, he or she will be charged for that, but bot for selling that and not taxing that profit. Or small scale drug dealer, he makes money but does not get charged with tax evasion. Same for robbery or embezzlement or anything. Why are tax evasion charges not being added on top of original charges??
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It adds complexity to the case. You don’t actually have to report the source of all your income, So it’s not always clear whether a specific piece of income was reported or not – depending on the facts the state might have to go through the person’s whole tax record and review all of the income they claimed. This still might be easy under a lot of circumstances in a lot of states (as someone else mentioned, federal tax law would be a separate case from most crimes which are typically state level), but it’s still way more work than just getting a witness to say “yeah he pointed a gun at me and emptied the cash register.” For not necessarily any real benefit.
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