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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Besides what everyone else has said, the practicality is that you go from a simple drug dealer (i.e. arrested in possession of drugs) which is pretty easy to address to now you have added a complicated tax element on top of it. This makes a.) conviction more difficult and b.) the jury potentially more sympathetic to these being “manufactured charges”.
TL;DR: DAs are not equipped to go after tax evasion and this will prolong trials and reduce the probability of conviction.
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