In the U.S. you are presumed innocent until proven guilty. Except the tax authority. They presume guilt. Argentina just passed a law for the people.
Posted by MazdaProphet
In the U.S. you are presumed innocent until proven guilty. Except the tax authority. They presume guilt. Argentina just passed a law for the people.
Posted by MazdaProphet
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Don’t worry about the rich. They have attorneys to fight this. This is for the rest of the people who
Don’t have access to these attorneys.
Here is the full article in Spanish
https://www.diarioya.ar/inocencia-fiscal-a-quienes-alcanza-y-que-cambia-la-ley/
In criminal law, the government has to prove you committed a crime beyond a reasonable doubt. That’s the “presumed innocent” principle people usually mean.
With taxes, the system is built around self-reporting. You report your income and deductions. The IRS initially accepts your return as filed. If the IRS later challenges it (audit), the burden shifts to you to substantiate what you claimed.
That can feel like “presumed guilty” but legally it’s closer to “you made the claim, so you must support it.” If you say “I earned $X” or “I qualify for deduction Y” you’re asserting a fact. The IRS doesn’t have to disprove it first, they can ask you to show evidence.
Tax enforcement is about compliance, documentation and accounting.
In the US you can go to jail until they prove your guilty trust they did it to me 2 months later and a couple 1000 dollars and what do you know I was innocent of all charges except for going 5 miles over the speed limit which isn’t a jail able offence