Taxable Talk

Let’s assume you owe the IRS $10,000 in back taxes. What would you do? Perhaps obtain a payment plan? Maybe you can negotiate an Offer in Compromise? Or maybe you have so little funds on hand than you can go into Currently Uncollectible Status. Or maybe you will elect to attempt to steal welding equipment, and then become the prototypical demolition derby driver. And yes, someone actually did this.

Joel Grasman (and his wife) apparently owed the IRS $10,000. Instead of doing one of the obvious things to resolve the tax debt, he first stole welding equipment from the MTA (New York’s transit system), then on his way out drove his truck into power lines. That caused thousands of Long Island power customers to be powerless.

This New York Post article notes that Mr. Grasman has confessed. He faces a multitude of charges; frankly, his tax debt is the least of his current problems.

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