[MicroBob]

I believe that Capone never got nailed for any of his other illegal activities.

He only got nailed for failing to pay taxes ON those activities.



If you are making income it is taxable.
Your friend at the IRS is trying to help you cheat the system.

There's a very good chance that not paying would work out just fine and dandy and that you wouldn't get caught (although it's difficult to accurately dertermine what those chances are).
Obviously though, the reprecussions if you DO get caught can be quite severe.


I guess it's not surprising that a bunch of poker-players would be willing to just 'take a gamble' and hope it all works out allright.
But I believe the better EV play is to pay one's taxes.

I'm willing to pay a few thousand dollars per year to keep my chances of being shipped off to federal prison to as close to zero as possible.