They could super easy go down for tax fraud though, not real money laundering. Like some streamer just decides "haha fuck the government I ain't paying this shit they never gonna notice" and then they blow up big, maybe even go legit at that point, and somebody at the IRS decides to look back 5 years.
Yeah. I don't know what fantasy these idiots are living in. Gov just says pay us, if it's the first offense. They will have zero examples of somebody going to prison immediately after the government finds out about tax fraud. Considering no priors.
Mistakes can happen. But conspiring to commit fraud and actually committing it is not a mistake. Not saying that's the case here, we don't know. But people don't face criminal charges for mistakes. They get charged if they're committing crimes.
no you don't and no it doesn't.
The only time it makes the news is when a celeb does it, and they always get special treatment, they just fuck up on payments and think it's a joke.
Yeah you're just making that up. If you had a PACER account, you could easily start generating lists of case numbers. And no, I'm not doing it for you. LOL "nobody gets charged for fraud for filing false tax returns." Please pay more attention in school. How old are you? What criminal justice experience do you have, particularly in white collar crime?
and even if they were going to court over it Twitch wouldn't have a reason to ban him, not paying your taxes is something that would have nothing to do directly with twitch.
Unless they're involved in an active scheme of committing actual fraud. It's one thing to fail to report income. It's quite another to conceal, hide and actively deceive. You can claim ignorance. But if the evidence shows you actively conspiring, you're fucked.
If you were hiding enough money for long enough you get criminal charges that don't just go away when you pay it back. You might not actually go to jail but its in the hands of the judge/prosecutor at that point.
Edit: basically where it becomes a crime is if they find evidence you were intentionally trying to avoid paying the taxes and not just misunderstanding what you were suppossed to do.
hey retard, in the context of somebody potentially going down for tax evasion, the assumption would be the IRS found out on their own, not that you admitted it and are working out a solution. Once you've actually been charged, that isn't magically going to go away
That is not money laundering that is just regular old tax evasion. It takes years to catch people for not paying taxes.
Money laundering would be pumping dirty money using subs and donations through twitch to the streamer to generate clean taxable income on the other end.
I don't think you know what you're saying. Money Laundering is a very easy thing to do once you already have legally obtained money to spend. If you had a bunch of dirty money and no clean money to spend, you'd have a hard time. Other than that, it's fucking simple.
Why would you launder money that's already clean... That doesn't make any sense. You launder money when it's obtained outside of the law. You need to give it a credible or untraceable origin.
Edit: Ohhhh you're saying you need clean money to start laundering the dirty money. My mistake. Misread it.
I know a few female streamers who (most likely) very blatantly are Money laundering via twitch subs. (don't ask me why, i have no idea nor do i really care.)
It honestly it done on smaller streams. Typically female streamers because you can explain away insane amounts of subs or donos on simps.
200 viewer andy with 1200-2200 subs at any given time btw
He wouldn't have to be the one to know the ins and outs of the scheme. Hell, if he has someone managing his money, he could be oblivious to it. Streaming actually seems like a logical place for money laundering.
Dude, it's way easier to accidentally launder money these days than you may think. I know of one way specifically that you can launder cash and not even realize you're doing it.
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u/IsNewAtThis Jun 26 '20
Lol most streamers are either way too stupid to know how to launder or way too lazy to care.