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To those who were skeptical of the IRS blurb: https://www.irs.gov/publications/p525#en_US_2023_publink1000229557

Turns out it's real.

Tom
That’s so they can get you on tax evasion charges if for some reason the contraband charges themselves dont stick. Prosecutors often have to violate civil rights of the accused to break the case, but the tax evasion charges are easier to make a case for because all they have to do is follow the money. They just have to prove that money came in. It gets written into the law, and of course proper warning must be given, and the warnings seem a little ridiculous to the rest of us.
 
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That’s so they can get you on tax evasion charges if for some reason the contraband charges themselves dont stick. Prosecutors often have to violate civil rights of the accused to break the case, but the tax evasion charges are easier to make a case for because all they have to do is follow the money. They just have to prove that money came in. It gets written into the law, and of course proper warning must be given, and the warnings seem a little ridiculous to the rest of us.

The main issue I have is, they have to state the actual value of the stolen goods. I mean, if it's stolen, that surely diminishes the value, doesn't it? And about drugs, how high is the income? (Okay, pun intended)
 
Tennessee used to sell tax stamps for illegal liquor and illegal drugs. I was going to buy some just for the fun of it, but they quit selling them a couple years before I found out about them.

TN Illegal substance tax

It was ruled unconstitutional, but they may revise the law to meet constitutional guidelines.

Court ruling

Oh, wow, that's another substance to discuss high-ly.
 


This reminded me.

A decade ago a golfing pal's wife bought him for his birthday, one of these new watches, which would show you the distance you were from any pin, on any course you programmed it to display.
He and I were playing with another friend on the first day he was wearing it.

On one hole, all three of us had hit our drives a similar length, but he and I were on one side of the fairway and the second friend the other. He came over and grabbed his wrist and looked at the watch.

"That's never 215 yards to the pin!" He said.


I replied, "Correct! But it is a quarter past two!"