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Tax Evasion and Avoidance

The practices of reducing or avoiding tax liabilities through legal or illegal means.

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Jan 28, 2026
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If I'm born into the U.S, is there any way for me to live without paying taxes, and without a social security card, etc?

Being born in the generally confers the ability to obtain a Social Security number and subjects a person to the same tax system as other U.S. residents; the reporting available here shows how noncitiz...

Jan 19, 2026
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when was the tax rate in the USA above 80% and did people really pay that much tax?

Top statutory marginal individual income tax rates in the United States exceeded 80 percent for large swaths of the mid‑20th century—roughly from the mid‑1930s through the early 1960s—with a wartime p...