Do You Owe The IRS More Than $10,000?

[ProfessorGAC]

10. Thanks Folks Some Good Thoughts Here

i lost my internet access about 20 minutes after i posted. A transformer on the other side of the river cooked itself. Didn't take out our power, but damaged the fiberoptics. Lost TV, internet and VoIP phone. Not sure how it's designed, but TV came back in about 20 minutes, but no internet or phone until late last night.

Some thoughts in reply:
I know these outfits are likely scams, but there still has be a big enough market for the scam artists to drop advertising dollars.
I also know penalties are a major factor, and that one can often negotiate those down without the "experts", but you have to be underpaying to get penalized in the first place.
And, i guess the surprising thing to me is that the vast majority of people have enforced withholding. This means that SBO's must have a silly high proportion of people "robbing Peter..." as some of you have said. And that a silly high proportion of them are doing it by skating on the IRS.

I just find all this disproportionate.