Tax Evasion

You probably know the famous quote by Benjamin Franklin about death and taxes. He suggested they were unavoidable. However, that fact doesn't keep people from trying. As inevitable as they may be, people keep making aggressive attempts to avoid both death and taxes.

For death, people take supplements, rub creams on their skin, get surgery, sleep in hyperbaric chambers...anything to stave off the inevitable.

And then there are taxes. Same deal. Hence, the concept of tax evasion. This category includes any attempt to avoid paying taxes. Skimming cash from the register. Paying people under the table. Messing with invoices to avoid sales tax. Or, on the ritzy end of the scale, putting money in offshore accounts and (illegally) "forgetting" to tell the IRS about it so that they don’t have to pay taxes on that money.

Unfortunately, while most death-avoidance techniques are perfectly legal (bathing in baby blood being an obvious exception), you risk a lot of punitive repercussions with tax evasion.