The IRS Dirty Dozen
Big Picture Retirement®
Devin Carroll
4.7 • 546 Ratings
🗓️ 6 March 2023
⏱️ 47 minutes
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Summary
Every year, the "Dirty Dozen" list is compiled to warn taxpayers of common scams that they may encounter at any time. However, many of these fraudulent schemes tend to increase during the tax filing season when individuals are preparing their tax returns or seeking professional assistance. It is crucial to remain vigilant and avoid falling victim to these scams.
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| 0:00.0 | The Big Picture Retirement Show does not provide tax, legal, or financial advice. Listeners are encouraged to seek out their own advisors in these areas. |
| 0:10.4 | Hey, everyone, welcome to the Big Picture Retirement Show. I'm your host, Devin, joined today by my co-host, John Rott. |
| 0:17.0 | Howdy. |
| 0:30.2 | All right, John, it seems like people think they are always smarter than the people who are out there to chase criminals. |
| 0:31.0 | Absolutely. |
| 0:31.4 | Right. |
| 0:36.3 | Now, on one hand, we see the dumb criminals, you know, the silly things that people do and get caught. |
| 0:43.9 | But on the other hand, there are some, there's some criminals that engage in some pretty complex planning to do their illegal endeavors. Yeah, there really are. There are some, there are some smart criminals |
| 0:50.8 | out there. Yes, for sure. Some really, I mean, one of the, probably one of the best known in local recent times, Jeffrey |
| 0:59.1 | Epstein. |
| 1:00.1 | Jeffrey Epstein made most of his money doing tax planning for billionaires. |
| 1:04.3 | Most people don't know that. |
| 1:05.3 | No, I didn't know that. |
| 1:06.2 | They hear about the Lolita Express and the private island and and the sex trafficking and all of that |
| 1:12.7 | that was just influence peddling that's all that was but he got his entrance into that world |
| 1:18.4 | was tax planning for billionaires wow yeah and that stuff is but very from what I've read by |
| 1:24.7 | all accounts he was a he was a mathematical genius. |
| 1:27.9 | Yeah. |
| 1:28.3 | And his ability to take the tax code and create some very sophisticated plans that would save billionaires, literally hundreds of millions of dollars. |
| 1:39.6 | Yeah. |
| 1:39.9 | So I figure if I was a criminal, I would be the type that would rob a vein, right? |
| 1:43.1 | Because that just seems like, I just, I cannot think through doing illegal things that well. |
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