Tax evasion is frankly underprosecuted in many jurisdictions. I’m certainly not endorsing it, but I wouldn’t assume the cost/benefit analysis is unfavorable if the costs are largely limited to the risk of civil and criminal sanctions.
Of course, we’d need to know where someone lived and the type of evasion they had in mind before constructing such an analysis. For various reasons, I have no interest in doing that or in encouraging evasion—I just think “crime doesn’t pay” without an analysis is too easy/comfortable an answer.
Tax evasion is frankly underprosecuted in many jurisdictions. I’m certainly not endorsing it, but I wouldn’t assume the cost/benefit analysis is unfavorable if the costs are largely limited to the risk of civil and criminal sanctions.
Of course, we’d need to know where someone lived and the type of evasion they had in mind before constructing such an analysis. For various reasons, I have no interest in doing that or in encouraging evasion—I just think “crime doesn’t pay” without an analysis is too easy/comfortable an answer.