Comments on: IRS to search PayPal records for tax evaders

Federal court grants IRS permission to troll through PayPal customers' offshore credit card and bank records.

[supermikenews]

The Internet Has No Geography

My government is so great and brilliant that they have helped me make a better financial decision for myself and my family. Now I will do no more USA shopping (since I'm a USA citizen). Instead, I can have my stuff shipped from overseas or from offshore in order to avoid taxation. If I purchase in a large enough bulk, I save on shipping costs..

The idiots in my USA governments (that's plural, because the idiots are from the city, county, state, and federal government) do not understand that the Internet has no geography. I can be like two clicks away from shopping in India than I can in Texas. Before the Internet, we purchased items locally because of convenience. Governments around the world took advantage of that and charged taxes to help those communities (and the Federal and State/Province governments as well). People were ensnared by this. The only way around it was to travel to somewhere else where the taxes were cheaper. But after the Internet, I have no geographical constraints. I can circumnavigate the globe in seconds.

No need to get angry at the knuckledraggers, though. We can just show them what happens when they continue to make brilliant decisions like this.

[drfez]

That's clear thinking...

Wow, now the logic behind not paying taxes is to use the Internet to shop offshore. And then we'll whine when we have Internet use taxes to replace the sales taxes and income taxes we try to evade. Let's not support our local and domestic merchants who are providing jobs to our friends and neighbors so we can evade taxes because after all we don't need any of the services provided by the government. Great thought process.

[MisterFlibble]

Thank You republicans voters for bringing us...

...another step closer to total totarian dictatorship!!! Why don't you make it official and vote republican again this year, and then it'll be offical that we no longer have rights!!! God, it isn't like we weren't warning you of what a one party system would bring to this country if you choose to ignore the principals of checks and balances and voted against your own self interests just to prevent the "homosexuals from marrying". Now you have to live with this nightmare of a government gone awry, but you have dragged us who didn't vote for these people with you... thanks!

[dewalt25]

zero sense

...another step closer to total totarian dictatorship!!! Why don't you make it official and vote republican again this year


Just a little contradictory, huh?

[mssoot]

Congrats, you have been selected for audit

What did you think? your tax evasion will go unpunished. Hope your paypal account name isnt the same
Have a nice day from the IRS