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Taxes are not penalties...taxes are the percentage of our income we pay the IRS to help fund state and federal programs. Penalties are the amount of money added to the taxes which are owed for things like Failure to File, Failure to Pay, Under-reporting your income on a federal tax return, etc. If these things occur outside the guidelines set forth by the US Tax Code there are penalties (like fines for not returning a book to the library on time). Please do not confuse the two. Although sometimes taxes feel like penalties they are clearly two different things.

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