• Flying Squid@lemmy.world
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    I don’t know what an FRN is (something stupid, I assume), but damn, I wish I had the kind of money where I owed a million bucks in income tax. I’d pay it gladly and go back to my spring holiday in Tuscany.

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      I’d guess since he said it was from intellectual property I bet it was a scam where he claimed something like “5 million intellectual property income” to secure a loan from a bank. So now the IRS is coming after him because he claimed income to a bank but didn’t pay taxes on it.

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        “Intellectual property” could easily mean “money made plumbing sinks.” Normal english words mean nothing to a sovcit.

        Seems to me they own a buisness that they haven’t paid taxes on for years and were sued by IRS and likely defaulted.

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        You are probably right, but there are also plenty of rich people who will do anything to get out of paying taxes, even by convincing themselves they found the cheat code.

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        That makes a lot of sense given that his bank “took all his FRNs”.

        I think I’d get punched if asked a friend to “borrow some FRNs”. Like that request would send up enough of a red flag that a pop to the shoulder would be a reasonable reaction.

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      As an autogenous autonomous human vessel, I can access alta-vista to discover it’s a floating-rate note!
      Not a voucher, nor coupon.

      I’m off to the Moors, sheepster…!

    • OneCardboardBox@lemmy.sdf.org
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      I had to register something called an FRN when I received my amateur radio license from the FCC. I assume that in my situation, FRN stands for FCC Registration Number or something.

      Somehow I doubt that’s what the sovcit is talking about.

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    This sounds like those two aliens trying to find the right words to convey a thought and it’s laughably off because it uses every synonym but not the correct words.

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    It’s like they’re playing one of those games where you have to describe something but you’re not allowed to say certain words.

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      It really looks like they think that if they use the correct magic words, they will never have to pay for anything. The only reason it didn’t work is because they forgot a word or said something wrong.

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      that’s EXACTLY what they are doing, they believe that saying the wrong word publically is legally binding curse letting the government control them again

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    Just send a standard 1411 form with “I do not owe money” in red ink, a 2 cent post stamp and your SIGNATURE to the UK embassy in France. Works every time.

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    Funny at preferring to “donate” money to someone to help with their taxes rather than… pay taxes

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    Sorry, what’s an FRN? It sounds like they are actually earning money somehow, but I don’t understand the lingo.

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    All truely committed Sovcits will arrive at this sad point eventually. The rabbit hole only goes in one direction.

    When they reach the bottom of the pit financial ruin and broken relationships are waiting for them.