Pay Your Taxes or they'll find you... Pennsylvania Taxes Commercial
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Reminds me of the 1985 film "Brazil" by Terry Gilliam. Which, by the way, if you haven't seen yet you should rent it this weekend.
I think they thought this was funny. I get why it isn't. But if I lived in PA, I'd probably overlook that in exchange for amnesty on penalties and half off my interest, which is what the ad is offering.
It's great that the state is offering penalty amnesty, but this was just a terrible way to do it. Were I a PA resident, I'd be incensed.
AT&T in fact does not know where you are (or, at least, has no inherent right to). AT&T in fact cannot force you to pay. AT&T's recourse for nonpayment is to report you to credit agencies so that businesses working in concert with them can stop extending you credit.
It is in fact a crime to evade taxes. The government has significantly more recourse than AT&T does. Whatever a commercial says or doesn't say, whatever you may think about it, if you owe taxes, you're going to end up paying them. If you've never been in tax trouble before, know that the states are much meaner than the IRS --- pay them first.
Actually, they didn't.
> They do know how much you owe.
You'd think so, but they sent me a threatening letter (actually they sent it to my parents' address) saying that I better pay up, but according to their computer system I owed $0.00 in taxes, $0.00 in interest, and about $12 in penalties. You get amnesty on the penalties, so...