Occasionally I'll hear some leader in a suit say that the US has a voluntary tax system, or that voluntary taxpayer compliance is a foundational principle of the US tax system, and that always sounds like a sick joke.

But here's this guy who just doesn't file, and nothing bad happens?

And now I see the IRS has a brand new program to start sending letters to tens of thousands of people with more than a million in income who never file at all [0].

They're just starting this now?

I feel like such a chump.

[0] https://www.irs.gov/newsroom/irs-launches-new-effort-aimed-a...