This is a not a public poll. No one else can see your handle. I'm just interested in only blackjack results before expenses.
Losing Year: $-0- and Less
Won: $1 to $500
Won: $501 to $1,000
Won: $1,001 to $2,500
Won: $2,501 to $5,000
Won: $5,001 to $10,000
Won: $10,001 to $25,000
Won: $25,001 to $50,000
Won: $50,001 to $75,000
Won: More Than $75,000
Hopefully, you are being honest and paying income taxes on your winnings. However, when I signed up for this site, I never gave my real name or my real email address. The only way the government is going to find out who I am is by tracing my internet provider address which Norm does have, and I assume the government could easily get if they wanted to either by a court order requiring Norm to reveal it or by simply hacking Norm's site. I have no question that if the government wanted to find out who I am they could easily due it.
However, I'm not concerned one bit because I do include my gambling income in my taxes. In fact in my case I will be reporting more than this poll indicates because I also made a couple thousand dollars in free play income which this poll did not address. This poll was only for blackjack and you could of easily have had other gambling wins or losses.
However, I'm curious if Norm ever had a request by the goverment to reveal personal information.
Last edited by Midwest Player; 01-02-2015 at 12:16 PM.
Damn Right, they know!! Where do you think we live? The rest of the world does not have governments that have the desire or ability to find out everything they want about their citizens or citizens as meek as the USA. The citizens of other countries can overthrow their governments.
Even if that were the case, they'd have to prove it, beyond mere embellishment on a public domain on the interwebs of all things. Hell, ZK might claim 4k for the year from his 5 minutes of make believe play, but he might in truth be a pimple faced teenager who couldn't yet set foot in a casino, and the jury is still out on that. Point is, if you claimed a, say, 50k year win on this forum in this poll, the IRS can't just take that at face value and hit you for it. The only way they can "pinch" you for anything, is if there's a paper trail behind it that actually validates the claim, such as bank statements and such in correlation with casino visits and so forth, even then, they'd have to dig pretty hard on it to find something.
Wouldn't worry about the IRS, ever, especially so if you claim it.
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