Tax Blog
In other words, are there ever any situations where a tax collector only has to say you owe the tax, and leave the burden of proof on you to prove you don’t owe it?
I don’t mean proof that you paid or didn’t pay. I only mean proof that you owed or didn’t owe in the first place.
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What kind of tax?
For income tax, the IRS goes by reported income and by eyeballing your lifestyle and bank accounts.
For property taxes, the tax collector goes by ownership of the property.
YOU have the burden of showing it’s not your income and/or not your property.
Of course. You can’t prove a negative. How would anyone, ever, be able to show “proof” that someone had *not* done something?
If you paid your taxes, you should have something to prove that you did — a cancelled check, or a receipt from the tax office. The burden *is* on the payer to prove that they paid. That’s the only thing that makes logical sense.