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Originally Posted by Xazy
I have a family member, due to I think partly due to a stroke, and depression has not paid taxes or filed them in years. He really has nothing to his name, except for a few thousand dollars and a car. He has been putting his life back together over the past 19 months, and finally one tax agency caught up with him (for not paying in NY State in 2002 which is ironic since he did not live there, and now has to prove that one false, but he definitely owes other people and it is going to be a big bill). I plan on talking to my accountant but he is out of the country until next week, and would love if anyone has advice/thought, besides yelling at the person for stupidity, since the problem is 10x worse now then it would have been then.
Thank you in advance.
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In Canada, if you owe significantly from years past and may face hefty fines or even jail, don't talk to your accountant or the CRA (the equivalent of the IRS in the USA). Talk to your lawyer - reason being everything said to the lawyer is privileged, whereas whatever you tell your accountant is not.