Which Superheroes are guilty of Tax Fraud?

[Jayson1]

How?

Without admitting their dual identity, any attempt by Bruce Wayne to pay Batman's taxes, indirectly, is tax fraud.

Batman had honor and he was not going to cheat and not pay his fair share of taxes. What he likely did was look at how much money was spent on buying all the stuff that he needed to make his Bat stuff. Lets say it all came out to 20 million dollars. He would then go buy something else for 20 million dollars just so the government could tax it and gets it's fair cut of 20 million dollars.

 

[Guy Gardener]

Gambit?
Bat Mite?

Gambit has Diplomatic Immunity these days as a big wig from Kraokoa.

Bat-Mite doesn't work or buy anything, or pay anyone anything, or own anything. He is untaxable. Although when some mook wishes for a million dollars, and Bat-Mite grants that wish, well, that is problematic.

 

[Nerys Myk]

Gambit has Diplomatic Immunity these days as a big wig from Kraokoa.

Bat-Mite doesn't work or buy anything, or pay anyone anything. He is untaxable. Although when some mook wishes for a million dollars, and Bat-Mite grants that wish, well, that is problematic.

Bat-Mite is an obsessive fan-boy.

 

[Guy Gardener]

Batman had honor and he was not going to cheat and not pay his fair share of taxes. What he likely did was look at how much money was spent on buying all the stuff that he needed to make his Bat stuff. Lets say it all came out to 20 million dollars. He would then go buy something else for 20 million dollars just so the government could tax it and gets it's fair cut of 20 million dollars.

That's called money laundering.

Which is illegal.

 

[Nerys Myk]

Like I said, Bruce declares everything. The paperclips, the nuclear reactor, the costumes, the car, the shark repellent..everything. He just leaves off the "Bat" prefix.

 

[Bynar0110]

Does Thor get a pass since he's a god?

 

[Nerys Myk]

Does Thor get a pass since he's a god?

He basically a foreigner, He need to worry more about his immigration status than taxes.

 

[Jayson1]

That's called money laundering.

Which is illegal.

Yes but he is laundering the money to the government. First he lets them tax the property and then resales the property and then gives that money to charity. While technically he cheating a little for the Bat stuff he is making up for it by basically spending 40 million dollars to make sure the government at least gets it cut of the 20 million it would be owed if he didn't have to keep that spending a secret.

 

[Bynar0110]

Not to go off topic, but I wonder if Superman and Clark Kent has to file taxes separately?

 

[Nerys Myk]

Not to go off topic, but I wonder if Superman and Clark Kent has to file taxes separately?

I guess technically Superman is self-employed. But does he generate any actual income?

 

[Jayson1]

I don't think Clark makes money off of Superman and also Superman isn't even a US citizen so he wouldn't be taxable anyways. I guess you could say his place of residence is the Fortress of Solitude and that is not on America soil, what with it being in Antarctica. But if we accept Clark is Superman I wonder if he is breaking the law by owning a second home in Antarctica.

 

[Nerys Myk]

I don't think Clark makes money off of Superman and also Superman isn't even a US citizen so he wouldn't be taxable anyways. I guess you could say his place of residence is the Fortress of Solitude and that is not on America soil, what with it being in Antarctica. But if we accept Clark is Superman I wonder if he is breaking the law by owning a second home in Antarctica.

The Arctic, at least in the Silver Age.

 

[Mike Farley]

It was in the Antarctic Post Crisis. It's also been in the Bermuda Triangle I believe.

 

[Gingerbread Demon]

He basically a foreigner, He need to worry more about his immigration status than taxes.

As would Superman and the rest of the Kryptonians

 

[Jayson1]

I wonder why Superman doesn't put the Fortress on the moon. It would prevent Lex Luthor or anyone else from finding it someday. I assume he could seal it off and have oxygen if he needed to bring humans there like Lois.

 

[Gingerbread Demon]

I wonder why Superman doesn't put the Fortress on the moon. It would prevent Lex Luthor or anyone else from finding it someday. I assume he could seal it off and have oxygen if he needed to bring humans there like Lois.

Why would he do that? it's not practical

 

[Turd Ferguson]

Does Bruce Wayne pay taxes on the Batmobile? If he zips through a red light, and there's a camera snapping photos for the Gotham PD to mail tickets, who do the tickets go to? Who pays them? Does he have EZ Pass for any toll roads surrounding the city? Does he use any expenditures on equipment (new Batmobiles, Batsuits, Batarangs, grappling hooks) as a work expenditure, and thus, a tax write-off?

 

[Guy Gardener]

The Arctic is made up of Canada, Greenland, Iceland, Norway, Sweden, Finland, Russia, and the United States.

The territory Kal has claimed may be land stolen from any of those countries, or he found a crack of contested tundra which Brezhnev and Carter already decided not to go to war over.

 

[Jayson1]

Why would he do that? it's not practical

So super villains couldn't locate it. I mean I guess some could but for many it would be hard to get to the moon to exploit the place. Or even stops any governments stumbling on the place. I always wondered why it couldn't be spotted with satellites. Does the Fortress come with any kind of cloaking shielding or anything?

 

[Guy Gardener]

Why would he do that? it's not practical

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Remember when the key to Fortress was the size of the Chrysler Building? Or made from a super dense material that only Superman was strong enough to pick up?