Which Superheroes are guilty of Tax Fraud?

[Guy Gardener]

You have to accurately report your earnings, report your expenses and then pay your fair share, or figure out a clever legal way to pay less than your fair share.

Batman obviously, but I'm watching a Jem and the Hograms fan film, and there's a record producer who is secretly a top selling musician, who probably donates her imaginary income to a home for wayward girls.

No seriously an orphanage with 12 teens is given 40 million dollars a year, in the 80s, and nothing hokey is going on?

I suppose we can give Batman a pass, but Blue Beetle or Green Arrow spent just as much money on their caves, and maybe they paid for everything with money stolen from drug dealers.... Although they both went bankrupt, and the IRS already got their pound of flesh from Ollie when they repossessed the Arrow Mobile.

 

[the G-man]

This reminds me of that Silver Age story where Superman was audited for, among other things, all those lumps of coal he squeezed into diamonds.

 

[Mr. Adventure]

I remember thinking who is paying for all this when Hawkman's plane came out of the ground in Black Adam.

 

[Set Harth]

Jem and the Hograms

Tell me this was on purpose.

 

[Guy Gardener]

I remember thinking who is paying for all this when Hawkman's plane came out of the ground in Black Adam.

If he's an alien, with superior tech to hack or print, money is not a problem.

If he's 5 thousand years old, money is even less of a problem,

 

[Guy Gardener]

Tell me this was on purpose.

Nope.

 

[Nerys Myk]

You have to accurately report your earnings, report your expenses and then pay your fair share, or figure out a clever legal way to pay less than your fair share.

Batman obviously, but I'm watching a Jem and the Hograms fan film, and there's a record producer who is secretly a top selling musician, who probably donates her imaginary income to a home for wayward girls.

No seriously an orphanage with 12 teens is given 40 million dollars a year, in the 80s, and nothing hokey is going on?

I suppose we can give Batman a pass, but Blue Beetle or Green Arrow spent just as much money on their caves, and maybe they paid for everything with money stolen from drug dealers.... Although they both went bankrupt, and the IRS already got their pound of flesh from Ollie when they repossessed the Arrow Mobile.

What's the process for declaring property? How specific do you have to be? Is the cave technically part of the Wayne Manor and declared with that?

 

[Guy Gardener]

What's the process for declaring property? How specific do you have to be? Is the cave technically part of the Wayne Manor and declared with that?

It's what is in the cave, also it would have cost millions to get dozens of engineers down there in secret (shades of breaking bad?) to add structural support so that the Manor doesn't fall on their heads the first time Riddler lobs a grenade into the submarine pen.

The atomic pile in the 1966 series was illegal on the level of a war crime, meanwhile buying uranium on the black market is not cheap, or stealing it from his own companies is again a huge crime that could put him in jail forever.

Although, the entire point of uranium, is that a little bit lasts practically forever, since it has a half life of 4.5 billion years.

 

[Jayson1]

It's what is in the cave, also it would have cost millions to get dozens of engineers down there in secret (shades of breaking bad?) to add structural support so that the Manor doesn't fall on their heads the first time Riddler lobs a grenade into the submarine pen.

The atomic pile in the 1966 series was illegal on the level of a war crime, meanwhile buying uranium on the black market is not cheap, or stealing it from his own companies is again a huge crime that could put him in jail forever.

Although, the entire point of uranium, is that a little bit lasts practically forever, since it has a half life of 4.5 billion years.

Now I have the image of terrorist Libyans chasing after Bruce in the Batmobile at Twin Pines Mall.

 

[Guy Gardener]

What's the process for declaring property? How specific do you have to be? Is the cave technically part of the Wayne Manor and declared with that?

On Ghost's last week they had Al Capone Guest star in a flash back set in 1928. Some one says "For God's sake Al pay your taxes, before you get into real trouble."

His problem really wasn't unpaid taxes, it was unpaid taxes on undeclared earnings, which he could never declare, without admitting to a scope of many nefarious crimes that would put him in jail for decades. Catch 22.

Batman 66 is deputized officer of the GCPD, which means that legally he must be a person, and has probably been given a social security number.

Batman 89 mark III had a ##cking credit card.

Although Ra's Al Ghul in the comics and the animated series, tracked down the Detective's alter ego by looking into who was buying all the jet fuel in Gotham, and following the money back to Bruce Wayne. So Bruce is paying tax on the jet fuel but misrepresenting where and when the jet fuel is being used.

Paying your taxes indirectly is how Michael Cohen went to Jail.

 

[Bynar0110]

Tony Stark?

 

[Guy Gardener]

Tony Stark?

Depends which Iron Man, and Which Era, you're talking about.

Iron Man as his body guard, or Iron Man as himself, are on the pay roll and it'd all be on the level, even if he doesn't want to patent his tech, because that's just an idiot's guide for A.I.M. to take over the world.

 

[Jayson1]

One issue is being a Superhero is technically not a job. Nobody pays them to fight crime so in theory can you really tax them for something they are doing for free?

 

[Bynar0110]

I got another one that doesn't pay taxes the Punisher.

 

[Guy Gardener]

One issue is being a Superhero is technically not a job. Nobody pays them to fight crime so in theory can you really tax them for something they are doing for free?

You haven't read the Avengers Charter recently?

1000 bucks per week for active members.

100 bucks a month per month for reserve members.

Any salary not collected goes into a retirement fund.

Besides in Batwoman (the tv show), her mum found Bruce Wayne's bat-Slush fund and put her up on charges of fraud. Bruce Wayne steals from his board and his stockholders to pay for Batman, rather than using his "personal" fortune, which would be tax evasion since he would have to lie about what he is spending his money on.

Whenever he buys a new Bat mobile, Wayne claims that he is buying another Van Gough painting, which is money laundering and fraud and tax evasion.

 

[the G-man]

Whenever he buys a new Bat mobile, Wayne claims that he is buying another Van Gough painting, which is money laundering and fraud and tax evasion.

You were the one they used against us, Bruce. The one who played it rough. When the noise started from the parents’ groups and the sub-committee called us for questioning... you were the one who laughed... that scary laugh of yours. “Sure, we’re criminals”, you said. “We’ve always been criminals”. “We have to be criminals”

 

[Guy Gardener]

I got another one that doesn't pay taxes the Punisher.

Technically Frank is a devotee of Ares, the God, so he does not have to pay taxes, which goes double for Moon Knight... Although a church of a peculiar faith has to be officially recognized by the IRS to become Tax Exempt.

The Punisher was also an Angel from Heaven for a while, but we don't talk about that.

Also the Punisher is a super villain.

 

[auntiehill]

I got another one that doesn't pay taxes the Punisher.

Good luck trying to collect.

 

[Jayson1]

You know I think Captain America most be old enough to collect social security and military benefits. Bucky I would think also would get disability for the arm alone. Then you count the brainwashing. You know what I also wonder. In "WandaVision" who was paying and paying with what to keep the water and electricity on. I know magic was used but the people are still humans and need real food and water to live.

 

[Guy Gardener]

You know I think Captain America most be old enough to collect social security and military benefits. Bucky I would think also would get disability for the arm alone. Then you count the brainwashing. You know what I also wonder. In "WandaVision" who was paying and paying with what to keep the water and electricity on. I know magic was used but the people are still humans and need real food and water to live.

Cap got a cool million dollar pay out in the 80s for time served in the ice.

He set up a help/tip line, with the money, so that real people could tell him about supervillains who needed to be punched.

Then the IRS showed up for their cut, but he'd spent it all.

Then the Commission for Superhuman affairs (a government department working for Reagan), asked for the money back unless Captain America did things their way, so he quit & gave the shield back, and they hired John Walker to be the new Captain America, which lead to alarming consequences.