I noticed the "this is legal" claim in the article, but surely taxes become a huge problem? Even if you're not working, you'd end up either failing to file or revealing that you're still alive.
Couldn't you just file taxes anyways? Would you suffer legal repercussions if you tried to file taxes and they were rejected because you were dead? As previous cases indicate, being found to be alive by the government isn't always adequate to cause them to declare you to be alive again, so you could be both dead and a taxpayer.
You don't have to file Federal taxes if you make less than $10,300 per year.
Re:Faking your death
by nommm-nommm on Friday September 16, 2016 @02:51PM
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This isn't true, you don't have to file taxes if you make less income than the standard deduction plus one exemption which changes from year to year and also is also dependent on your age and your filing status and the threshold is different for unearned income.
But having even a $1 life insurance policy, or $1 in debt, or accessing $1 worth of a reputation-based benefit, might be enough to demonstrate that intent. Most people in the US could not fake their own death without criminal or civil consequences.
We no longer have the "move to the New World" or "move out to the frontier" reset buttons that previous generations had (nor even the "get sentenced to transportation" and "claim sanctuary" buttons).