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The IRS is a federal agency and most itemized deductions accepted on your tax return as sent to the IRS do not depend whether you have moved during the year. You might need to pro-rate the deductions for sales tax if you use this alternative to the deduction for state and local income taxes) if you moved to a different state during the year.Some states base their state income tax return on the entries made on the corresponding federal return - in this case you will need to check the state directions for how to adjust itemization if you only lived in the state for part of the year.

It's not very difficult. There's a disconnect between income and wealth, which is why Dr. Thomas Stanley, author of The Millionaire Next Door, distinguishes between two categories: Income Sheet Affluent and Balance Sheet Affluent. You can be very wealthy with a low income that will keep you at the 15% level. I'm only going to talk about federal taxes here.With the 2013 tax brackets, "For earnings between $8,700.00 and $35,350, you'll pay 15% plus $870.00." (From Federal Income Tax Brackets 2013)The standard deduction for 2013 is $5,950 per filer and you get a personal exemption of $3,900. (From IRS: Itemizing vs. Standard Deduction: Six Facts to Help You Choose and Annual Inflation Adjustments for 2013). That means that the upper limit of income that will keep you in the 15% bracket is $45,200. If you hit that upper limit, after taxes ($4,867.50), you'll have $40,332.50.It all comes down to your spending habits/cash outflow and living on $40,332.50 is actually pretty simple.I would highly recommend buying a house/apartment in full to not need cash for mortgage/rent. You'll still have housing expenses because you still need cash for maintenance and property taxes, but not as much cash as you would otherwise be paying on a monthly basis.This recommendation is completely optional, but it's worth looking into moving to a college town, which arecheap to live in but also provide cultural, sporting and educational experiences on par with those of big cities.To make the "cheaper" argument more concrete:Moving from Los Angeles to Bloomington, Ind., for example, you'd save 15% on groceries, 61% on housing, 8% on utilities, 14% on transportation and 13% on health care each year. A working person needs to earn only $47,505 a year to live there as well as they did for $75,000 a year in L.A.(From Dan Kadlec at TIME: The Five Big Questions About Retirement - TIME)The federal tax brackets are the same across the United States, even though the cost of living in some areas is dramatically less than living in huge metropolitan centers such as Los Angeles or NYC.To read more about spending below $40,332.50, I recommend reading Getting Rich: from Zero to Hero in One Blog Post and Exposed! The MMM Family’s 2012 Spending!, which both discuss spending habits that will put you safely in the 15% tax bracket.

I have studied tax law and the federal tax code for the last 40 years for my own affairs. I am probably 0.001% as complex as Trump’s tax returns. The congress and the media have no legal authority to determine if someone “cheats” on the tax return. For the last 30–40 years Trump has been in the special category of the super rich that get audited every year. The IRS has their elite investigative unit reviewing everything for all of the people in his category. He has the best tax accountants and tax attorneys that stay abreast of all the tax laws for all the states and countries that they operate in. At the high end - it is extremely rare that someone actually “Cheats” on their tax return. It is highly likely that they take advantage of the tax laws that are in effect at the time they are conducting their business and they reduce their tax to its lowest level possible - legally - as any sane person would do.There are 2 categories that are very important in the tax world - mistakes and fraud. You can easily make mistakes by counting something as an expense item that the IRS later finds they think is a capital item and should have been expensed over several years and you deducted it as an ordinary operating expense. That usually results in you having to pay the back taxes and interest. No real problem and it happens all the time. You may have had some minor income reported by other people that you missed. For example, you are a contractor and maybe you had 200+ 1099 forms but a couple of customers didn’t fill one out and you did and the IRS needs all the numbers to match in the computer and they may want to see what happened and understand it. After they research it they may decide against the way you did it or not.The second category is FRAUD. TAX FRAUD is a crime. Like you see many of the people in congress now have tax liens against them for millions of dollars. By law the IRS can lock them up or work out some kind of payment plan or settlement terms. Fraud means you willingly and knowingly set up a scheme to defraud the government. If you remember one of the main charges against Michael Avenatti the alleged crooked lawyer that represented the porn lady - one of the main charges is tax fraud. From the reports - he is alleged to have just up and stopped filing tax returns about 8 or 9 years ago. He stopped paying federal withholding on his employees - but he was taking it from them. He stopped paying social security payments. He is alleged to have just kept the money and used it to party and buy cars and things he wanted. THAT would be fraud if the IRS proves it in court.Fraud is BAD - not just as a crime but Fraud allows the IRS to audit you back to when you cut grass as a teenager if they so desire. This is why almost no sane business person would commit fraud. The risk is just too high. The IRS can tie you up in audits for many years and levy massive fines and penalties and put you in jail if you resist. The reward for defrauding the government is so small compared to the price you would pay when caught that you just would not want to risk it. Maybe you remember a few years ago when the IRS went after all the Swiss banks and other countries that allowed people to keep fortunes stashed away in their accounts and the IRS succeeded and gave all those rich people immunity from prosecution if they would voluntarily confess and pay just their back taxes for the money they had stashed away. The IRS is after the MONEY more than they want to lock people up.