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When Discovering Past Tax Mistakes Creates Present Dilemmas

I accidentally found a major error on my tax return from two years ago that saved me thousands and now I do not know if I should report it or pretend I never noticed.

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More people experience this than they realize.

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The discovery of unintentional benefit creates a conflict between self-interest and moral obligation to correct past errors.

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