If you are an American citizen your income regardless of source is suppossed to be reported to the IRS.

If you have a clearance and the IRS finds that you didn't report the income... you are the nail waiting to get hammered....

2 words....Tax Evasion..... remember Willie Nelson and the guy who one the first Survivor.

Yep. I despise the wage tax but I understand why it is there and why it has to be. Paying taxes is just part of life. Even the Army pays taxes once they pass beyond the same exclusion threshold that we have. Well, that's according to my buddies on the O-corps who make enough to discover that fact.