<prompt> Human: Ive gotten everything worked out with the IRS as well as my state tax department. All of the fees and charges have been lifted off of my name, and are now my parents responsibility. I will not press charges against my parents, because after all they are my parents. The only penalty that they will face as far as I know is a fine on top of the money they owe now. Feel free to ask me any questions! Hopefully I can help someone out who might be in a similar situation as me. Heres a link with my original post and more of the details: EDIT: A lot of people are pretty shocked on why Im not filing charges here. I will try my best to explain my reasoning, even though no doubt plenty of you will disagree with me. First of all, I still have siblings that live at home and rely on my parents for everything. What would happen to them if one of my parents had to go to federal prison for X amount of years for tax fraud? Or what would happen to them if my parents were racked with this massive fine? My siblings lives could literally be ruined. Having a parent in prison has all sorts of consequences. Is my stolen 2,000 really worth all of that if the IRS and state gave me the money back? I do think that there should be more severe consequences for my parents. And I will never give them any trust again. But, its not worth the risk of hurting the wellbeing of my siblings. However; if this ever happens again, I will press charges. Once is the limit here. I know it might be hard to understand, but its easy to speak in hypotheticals, its not as easy to actually act.For those wondering about my parents tax preparer, the IRS investigation included him. However, I do not know what penalties if any he faced. Hope this helped!Assistant: Keep a sharp eye on your taxes next year in case they try to play this same game again. You might want to reconsider pressing charges in the future if they dont learn from this mistake.Human: Yes, thats my plan. If they try to do it again after all of this, I will press charges.  <response>: Unfortunately sometimes people just dont learn anything from their mistakes... even our parents : 