[macerico]

Well, the effort to disappear into obscurity is harder than it sounds or looks.

Chiefly, I have three hurdles I'm dealing with.

1. I had to use my SSN to get an EIN for a LLC I'm using for my means of living. The "client" pays my LLC. The LLC pays me after deducting all "business expenses." I work for it as an independent contractor. This, at least, lets me take advantage of putting all reasonable and necessary "business expenses" against my gross and letting me be compensated for my input with whatever is left over. Result, lower tax burden.

2. If you want to just stop filing tax returns, how do you do that? I get the point that if you're paying $$$ to the IRS, not filing doesn't mean you are trying to evade taxes, you just aren't filing anymore. This means they keep whatever gets taken from you....even if they aren't entitled to it.

3. How do you make your permanent mailing address go down the "memory hole." With the junk mail I'm getting, I realize it's true that the US Postal Service sells your forwarding information to people. I got a P.O. Box and have all needful mail going "care of" that box, but now I need to submit a forwarding address that makes everything else go bye, bye to Neverland. I'm having trouble working that out. Finding a "dead end" address to permanently forward my junk mail is hard to come by.

Any tips?

P.S. On my LLC idea, I'm weighing the idea of just letting it die at the end of the year and make a new one (NM perhaps) to keep things in the air. I'm inclined to keep the LLC's bank account open so that a business can receive money and cut checks (all I need is a stamp making any check received payable to the LLC for deposit only). Even though the EIN of the LLC is linked to my SSN, IIRC the LLC's assets are separate from anything under my SSN, and the LLC's account does not have my SSN directly listed on it. The EIN/SSN cross-reference would have to be done elsewhere.

P.P.S. I did find a mail service in Oregon that lets you rent a box for $10/month. I could do that for "neverland" but the snafu is WHAT IF something important gets sent there. They do have a forwarding service, but I don't want my junk mail sent to me. I wonder if they will only send something if it looks important/official to my c/o P.O. Box where I get my normal mail. Sounds like a plan or bad idea?