Wonder if this would work if I sent a “notice” of my death to the IRS

boston.com

A local man who faked his own death to beat several court cases has been sentenced to three years in prison. Michael Rosen was sentenced Thursday in Salem Superior Court after pleading guilty to forgery charges. Authorities say the 43-year-old Rosen walked into court in July pretending to be his brother and handed a clerk a death certificate showing that he had died of “cardio-respiratory’’ arrest and was buried in Temple “Isreal’’ Cemetery. It worked at first, as a judge dismissed Rosen’s cases. But Rosen’s probation officer became suspicious because he had recently seen Rosen in good health. Rosen had made the fake death certificate on a computer