When you file a 1040 income tax form, or any federal tax form, you give up the right to your most private and sensitive financial information to the IRS to use against you.
When you sign (not the IRS) an IRS Form 1040 income tax "confession" form, you state under oath that you owe the IRS money!
You give up your Fifth Amendment constitutional right to remain silent and not give any information to the government that they could use to put you in prison. You unwittingly increase your chances of going to prison for taxes when you sign under penalties of perjury that your 1040 form is "true, correct, and complete".
Attempting to evade or defeat tax
(tax evasion)
Filing of "fraudulent and false statements"
Filing fraudulent returns, statements, or other documents
You risk going to prison for up to
for each year you file a 1040 or any other tax form!