How do you guys feel about paying taxes?
Do you not pay?
Do you partly pay?
Do you pay everything you owe your government?
How much time and energy and money are you willing to spend avoiding tax? How far do you think the law can bend without breaking?
On a philosophical level, are taxes worth paying?
I'm trying to figure out if there is some sort of 'red pill' one can take on the issue.
The only way I know of truly avoiding tax is to be a citizen of a nation where you don't pay tax if you're out of the country for 6 months. People who work on cruise ships apparently routinely take 7-8 month contracts for this reason, to prove they were at sea (where no nation can levy a tax) for tax purposes. They end keeping all their salary.
But it seems to me, no matter what you do, someone somewhere is going to look at your wealth and tax it, unless you have high powered political connections.
Your thoughts?
Do you not pay?
Do you partly pay?
Do you pay everything you owe your government?
How much time and energy and money are you willing to spend avoiding tax? How far do you think the law can bend without breaking?
On a philosophical level, are taxes worth paying?
I'm trying to figure out if there is some sort of 'red pill' one can take on the issue.
The only way I know of truly avoiding tax is to be a citizen of a nation where you don't pay tax if you're out of the country for 6 months. People who work on cruise ships apparently routinely take 7-8 month contracts for this reason, to prove they were at sea (where no nation can levy a tax) for tax purposes. They end keeping all their salary.
But it seems to me, no matter what you do, someone somewhere is going to look at your wealth and tax it, unless you have high powered political connections.
Your thoughts?