I’m anti-income tax, or indeed any direct tax, and I’ve spent my working life doing my utmost to pay as little of it as possible.
Now you may think that tax avoidance is morally wrong, but I consider it not only my right but my moral duty, as far as possible, not to support a system with which I profoundly disagree.
For me, income tax makes no sense. Surely people should be incentivised to work, invest, and employ others but no, we make it costly for employers to create employment and we incentivise people not to work by subsidising them and taxing the worker to pay for it. And worse, progressive tax rates mean that should you be financially rewarded for hard work or upskilling, a larger proportion of your hard-earned is appropriated by the government. The harder you work, the more you pay. Now how does that compute?
When I ran a legal services business in Ireland in the 1980s and 90s with over 50 staff, we had more fiddles going than a symphony orchestra. We ducked and we dived and well, let's just say cash was king. But one by one the loopholes were closed in the government's inexorable hunt for taxes.
As it stands in Ireland now, in many cases it is more profitable to collect social security than to take a job and pay the associated taxes, a predictable outcome to paying people not to work and taxing them when they do.
And to those who would contend that all of us must contribute to financing the follies of government, I say there are far more equitable ways than taxing income, but of course, these would not prove so burdensome for the working man.
There I will rest my case without touching upon the immorality of forcibly, yes forcibly, depriving a man of the fruits of his labour, of compelling people to fund with their time and effort things such as war, to which they are morally opposed, or indeed addressing the question of the need for income tax at all considering that of late, governments seem intent on printing money into oblivion.
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