why is tax avoidance morally wrong? why should we raise awareness about tax avoidance?

Question

The question says it all. How does tax avoidance affect working class people?

Answer 1

Taxation and morality ?

Never !

Those two words belong in seperate Buildings,not the same question.

Answer 2

The hassle with tax avoidance will not be so much that it's morally mistaken however that it's anything that within the principal is exercised only by means of these with the manner to pay the taxes within the first place. Most individuals will not be ready to preclude tax considering the fact that it's deducted at source and what little possibility they have to hinder tax is restricted to probably a few kilos of undeclared interest on their meager savings. It's this imbalance in vigor delivered to the belief that the same men and women fending off tax are the equal ones who are responsible for the monetary mess that afflicts lots of the prosperous international locations of the world that has given rise to the challenge of "morality". Thus morality of tax avoidance is more about the imbalance of financial vigor than a query of ethics. Seeking to evaluate tax avoidance to site visitors jams is a nonsense. Of course humans will preclude a site visitors jam if they are able to. However what a few motorway the place the traffic jam is on the within lane and folks are making use of the core lane to push in to the queue closer to entrance? How do people feel then? I'm definite that they are not joyful about such behaviour. Apparently, the predicament of the morality of tax avoidance certainly not raises its head in situations the place the general populace are also committing the same movements for illustration Italy and Greece.

Answer 3

Sadly, you are wrong. The question doesn't say it all. It is a question not an answer. Two, in fact.

Taxation has always been resented and when possible avoided. Governments must raise money to spend on their programmes for the nation. Tax avoidance means that the money the government hoped to raise will not be raised and some of the programmes will suffer. Mainly, those assisting the poor because they are the most costly.

Philosophically, morals and ethic would play a role. Practically, those considerations are ignored.

Answer 4

There's quite a difference between a moral wrong and a legal wrong.



The theory of tax works like this..... A party such as a state or an actor who can exercise the writ of their law becomes competent to collect taxes.



Once upon a time it was kings, churches, mafias and persons who could coerce others to give them a portion of their earnings which would collect taxes for their own private uses. This of course was all non-productive accumulation and quite pointless and led to various wars and revolutions.. such as in France and Russia etc.



Later taxation became part of social contract, particularly as the kings, churches and mafias were threatened by the rise of communism and the collective bargaining power of the taxed population. The tax collectors decided to use some of the revenue collected to re-invest in the public that paid it. That's what the NHS and the growth of the citizen orientated state through the post-war period was all about.



This situation slowly disintegrated and today we live in a World with no viable public collectives or Russian communists etc. Simultaneously the State is withering away and multinational powerful corporations are becoming the main economic players with coercive abilities. Corporations in a sense collect taxation from the public through legalised "unjust enrichments" perhaps akin to tributes and have enough bargaining power to avoid paying taxes to any governments.. such as the recent Starbucks case showed.



In the same fashion governments can only exercise coercive power against citizens rather than corporations and claim revenues for the sustenance of the state. Notably since the state cannot act against corporations in favour of its citizens the state becomes redundant. (Think of the mafia don who cannot protect his patch from other mafias encroaching).



Since the citizens and public are not prepared to form collective bargaining bodies or interest groups anymore (because of ideological perversions and illiteracy) and there is no threat of Russian Communism etc. States do not feel the need to re-invest any proportion of revenues collected into the citizenry and rely on raw coercive power and propagating falsehoods and obscurantisms only.



Additionally States suffer from regulatory capture in as much as corporations and in most cases just crudely act in their favour.... (UK v EU on Bankers' bonuses)... This tends to happen because the extent of capture is so huge that the competence to coerce the citizen into pay taxes is given as a prebend by the corporations to the most preferential persons supposedly representing the State such as can be seen in the UK in particular.



Tax avoidance thus becomes a more sensible and rational option for the citizens and the public.

Anti-avoidance propaganda being promulgated these days by governments amongst the public are actually utter nonsense considering that corporations and the various rent-seeking and political beneficiaries of the captured state (Republicans, Conservatives etc.) hardly pay any tax at all themselves and control the vast majority of wealth, land and capital.



The very suggestion of any taxes in its entirety becomes totally unconscionable if not only immoral.



More realistically.... is that in countries like the UK rather than tax, the state/king/beneficiaries that own all the means of a country's production.....distribute the profits amongst the citizens. This happens to some extent in some rentier economies like Saudi Arabia and the UAE and some socialist states. The advantage here is that taxation need not be avoided as it is either minimal or non-existent.

Answer 5

Since Federal Income Tax is illegally levied, you cannot immorally ir Illegally avoid it.

Although the IRS convicts those several examples every now and again of wealthy people, in a kangaroo court... and even jail some, it doesn't render the process legal.



The 16th Amendment to the Constitution was never properly ratified by the states and therefore it is not law.

federal Income Tax does NOT go to run the government, but is gobbled up by the Federal Reserve Crime Syndicate...



The Federal Reserve Bank is no more Federal than Federal Express is Federal... it is a privately owned for profit banking consortium owned by members of an elite group of people, most notably The Rockefeller's, Bilderbergs, Rothschild's, to name just a few.

You may have heard them referred to as the Illuminati... those behind the takeover of the globe...as the NWO (New World Order)

Answer 6

Personally, I think tax collection is morally wrong. So surely it depends upon the individual as to what they consider to be ''morally wrong''?



As a libertarian, I prefer to stay away from arguments which invoke morality because it's not an easy argument to make against someone with different moral beliefs. I simply prefer to point towards the fact that the state is essentially an extortion racket. Often, people resist this point emotionally, but fundamentally, it's a point they can't refute because the state is demonstrably an extortion racket.



Invoking morality simply muddies the debate when you can make an easy point without needing to do so. As for tax avoidance being immoral, I don't believe so, but I don't believe morality exists in an objective sense anyway.

Answer 7

Hello Khad,



There are two terms to which the media refer in news reports:



1) Tax evasion.



2) Tax avoidance.



These two terms are entirely different to each other.



In law, "tax evasion" means dishonestly and therefore in breach of tax law, failing to pay the correct amount in tax.



Also according to law, "tax avoidance" is lawful.

It means to lawfully reduce your tax liability.

For example, in the United Kingdom, you can open an "ISA" savings account, which is an account upon which tax is not levied.



There has been recent criticism of some companies which use tax "avoidance" schemes by which they lawfully reduce their tax liability.

In these cases, there has, by definition, been no loss of tax to the state, since such schemes simply comply with what the law requires!



The best that can be said about tax "avoidance", is that if law makers wish to increase the tax raised, then it is up to them to change the law.



It is law makers who make possible tax "avoidance" schemes, and therefore entirely their responsibility.



I hope this helps.



Regards,



Robert.

Answer 8

Is it? I'd say it's the system that requires scrutinising , a system that appears to favour the better off when it comes to paying the bare minimum, if anything at all, in some cases. They need to take the loopholes out of these moral dilemmas.

Answer 9

Avoiding tax means the government recieve less money, if it wasn't a crime to skip taxes, everyone would do it and the government wouldn't have half as much money. A broke government is NEVER good

Answer 10

It is morally wrong because it's theft by those who can afford to pay their taxes but don't, against those who cannot afford to pay their taxes, but still do. We all understand why taxes need to be paid. If we are to be all in it together, then let's all, both rich and poor, be in it together. What right do the wealthy have to reap the benefits and comfort, and the majority carry the ill-afforded burden.

Answer 11

Its all about language isn't it, avoidance doesn't sound as bad as cheat does it?



Juxtapose two different well known phrases," tax avoidance" and "benefit cheat".



If they become "benefit avoider" and a "tax cheat" it influences what you feel about both.



Personally I prefer to call them Tax dodgers, just as I prefer to call the 'aspirational' greedy and 'entrepreneurs' business people,

Answer 12

Make tax avoidance illegal........sorted.

Answer 13

The goverment wants its money

Answer 14

yes it is morally wrong .. Those avoiders shgould be ashamed of themselves ,, put others before self

Answer 15

We should all pay our fair share.