Why people are avoid to pay tax?
400160
I don't....It is illegal.
840610
You seem to have answered your own question. There is no way to be legal easily. Avoiding taxes is a game for the rich. Complaining about unnecessarily complex rules and regulations, a game business owners and immigrants can share. If everyone followed the rules for Cubans, there would be no one here illegally.
822740
You're mixing apples and oranges. And why shouldn't retired people be taxed. Aren't they still American citizens? Why should they be exempt? Some retirees are wealthy, you want to exempt them too? \nHonestly, I think some people in this world want to be taken care of by the government from cradle to grave!
515586
The tax is not for benefits, its for living there..
205428
Well, rich people have larger / more houses so they pay more council tax than poorer people.  This is how wealth is supposedly redistributed.  In practise, rich people have accountants and lawyers and power, and try hard to wriggle out of paying taxes.  Like John Prescott.  The hypocrite.\n\nIt benefits society by giving local authorities money to spend on local issues
1186519
Well the problem there is nepotism.  You may help a friend or relative get a job but there was someone more qualified to get it and should have it.  The people pay taxes to fulfill that position and should have the best applicant - not the one that makes the politicians friends and family happy?
226399
People's personal blights, ie poverty or education, or not the responsibility of goverment. It is that person's choice where they are in life. In modern american society it seems that everyone wants to blame someone for the way they ended up, or make an excuse for why someone else is doing better than them. \n\nIt is a fact that some people will do nothing more than what is ABSOLUTELY nessacary for survival on that particular day. Some people will do more, and some will do everything they can to get better off than others. \n\nTo directly answer the poverty % quest... It all comes down to what the person doing the survey wants the number to be. A person living in per-say Montana with a small farm grwing there own food not really having a need for money is in poverty. But if you ask them they may say they are doing fine as all of their needs are met. A multi-millionaire that has no job (doesn't need it duh) and has no investment income (poor economic move) is considered in poverty by IRS standards. So it all comes down to what poverty number do you want to have?\n\nOn a side note, I fix up houses as a business. With the way the tax code is structured I can write off almost all of my income to business expenses. IRS paper work I made $9300 last year for a family of 3 (sole income earner). My actually net from the business for the year was $102,000+(not rubbing it in). I have been contacted multi times for Gov't assistance because we are POOR. LOL
716412
It is another way to take the money and property from the person, and also another criminal charge against them.\n\nThe criminal is suppose to go in and buy stamps for thier illegal drugs,  Thus while the drugs are illegal, they are paying thier taxes on them.\n\nSo if the criminal is not paying the taxes,  the state can seize the property of the criminal for non payment of taxes.
432135
Do like I do. Just don't pay taxes. I find it's easier to live with myself if I am not supporting a fat, over-bearing uncle...
266036
We have to have taxes, there is no easy way around that.  But, we would be better off if our government uses our taxes more effectiveley.
959498
In theory, to make the tax burden fairer on tax payers.\n\nPoor pay less and rich pay more. ie 0% on first c£5000, 10% on next c£2000, 22% on next c£25000 and 40% thereafter.
25540
the theory is the more money people have that they aren't giving in taxes, the more they'll have to invest in the economy. but the tax laws are written in such a way that the rich are able to use loophole after loophole with the poor and middle class putting up the rest of the cash the rich would have normally paid.
679422
Because there's too many Mexicans coming in, working, & sending most of their money back to Mexico, to their families. Some are living pretty comfortable on US$, they'll never have to pay taxes on. It doesn't help are econome
215527
For all you ignorant people sayin that illegal immigrants dont pay taxes and all.. let me tell you something... they do pay taxes! whenever they go to the store, when they get their paycheck they get a tax cut too and they do support the US ecconomy and they do all the dirty work that all you lazy but  wont do!!!\nthey are not criminals they should not be treated like that\nthey are just people tryin to make a better living tryin to provide their families with a better future!!! is that illegal?   that goes to all you ignorant people!!!
1141202
no u can't u are subjected to pay taxes wherever u might go or which state u settle in. paying taxes is all part of assisting the government in rendering us services, so without taxes u wouldn't have the necessary help from the govern.
516473
WELL.....u have 2 choices. 1) you don't register your business and dont' get a tax id and risk going to jail for not paying your taxes or 2) you pay taxes like your suppose to. (In reality, if you make less than a certain amount of money a year, then you don't have to pay taxes. I think its something like $9,000)
260340
Government like people have good and bad traits.  The taxes also pay for the schools, roads, services, courts, police and many more services that we used daily without knowing it.  We usually have to be more active politically to get the government to change.