cav scout
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If you are a citizen of a country and in any way derive an economic benefit from your citizenship, pay the taxes without fudging the numbers. It's your obligation.
Follow the rules. You benefit, you pay taxes. Not so hard to follow. Campaign all you want for taxes to be lowered, but don't try and squeze around the law in the meantime.
The problem is that the tax code is so complex, contradictory and ambiguous that professionals (CPAs and even IRS agents) will be the first to tell you they don't fully understand it. And make no mistake, this system is broken on purpose. The lawmakers who should be placing the public interest first are instead working for special interests.
I have no doubt that Taniciusfox wants to pay his taxes in good faith. It's a shame that the system is so overly complex that someone who wants to do the morally right thing (pay what is owed, no less and no more) has a hard time determining the proper course of action.