Greetings,
Is there a way to lawfully avoid paying income taxes?
Or can I pay someone to help me with this?
Greetings to thee, hawkinlaw!
The Guide on here actually has a number of articles on the income tax.
Methinks there are a few things to especially focus on, however:
- what the income tax actually is (hint, it's an excise tax on federally-connected activities1)
- whether thou actually qualifies for it (there is a slideshow that can help with this)
- what to do if thou does not qualify (language for one, action for another)
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Additionally, if me may, a comment on avoiding and evading taxes:
According to Ballentine's Law Dictionary (1933), avoidance of taxes means
Permissible acts and conduct, as distinguished from the reprehensible "evasion" of taxes.
Tax evasion itself means
Fraud in representation or concealment in attempting to avoid payment of a tax legally due, as in the case of an income tax, the filing of a return fraudulently understated in a willful attempt to evade payment
Basically, to avoid is to make void (i.e. nullify), which is perfectly legal depending on the contract; evasion is illegal for any contract.
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If thou made it this far, thanks for reading! Feel free to discuss more on this forum!
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1There are several books below thou can check out specifically on the income tax shown in this article:
The Federal Zone
Cracking the Code