why do people agree to pay taxes?

[BUK2016]

People pay taxes in fulfilment of their civic responsibility. Beyond this, taxes are payed by individuals pay taxes to enable government meet up with its obligations to the generality of the citizenry. Tax payers monies goes to building infrastructure and payments of public servants. Hence, people pay taxes because it is obligatory by law to do so.

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[yrrehc16]

why is it ok for a group of people calling themselves the government to force everyone to buy their services?
if enough armed people refused to pay and told the government to go fuck itself there is nothing they could do.

What do you want? pay the government with taxes or no government and let different groups made that to us?
if we don't have this so-called government, there will be a group of people that will use p[ower to get money from us and they will be worse than our government now. im pretty sure of that, like what bandits did!

[mcqueen95]

Because tax money helps to ensure the road you travel on are safe and well-maintained. taxes fund public libraries and parks. taxes are also used to funds many types of government program that help the poor and less fortunate, as well as many school,

[yesiam6]

I think that most people only pay taxes to avoid fines and jailtime, basically because it's illegal to not pay your taxes.
The only two sure things in life are death and taxes 

I've also found this scientific look at the question of why people pay taxes

"Why do people pay taxes when they have an opportunity, even an incentive, to evade? The experimental results in this paper suggest that tax compliance occurs because some individuals overweight the low probability of audit, although such overweighting is not universal. The results also indicate that compliance does not occur simply because individuals believe that evasion is wrong, since subject behavior is unchanged by the use of either neutral or loaded terms. Finally, there is evidence that individuals pay taxes because they value the public goods that their taxes finance. In short, individuals exhibit much diversity in their behavior."

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Journal of Public Economics
Volume 48, Issue 1, June 1992, Pages 21-38

[marcbitcoins]

Paying taxes is the most retarded thing that government making us to do... I am just happy that i know about bitcoin and can use this wonderful currency without any taxes for income im getting.

Taxes is very important because it will use by government to serve the citizens in return that they will use it to pay our soldiers, policemen, public teachers and other government workers. Taxes will also be use for infrastructures like building of bridges, public hospitals, market and schools, roads, and government buildings for our document needed. You can review tax purposes more in your Social Science subject for complete information.

[Uno17]

If a certain individual is good and law abiding citizen, you will really agree on paying taxes because it is your mark as legal citizen in your country, that you consider the government to gather sufficient funds for the welfare of everybody, so as a citizen to the country where you belong, you must not think of yourself all the way, instead look forward also to the good future of the country by paying your taxes and abiding the law implemented, not only for yourself but for the future also of your next generation.

[congresowoman]

why is it ok for a group of people calling themselves the government to force everyone to buy their services?
if enough armed people refused to pay and told the government to go fuck itself there is nothing they could do.

Actually paying taxes is good in general for we will also benefit from it after all. Maybe you just don't notice but you can encounter it to your everyday life.

First of all we don't have any choice but to pay tax that is base on your expenses. We have no choice but to agree and follow this rule. Unfortunately, there are some people who runs for their responsibility.

People agree on paying taxes because that is their social responsibility as a citizen of their country. Taxes are what fuels the government for projects like infrastructures and projects that will benefit most of the citizens. Maybe some gets disheartened because most of the news published by the media is always bad, like officials corrupting peoples taxes that is why citizens dont get motivated to pay taxes.
If you are going to look at it in a different light, we benefit from taxes a lot. From roads, garbage collection, water filtration-- see these may appear simple but this has a great impact on our daily living.

[doodle07]

Because it's a "MUST". Its a government policy, so being a law-abiding-citizen you must have to pay your taxes base on your profit/income. And also addition to that, our taxes plays a big role in our community, developing roads for us to have a nice one and many more, unless the government is not corrupt we have no worries for that taxes we paid regularly.

[LarryHolmes]

I have no objection to paying taxes. I think it's silly to think you can have a cohesive society without paying taxes, it would be a jungle if we had no hospitals, schools, public services etc that were not free and everything you had to pay for. who would win then? The Oligarchs and banksters like Jamie Dimond who can afford to do whatever they want and the poor would only suffer. Scandanavia has high tax levels and the highest living standards in the world. So I'm not against even moderate tax levels.

My main objections however are more on a political level:

1) The way governments tar Bitcoin and crypto with the brush its for criminals. Considering how much money goes through Wall Street and banks that is used for laundering, terrorism, drugs cartels or whatever dodgy stuff the CIA/FSB (KGB) is up to to fund their dodgy acts they have some nerve, they are simply trying to control people and keep them down with lots of media disinformation.

2) The way the governments show a lack of consistency in regulation and keep moving the goalposts. In the UK currently hardly anyone knows what to declare in our tax returns in regards to crypto. The advice they have published is still vague and they are incompetent really, a lot of people will end up not declaring correctly or some may avoid it if they make life too difficult.

3) The banks and legacy financial system. It's foundations are not fit for purpose, not for the benefit of people and they don't care. Max keiser has called them Financial terrorists and I think thats what they are. They are dinosaurs, scared of Bitcoin/Blockchain, sharing wealth and have vested interests in making life difficult for people who trade crypto. I hope they are eventually replaced by decentralised crypto banks that at least offer a halfway house between a normal bank whilst not making life difficult for people dealing in crypto and care about the industry rather than the old boys networks the likes of JP Morgan, Goldman Sachs etc want to maintain to keep people in their place.

 

[theunbeatable]

People agree to pay to tax because on the income of the tax , government make project for their people and make the society of the country happy on their tax income like to build refreshment places for the people. people agree to pay tax when government give facility of the social services like telephone, internet,electricity and Television etc.

The way that the tax function in the society is important (specially those countries that don't have enough resources to cover all the needs of the nation) so they are taking the human resources. What's not good is that the higher ups in that country are not using that tax for the benefits of all, instead it is being used in their own greed. That's why the tax has a bad name for some people and that's why questions like "why do people agree to pay taxes?" are being made is because the officials are using it in a bad way.

[Taki]

Those taxes are kinda going to our better life, police, medicine and so on. But many of politics and oligarchs long time ago proved that taxes can be skipped or moved to a minimum Meanwhile we do not have careful maid cine care and security, for the quality of such simple things we should pay ourselves and search for other ways to satisfy our needs. That's just rediculous, but the situation isn't going to become better.

[robbietobby]

Its always everyone's privilege to pay their taxes so that the government would have their compensation to return to us civilized citizens.  In philippines, taxed income are categorized by these three (3): (1) passive income; (2) business or professional  income; and (3) compensation employment income. It ends selfsame that it is an equal right to pay taxes for those salary that is higher than the minimum wage. At an instance, there would be a possibilities that taxes might be lower or higher depending on the economical state status. Well, right now, TRAIN policy was given to each people wherein taxes are lessen with rates yet some basic goods were higher than their normal market price or SRP (cosmetic, and etc.). The claim of the farmers are to lessen their compensation given the new TRAIN law.

[ashfer]

Everyone agree to pay their tax as tax is something which is a mandatory contribution for the revenue of the country .The government get their salary from the tax that is being collected from the citizens of the nation.If a fails to pay their tax or refuse to pay the tax they will have to face the consequences like maybe a civil case will come up in their name and will have to face trial in court and they might be charged excess amount for non payment of the tax aswell as in rare case they will even have to go behind bars .So is the reason all pay tax without questioning the government. Tax play a major role for running the economy of the country.

[Dorion2124]

Everyone who need their business is the one who pay taxes. All people dont want to pay but its the law, and if you dont want your business will close of the government, then you should forcefully pay taxes.

[seroja17]

There is still a lot of cheating and avoidance in terms of paying taxes. The problem is because of the unwillingness to pay taxes. And who else will help the country if not its own people who support the development of his country.

[Fulmand]

Everyone agree to pay their tax as tax is something which is a mandatory contribution for the revenue of the country .The government get their salary from the tax that is being collected from the citizens of the nation.If a fails to pay their tax or refuse to pay the tax they will have to face the consequences like maybe a civil case will come up in their name and will have to face trial in court and they might be charged excess amount for non payment of the tax aswell as in rare case they will even have to go behind bars .So is the reason all pay tax without questioning the government. Tax play a major role for running the economy of the country.

Yes I agree on that It is really the law.we need to pay taxes because it is for the whole country but the worst thing here is that some politics corrupt the taxes and there are only few left for the country this is really the reality of what will happen to the said taxes.But we don really have ghe power to cut this kind of monkey business of some politician that is why until now they really do the same bad thing from the past.

[phr0stbyt3]

Its not a choice nothing is free in this world , it is said that democracy gives freedom but in actual its freedom only for the rich , there are many regulations set on amount of tax to be paid if not it is a crime , so its up to us if we dont pay taxes we will have to spend our life behind bars

[pansu18]

Because it helps to develop the infrastructure of the state like Roads, hospitals, legal protection, welfare security, environment preservation are all possible for our enjoyment  tax will helps to improve the standard of the education. It will be able to provide education to all citizens and helps to increase the standard of living of the citizen. People pay taxes so they can maintain a streamlined government.

[J Gambler]

why is it ok for a group of people calling themselves the government to force everyone to buy their services?
if enough armed people refused to pay and told the government to go fuck itself there is nothing they could do.

People agree to pay taxes because it is the very lifeblood of a country and our society as a whole. Paying taxes means that there is a government who would be able to take care of the roads, the services that we should be taken care of and people agree to this because it is a responsibility and a neccessoty that should be fulfilled or else there will be a shutdown and a country would cease to function

[acener]

why is it ok for a group of people calling themselves the government to force everyone to buy their services?
if enough armed people refused to pay and told the government to go fuck itself there is nothing they could do.

After hearing and knowing the reason behind it, people chose to believe what the government proposes to them, but the only problem that I see here is the fact that not all of the taxes of the people go to the innovation of the country, there are times that it goes to the officials bank accounts.