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Originally Posted by fjtorres
And no, it is definitely not "stealing" from anybody. It is more like minimizing theft by corrupt politicians and their cronies. Tax avoidance at the petty levels of use tax, cigarette smuggling, etc, is simply people rebelling against oppression and hardly comparable to the actual avoidance by the wealthy with their armies of lawyers and accountants.
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Let's be clear about terms:
"Tax avoidance" is minimising your tax payments by legal means.
"Tax evasion" is not paying taxes that the law requires you to pay, and is a crime.
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The premise that tax monies goes to provide essential services to all is demonstrably false
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Where does the money to fund essential services come from if not from tax revenue?
The reason that I personally consider tax evasion to be a rather despicable crime is that the people who do it are presumably happy to use the services that the taxes paid by honest people provide, while choosing not to pay a contribution to those services themselves.
However, as you say, people feel differently about this.