In most countries around the world, while paying taxes is required by the law and considered a civic duty, it also brings about downsides that lead to certain individuals or corporations trying to evade or deduct the tax they need to pay.
Some people claim that levying taxes is unfair and they deserve to keep all their legitimate income to themselves because they fight every single minute for it. High taxes can not only stifle the motivation of individual workers but also exert a negative effect of penalising hard work. The more concerning situation, however, is that with all taxpayers’ money accumulated, the government, albeit even an elected one, could misuse or even become corrupted, not to mention those authoritarian ones. In this case, it is better to keep the money to their own instead of anyone else.
However, other people argue that taxes revenue provides a vital source for the government who shoulder the responsibility to build a strong country and provide important public services such as police, healthcare, education and many other vital ones which are closely tied to every single citizen’s well-being. Without this revenue, there would be no money to pay for government workers, resulting in no organisation to run the country and probably jeopardising national security. Therefore, paying taxes should be every single taxpayer’s responsibility.
My view is that it is every capable citizen’s duty to pay taxes to support and provide our government necessary sources to protect our entire country as well as improve our personal life quality, only in the condition that they must be well used and absolutely cannot be abused by incompetent officials.
In most
countries
around the world, while paying
taxes
is required
by the law and considered a civic duty, it
also
brings about downsides that lead to certain individuals or corporations trying to evade or deduct the
tax
they need to pay.
Some
people
claim that levying
taxes
is
unfair and
they deserve to
keep
all their legitimate income to themselves
because
they fight every single minute for it. High
taxes
can not
only
stifle the motivation of individual workers
but
also
exert a
negative
effect of
penalising
hard
work. The more concerning situation,
however
, is that with all taxpayers’ money accumulated, the
government
, albeit even an elected one, could misuse or even become corrupted, not to mention those authoritarian ones.
In this case
, it is better to
keep
the money to their
own
instead
of anyone else.
However
, other
people
argue that
taxes
revenue provides a vital source for the
government
who shoulder the responsibility to build a strong
country
and provide
important
public services such as police, healthcare, education and
many
other vital ones which are
closely
tied to every single citizen’s well-being. Without this revenue, there would be no money to pay for
government
workers, resulting in no
organisation
to run the
country
and
probably
jeopardising
national security.
Therefore
, paying
taxes
should be every single taxpayer’s responsibility.
My view is that it is every capable citizen’s duty to pay
taxes
to support and provide our
government
necessary sources to protect our entire
country
as well
as
improve
our personal life quality,
only
in the condition that they
must
be well
used
and
absolutely
cannot
be abused
by incompetent officials.