Does anyone out there truly understand taxes

We have taxes on taxes, you notice that? Happens everywhere. I hate taxes. haven't done mine in years now, even though I know I should. Governments always find ways of taxing people and making us pay even more than we should. Look at how much they get, and see how much they have to pay, if anything.

there are different types of taxes. One direct tax - income tax, corporate tax, excise duty etc. Income tax is paid on the income received by individuals and companies. Here only some of us do not reveal full income or we show it in different names. Showing it in different names is a way to escape taxes. I do not understand what do you mean by telling "we pay taxes every day and everytime we purchase something" -- that is sales tax that is paid by people who buy. if some one is not buying a commodity he is not paying. I understand the anxiety you have. I have known people who are sincere and reveal every rupee earned. I also know a few who find out ways for avoiding taxes. My idea is straight away there should be tax at 10% on income with no allowance and all that. But allowances are allowed to encourage savings. (I am talking with India in mind and am not sure what is special in Canada) Other members will post their views.

I think it depends on how many sources of income you have which the tax collectors have knowledge of...Or they will ask you these and you specified them. Also if you are well known to your community like you are a movie or TV personality. In many cases, people who earn a lot of money tends to be asked to pay more taxes. If you earn a measly low wage income and a tax collector asks you, just say hey I'm broke and I dont have any source of money except this and then show him or her your payroll slips.

Yeah... that's something worth thinking. We pay taxes in what we buy every day but still we need to pay taxes for what we earn and still buy... My mind is kind of puzzled here. Anyways, there are really a lot of things in the law that are hard to understand. Like in the Philippines, there is a law saying 'THE PRESIDENT CAN NO LONGER HAVE A POSITION AFTER HIS/HER TERM AS A PRESIDENT (using my own words here), then the former president has a new position now saying it only applies not to run as president again. Well, the makers of the law should be blamed here. They don't clarify things out. They do laws that can make issues later - just like these taxes.

How are we to learn of the wealth of a nation if its people claim that all theirs has to be 'taken' to be a part of the nation's wealth? I mean, don't you know that money is debt? THAT is the Democracy in the world: ANYONE who has money can give it! There are things you can do to make people WANT to give the money to you (which include both 'calling in debts' and 'giving it responsibly/worthily/etc.'), even going so far as to 'get The Law involved'; but--in the end--people give it only because THEY want to! Actually, the giving-and-taking is just for show ... it's NEVER your money, my money, their money---it's like 'scores' vs. 'points' ... adding 'points' to the scoreboard is as simple as pushing a button, but for a player to make the score-keeper WANT to push that button - that takes a miracle of physics (SCORE!)

Oh i didnt even understand wht u described about taxes :D though i have had problems based on taxes in my maths course when i was young but i still couldnt understand them .. :D