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Some food for thought: Like every “taxation is theft” zealot, you probably get into arguments with pro-taxation people a lot. They’ll probably tell you that without taxes, there would be no X and Y and Z (I saw a few in this thread already) and that people who minimize or avoid taxation are criminals and a drag on the society.
Here is a fun thought experiment to gnaw at: If not paying taxes is like stealing from the society, who is actually stealing the most? Well, it is the people who don’t bother to create enough wealth to be taxed. They steal 2-fold because wealth is created by creating labor saving processes and devices (solving problems) so they don’t contribute neither with hyper-productivity nor with paid taxes. The end result is the same, society losing contributions that could be used to improve it.
Once you are done venting and want to actually solve your tax problem (if you even have one), do some research, go to tax attorney, make optimization plan. The best among them involve moving to a country with little to no taxes but first-world infrastructure. Skip Monaco, look into Dubai, but if you wish to stay within your own cultural bubble, you have some options in east Asia and in east Europe too, albeit not with zero % effective taxes. All depends on what type of income you are generating, there may be good options for you in places that officially are not very tax-friendly but offer special exemptions on certain sources of income.
I was on a different “marketing” forum long time ago that was in my native language. There were many pro-taxation “marketers” there that would scorn anyone who raised any question about legitimacy of taxation. Fast-forward a few years, several of them went into politics (you know which side) and never achieved anything in the business sector. It is easy to advocate for high taxation when you have no intention ever paying them.
Here is a fun thought experiment to gnaw at: If not paying taxes is like stealing from the society, who is actually stealing the most? Well, it is the people who don’t bother to create enough wealth to be taxed. They steal 2-fold because wealth is created by creating labor saving processes and devices (solving problems) so they don’t contribute neither with hyper-productivity nor with paid taxes. The end result is the same, society losing contributions that could be used to improve it.
Once you are done venting and want to actually solve your tax problem (if you even have one), do some research, go to tax attorney, make optimization plan. The best among them involve moving to a country with little to no taxes but first-world infrastructure. Skip Monaco, look into Dubai, but if you wish to stay within your own cultural bubble, you have some options in east Asia and in east Europe too, albeit not with zero % effective taxes. All depends on what type of income you are generating, there may be good options for you in places that officially are not very tax-friendly but offer special exemptions on certain sources of income.
I was on a different “marketing” forum long time ago that was in my native language. There were many pro-taxation “marketers” there that would scorn anyone who raised any question about legitimacy of taxation. Fast-forward a few years, several of them went into politics (you know which side) and never achieved anything in the business sector. It is easy to advocate for high taxation when you have no intention ever paying them.
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