What You Don’t Get With Taxes

For years I didn’t worry much about taxes. After all how much did I pay? Not much considering the sales or value added tax which can be easily evaded in Nepal if you don’t take a receipt for the transactions. But then one day I started getting responsbile and earning. Imagine my horror when 15% was taken away from my first salary as a tax contribution! I went back to my school days where I had memorised ‘Tax is a compulsory contribution made to the government in order to enhance the government’s capacity to perform welfare functions’. On the day of my first pay check, I finally began to ask – ‘What welfare function?’

I live in a country that has no drinking water supply, let alone luxuries like proper roads and electricity. My parents never favored public school. Why would they? The public schools rarely open thrice a week and even then its rare to find teachers. So yes I was pretty mad when the government in the name of welfare started taking my money. I earned that money with a lot of hard work and I am not ready to accept payment of that money to an irresponsible third party who think they know how to spend my money better than I do. This is what this blog is about. This is my fight against a system which tries to block my incentive to earn more simply by saying that the higher I earn, the larger amount of tax I have to pay! Ask any child and they will tell you how ridiculous this whole notion of taxation is especially that of a progressive taxation system. So I am very firm in my beliefs: I will pay taxes only minimally to help the government maintain law and order in the country and conduct foreign policy. Paying anything to the government besides that is simply a waste of my money and I don’t like wasting my hard earned money and I guess you don’t too!

Related links:
http://www.taxpayersalliance.com/
http://www.beltoday.com/
http://www.taxthefish.com/