A report on Tax noncompliance, Tax and Tax resistance

The ratio of German assets in tax havens in relation to the total German GDP. Havens in countries with tax information sharing allowing for compliance enforcement have been in decline. The "Big 7" shown are Hong Kong, Ireland, Lebanon, Liberia, Panama, Singapore, and Switzerland.
Total revenue from direct and indirect taxes given as share of GDP in 2017
Gandhi making salt and disobeying the British salt production and tax laws.
Tax campaigner Richard Murphy's estimate of the ten countries with the largest absolute levels of tax evasion. He estimated that global tax evasion amounts to 5 percent of the global economy.
Pieter Brueghel the Younger, The tax collector's office, 1640
Egyptian peasants seized for non-payment of taxes during the Pyramid Age.
Poster issued by the British tax authorities to counter offshore tax evasion.
Substitution effect and income effect with a taxation on y good.
Boston Tea Party, 16 December 1773.
HMRC estimated tax gaps 2005-2019
Budget's constraint shift after an introduction of a lump sum tax or a general tax on consumption or a proportional income tax.
Henry David Thoreau, author of Civil Disobedience.
The Laffer curve. In this case, the critical point is at a tax rate of 70%. Revenue increases until this peak, then it starts decreasing.
The White House Peace Vigil, started by Thomas in 1981 and supported by tax resister Ellen Thomas.
General government revenue, in % of GDP, from social contributions. For this data, the variance of GDP per capita with purchasing power parity (PPP) is explained in 20% by social contributions revenue.
Egyptian peasants seized for non-payment of taxes. (Pyramid Age)
Public finance revenue from taxes in % of GDP. For this data, the variance of GDP per capita with purchasing power parity (PPP) is explained in 32% by tax revenue.
Diagram illustrating deadweight costs of taxes

Tax noncompliance (informally tax avoision) is a range of activities that are unfavorable to a government's tax system.

- Tax noncompliance

Tax resistance is the refusal to pay tax because of opposition to the government that is imposing the tax, or to government policy, or as opposition to taxation in itself.

- Tax resistance

The first known taxation took place in Ancient Egypt around 3000–2800 BC. A failure to pay in a timely manner (non-compliance), along with evasion of or resistance to taxation, is punishable by law.

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Individuals that do not comply with tax payment include tax protesters and tax resisters.

- Tax noncompliance

Because taxation is often oppressive, governments have always struggled with tax noncompliance and resistance.

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Murray Rothbard argued in The Ethics of Liberty in 1982 that taxation is theft and that tax resistance is therefore legitimate: "Just as no one is morally required to answer a robber truthfully when he asks if there are any valuables in one's house, so no one can be morally required to answer truthfully similar questions asked by the state, e.g., when filling out income tax returns."

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The ratio of German assets in tax havens in relation to the total German GDP. Havens in countries with tax information sharing allowing for compliance enforcement have been in decline. The "Big 7" shown are Hong Kong, Ireland, Lebanon, Liberia, Panama, Singapore, and Switzerland.

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