"pay your tax to contribute to the country's budget" is a massive trivialization of the issue. Taxes are a highly complex system with thousands of rules on wha

"pay your tax to contribute to the country's budget" is a massive trivialization of the issue. Taxes are a highly complex system with thousands of rules on what is taxable and what is not, what income must be declared, what deductions are allowed, what investments count as pre-tax and what investments count as post-tax, etc etc etc. It's not "pay your tax", it's "follow a massive set of regulations that determine what taxes you owe and then pay those taxes". I assume you fill out your forms and take deductions that are appropriate as allowed by the law, right? If you do, you're violating the "spirit of the law" as you've stated it -- but no one believes that because it's a ridiculous position to take.