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Why I failed to pay my taxes

• Terr_ 3y ago
  > What also doesn’t feel good: tax collection in Cheltenham has, for some reason, been outsourced to a private company Somehow that reminds me of private tax collection in France, which led to a city wall to collect taxes on goods. [0] Public anger over such tax practices featured prominently in the revolution several years after it was finished. Obviously there are some pretty big differences between that and this, but I think "outsourcing tax collection" is a negative thing by default. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wall_of_the_Ferme_g%C3%A9n%C3%A9rale https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wall_of_the_Ferme_g%C3%A9n%C3%...