A SELF-EMPLOYED father-of-two has said he is not going to pay his taxes anymore and is prepared to go to jail over the issue.
Offaly man Patrick McGreal, 31, says he is no longer prepared to contribute to a system that he says is not working and claims that we pay some of the highest taxes in the world with the least return when it comes to healthcare and education.
“What’s the worst they can do to me? Bring me to court, probably heavily fine me, then I can’t pay the fine so they throw me in jail. But at the end of the day I don’t want my tax money being paid to the likes of bankers who did take a risk and who aren’t suffering,” he told TheJournal.ie
McGreal, who works as a courier selling farming produce around the country, said that at the end of the tax year he does not intend to file any tax returns and adds that he will avoid paying VAT wherever possible
full article at source: http://www.thejournal.ie/i-wont-pay-for-bankers-risk-taking-man-says-hell-stop-paying-tax-414069-Apr2012/
Comment:
We need more people to now start to cut out the state .Effectively stop the state getting tax from us , we also now need to start a boycott campaign against the banks buy only what you need to survive do not buy any un-necessary items, stop buying German goods. Anything that will reduce the state’s ability to pay the interest on the private gambling debts of these faceless gangsters, any money the state gets in taxes is now going to pay the gambling bondholders and the Deutsche Bank! Take you savings out of the Banks and put it into the post office or the credit unions. Stop having any business with the current Government Boycott all TD,s who support the current lying government. They have broken every promise they made to the Irish people and as such do not deserve any support in return. It’s time we the people show we are not going to take anymore of this crap from them. So let’s tell our Government TD,s we will boycott them until the stop supporting this government and stand with the people and stop this madness ,taking money from our services and paying back the private gambling debts of gangsters.
Hell no I will not pay, I will use every opportunity not to pay into the coffers of this corrupt government.
I must say I am happy to read this, it’s a refreshing initiative by a man who is not rich and is risking what he has in order to get people to notice. But, if you’re not willing to pay any tax, you should be consistent and not use any of the public services funded by other people’s tax, either. So my question is, is Mr McGreal not going to take any buses, use public toilets, and clean the street in front of his house himself?