Good luck with that little fantasy. I worked for the CRA for 35 years and I know how events would go if you actually tried to do it rather than just spewing words about your own courage and determination.So now that my defence has worked effectively for selling cocaine, I'm going to try the same defence for taxes. I'm going to find an employer who is willing to pay me in full without deducting my taxes and then I'm going to deduct the taxes myself and put them in the account of the Canada Interactive Legislature (CIL). I will then write the Canada Revenue Agency with periodic updates as to how much tax I've paid to the CIL, informing them of my defence and asking whether they would like to meet in court to see if my defence is accepted. If they don't come after me, then eventually I might be able to persuade other people to also stop paying their taxes to the revenue agency and pay them to the CIL in the same amounts instead.
The Canadian Government gets almost all of its tax revenue from mandatory deductions from employee wages. Other sources, while significant, take a lot of effort to collect and are only a fraction of the money that falls into the government’s lap without effort through payroll deductions. Given the overwhelming importance of source deductions the CRA is very, very, serious about enforcing compliance by employers. This is why it is mandatory, not discretionary, for employers to deduct taxes at source. The CRA has a large payroll audit section constantly checking out business payroll records and any employer caught not deducting is very heavily penalized. Even late payments of source deductions trigger automatic penalties. Notwithstanding this reality you blithely assume you can find an employer willing to forego making source deductions on your behalf. So who's going to go out on that limb for you?
I’ve written extensively here about the Paradigm tax evasion scheme. While it wrapped itself around a complex tax mythology it was, at heart, nothing more than tax evasion scheme that advocated hiding your income from the CRA. Employees of course can't do that and I’ve recorded elsewhere in Quatloos the story of Paradigm followers who tried to hide their income by getting their employers to stop making their mandatory deductions. All failed. At best they were just told no but, if they became too much of a nuisance, they were fired. So why would you be treated any differently?
But, for the purpose of this discussion, let’s assume you found such an employer. You propose to;
You clearly know nothing about how the CRA works. They wouldn’t engage you in a discussion about your ‘defence’ (sic) nor would they take you to court. They would just reassess you, including a non-filing penalty, and garnishee your wages. It happens all the time, an everyday routine. The CRA doesn’t even have to get a court order to garnishee wages, they issue garnishee orders under their own authority. What the CRA wouldn’t do is listen to your endless fantasies. They couldn’t care less that you claimed you’d paid your tax money to a fake fantasy government. They’d garnishee that bank account too with the full cooperation of the bank. Again it happens all the time. The taxes would be owed to the real Canadian government and they’ll go after it without discussion.. . . . write the Canada Revenue Agency with periodic updates as to how much tax I've paid to the CIL, informing them of my defence and asking whether they would like to meet in court to see if my defence is accepted.
You could of course go to court to try and get your assessment reversed but not, like last time, at a provincial court. You would have to appeal to the Tax Court of Canada, the only Canadian court with jurisdiction over tax appeals. They would pay no attention whatever to your philosophic meanderings about paying your taxes to an alternative pretend government. All that matters to the Tax Court is whether or not you have been correctly assessed under the Income Tax Act of Canada and none of your daydreams about the Canada Interactive Legislature would be of the slightest significance in that determination. The CRA would spend fifteen minutes entering your employer’s documents regarding your wages into evidence and the hearing would be over.
But, as we all know, it’s all just bullshit to show how brave and determined you are about how far you are willing to go to hold true to your principles. You’ve been on Quatloos for almost a decade. During that time you threatened to kill yourself as a sacrifice to your idiotic voting system, there was something I’ve forgotten about a prostitute, and you go on endlessly about trying to get arrested for cocaine possession. And what have you actually done in that decade apart from being a keyboard warrior? Nothing.
But let’s not end on a negative note. I do have some slight, very slight, praise for you.
Thank you for that.Much discussion has already taken place about how the CIL shall spend those taxes, but I'm sure it would make this post too long to elaborate on those details here.
