Oddbean new post about login | logout I don’t know how a guy is supposed to stop paying taxes on income when it’s deducted at source. Wide swaths of the population where I live would have done it already if it was that easy. Here, employers (corporations that employ people) are agents of the state. And if they don’t deduct your income taxes at source, and you refuse to settle up with the revenue agency at the end of the year, the employer is on the hook for it. It’s the perfect racket.
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The Canadian equivalent of the W4 is an application for exemption from withholding that requires that you submit a reason for the exemption request, which can then be approved or denied. I’ve been around the horn on this. The only way around it here is to be a contractor and purposely evade (and wait for the goons to show up), or go off grid and work for cash or some asset that you can trade. It’s the Matrix. With so many workers willing to sign up for slavery, most employers don’t need to fuck around dealing with anarchists and the associated risks. Next applicant.
Interesting, and scarily authoritarian. At least within a US context, as an employee, you can essentially decouple the tax theft scheme from your employer by ticking the box. This obviously isnt the end of the harrassment as now you, the individual, are the target. This is where massive non-compliance comes in as the system is not designed to handle this occurrence. Fear is the most often used compliance mechanism of the state, strength in numbers can overcome this (of course until CBDC and social credit is instituted then we have algorithmic enforcement which does an end-run around compliance, scary)