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 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.