Do we LAWFULLY have to pay income tax
Cain Brown made this Official Information request to Inland Revenue Department
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From: Cain Brown
Dear Inland Revenue Department,
To my understanding INCOME TAX is voluntary and everywhere i search it says the word NEED to pay income tax, NEED is not LAW.
Can you provide evidence of the LAW that has been passed by government stating that we must pay income tax by Law and not need too
Yours faithfully,
Cain Brown
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Dear Inland Revenue Department,
To my understanding INCOME TAX is voluntary and everywhere i search it
says the word NEED to pay income tax, NEED is not LAW.
Can you provide evidence of the LAW that has been passed by government
stating that we must pay income tax by Law and not need too
Yours faithfully,
Cain Brown
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From: oia
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M Bell left an annotation ()
From the IRD response ... "A person includes an individual; see section AA 3 of the ITA and in Part 2 of the Legislation Act 2019."
This does not appear to be correct as in those acts a "person" does not appear to be stated as including an "individual", neither is an individual defined in the definitions. At least not that I can see.
Person is defined as "... includes a corporation sole, a body corporate, and an unincorporated body". Apparently this person may be "liable" to "comply" with an "obligation imposed", and so I don't think the response answers the intent of the original question. It can be a real problem when very specific legal meanings of words are used interchangeably with everyday language use of the same words.
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Dan left an annotation ()
A very quick and simple search of the NZ Legislation website returns Income Tax Act 2007:
https://www.legislation.govt.nz/act/publ...
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