Short of quitting my job, which kind of defeats the purpose, how do I challenge and rebut taxes that are deducted at source off my paycheque before I ever get it. Every employer does that here. And if they don’t, they pay my tax bill and we both get fined. The state has turned every employer here into a collection agent.
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Never be an "employee".
The word employee has its roots in the Latin word implicare, which became implicari, meaning “to be involved in” or ”attached to”.
Over time, the Latin word evolved into the middle English word “imploy”, from the 16th and 17th century, and meant “enfold”, “entangle”, “to entwine” and “imply”, and is compared to the Latin word implicare or_“to implicate”.
A person who is carrying out the action of, or offering employment, is offering you to be implicated with the business in hand, and would be called the “employer”.
If the offer is accepted, then you would be in the “state of being employed”, making you the “employee”.
Once employed, you can now be deployed, meaning “to make use of” or “to bring into effective action”, just as troops or infantry would be.
Note: being employed does not mean you are entitled to payment, it just means you are implicated.
Therefore, if you accept “citizenship” or “civilian-ship”, you are now implicated with a corporation, which can “deploy you”, or “make use of you”.
Meaning you have become a “taxable human resource” to the corporation.
I don’t think my family would be too thrilled about living in a tent if I stopped being employed. I’m pretty sure I could make a go of it making some sort of income doing things for people for cash or BTC based on my skill set, but the house would be gone and we would be meeting our current commitments on about 10% of the income we currently have for some time. Yeah I think I’ll stay married.
you signed the W4 that lets them do this to you. does that W4 even actually apply to your situation? dig deeper.