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Probably the most effective way to protest everything this fuck face fascist is doing would be to just stop paying federal taxes. They don’t pay their taxes, why should we?
A good number of jobs automatically deduct taxes from your paycheck, which makes this difficult.
Also, I don't think HR/Payroll would easily agree to any requests by personnel to stop the deductions. They will ask questions.
They definitely are controlled by the employee. You tell your employer your number of dependants, and that adjusts how much is taken out.
FYI as someone who has filled out that form many times as "exempt" I can say no one has ever asked any questions about it. If they did, I'd probably tell them it's none of their business- I'm the one committing the crime if what I'm signing isn't true, and at no point in submitting it are you asked to prove youre exempt (until you file your 1040 the next year, if you file one)
But it's also pretty hard to argue later you must have just "done the math wrong" ’cause there's a whole separate section for declaring youre exempt.
They also still take out social security and medicare.
I'm not in the US but I thought about that once, I would be better off not paying taxes on my paycheque, putting what I'm supposed to owe in a savings account and keeping the interest when paying all my taxes at once...
Fun fact. If you are self employed, you are expected to predict your annual tax and pay it quarterly. Get it wrong, and you pay penalties.
Same in Canada if you've got too much capital gains one year, you're asked to pay in advance the following year but it's not an obligation.
Then you would owe the IRS interest on the money in the form of a special penalty surcharge on your taxes owed.
Because it's cheaper for them to endlessly obstruct the IRS with legal fights than it is for them to pay taxes, meaning they're rich enough to never go to prison. Us plebes though would burn through whatever cash we have and end up in prison on day 2.
How do you propose to not pay taxes? Most people don't get a choice - their boss takes the money and gives it to the IRS. You can maybe get a little less than correct withheld and thus owe a couple thousand, but the IRS would catch on to that quickly and send you to prison.
They might or might not pay taxes, but they either way they are paying their legally required taxes. If they are paying less taxes than you think they should - that is politically debated.
File a new W4 with HR requesting no federal income tax is withheld.
they will ask questions if you try and when you cannot answer them 'correctly' refuse it.
Chill. It’s a hypothetical that will never actually happen. But if everyone stopped paying taxes, they couldn’t throw everyone in prison.