[s1artibartfast]

>Every tax dollar you don't pay is a dollar someone else has to pay instead, or a dollar that gets added to the national debt. And burning your house down and writing off the depreciated value is absolutely not legal.

nobody is entitled tax revenue. Laws generally support taxes on income/profit, and arent just a bill.

It isn't illegal to work less and pay less taxes.

It is absolutely legal to knock down your house so you dont have to pay property or sales tax on it.

[gruez]

>It is absolutely legal to knock down your house so you dont have to pay property or sales tax on it.

Generally property taxes are on the land and its improvements (eg. houses), so burning down the house wouldn't relieve you of property tax obligations. Moreover, destroying the house would actually reduce your tax obligations, and AFAIK isn't illegal.

[s1artibartfast]

It would relieve you of property tax for the house, which is my point.

It would also allow you to avoid taxes on the sale of the house.

[gruez]

So you're saying that you can't demolish buildings on your own property (or at least not without rebuilding another of equal value), because that would lead to the city/county getting less taxes? That seems utterly absurd. What's next, not being able to paint the inside of your house puke yellow, which would also tank property values?

[s1artibartfast]

I think you misread my initial post.

>nobody is entitled tax revenue. Laws generally support taxes on income/profit, and arent just a bill.

>It isn't illegal to work less and pay less taxes.

>It is absolutely legal to knock down your house so you dont have to pay property or sales tax on it. You are making the same point.