Sunday, March 24, 2024

MoneyWalk 243 Pay Taxes

This program will help you undo financial bondage. 

There are people and organizations in the United States who say governments have no right to collect taxes from any citizen, visitor, or tourist. This attitude appears to be catching fire in some members of the church as well. The first argument says that your allegiance is to God only and therefore you owe no government anything. The second argument says the U.S. Constitution contains no article or provision allowing taxation and therefore the president, congress, state, and local legislators have no right to pass laws requiring people to pay taxes. The third argument says the amount of taxation has become so enormous that it oppresses people and therefore must be boycotted and left unpaid.

Based upon biblical instruction, you as a godly person should recognize these arguments as invalid even though worldly-minded people may think these arguments valid. Though the current tax maze is burdensome to some and riddled with unfairness, God is sure to provide those who follow His principles more than enough to pay what the governments require. Jesus answered all the arguments by paying taxes for Himself and Peter and also instructing that you should "Render unto Caesar the things that are Caesars and render unto God what is God's.”

You certainly can do all you can to reduce the amount of taxes you pay by taking all legal exemptions, deductions, credits, and other benefits available to you. Just make sure you don’t ruin a blessing of earning extra income and accumulating greater assets by accepting the unwise belief that paying lower taxes is always better. Such logic will cause you to be continually broke or impoverished because the only way to truly be charged no or low taxes is to earn no or low income.

Use overtime and side hustles to open the door for such blessing to come to you when aligned with God’s plan for your life and calling. You should determine whether or not overall expenses would exceed the net amount you’ll receive from these sources because you might not earn enough extra income to cover added costs such as child care, transportation, clothing, etc. The amount of taxes alone will not stop you from receiving far more than you earn right now. Thus, it is almost always better to earn extra income than it is to forego it.

When necessary, you can protest in a legal way when an exorbitant amount of taxes is being extracted from you and other people, and you could communicate to federal, state, and local legislators about the tax system being too complicated and unfair to some people. Just understand that God always provides your need according to His riches in glory in Christ Jesus and gives you more than enough to pay taxes due no matter what government officials decide to do.

1Kings 12:12-16, Matthew 17:24-27, Luke 20:21-26, Romans 13:1-7, 1Peter 2:11-17

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