Tax noncompliance describes a range of activities that are unfavorable to a state's tax system. These include tax avoidance, which refers to reducing taxes by legal means, and tax evasion which refers to the criminal non-payment of tax liabilities. Individuals that do not comply with tax payment include tax protesters and tax resisters. Tax protesters attempt to evade the payment of taxes using frivolous interpretations of the tax law, while tax resisters refuse to pay a tax for conscientious reasons. Tax resisters typically do not take the position that the tax laws are themselves illegal or do not apply to them, as tax protesters do, but rather tax resisters are more concerned with not paying for particular government policies that they oppose. Because taxation is often perceived as onerous, governments have struggled with tax noncompliance since the earliest of times.
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