Won't pay tax. Had enough.

Phill Ewinn

http://www.irishexaminer.com/ireland/ive-had-enough-im-not-paying-my-taxes-116246.html



Some self employed man refuses to make a tax retun this year because of the state the country is in. Unhappy with services and unwilling to pay banking debts he says enough with paying tax.


The poll on teh Journal says loads of people are in favour of his protest. How about it?

Princess Consuela Bananahammock

Phill Ewinn wrote: »

http://www.irishexaminer.com/ireland/ive-had-enough-im-not-paying-my-taxes-116246.html



Some self employed man refuses to make a tax retun this year because of the state the country is in. Unhappy with services and unwilling to pay banking debts he says enough with paying tax.


The poll on teh Journal says loads of people are in favour of his protest. How about it?

But you can rest assured they'll still be paying their taxes, though.

IM0

yes, thats it dont pay tax and services will improve



this man for president!

Neil3030

Great, so the rest of us have to pay for the cost of punishing him...

D1stant

I hope the moral high ground comforts him in jail

Typical post celtic tiger, government took my toys BS

seamus

This is man who specialises in asset and investment management.

The exact kind of people who fncked up the economy in the first place.

The ironing.

Shut up and pay your taxes you muppet. You of all people should be bending over and taking one for the country.

mikemac1

Ah the Matuschka's of Wicklow

Grand family, I know them well

Mr Benevolent

Yeah, lets all do this!

Wait, what's that you say? Greeks did that and look where it got them?

wrmwit

Phill Ewinn wrote: »

http://www.irishexaminer.com/ireland/ive-had-enough-im-not-paying-my-taxes-116246.html



Some self employed man refuses to make a tax retun this year because of the state the country is in. Unhappy with services and unwilling to pay banking debts he says enough with paying tax.


The poll on teh Journal says loads of people are in favour of his protest. How about it?

It's easy for people sitting behind a computer to answer a poll saying that they're in favour of a protest but when it comes to actually protesting, most of them are no where to be seen. It usually turns out to be a couple of hundred people who will get a 5 minute slot on Liveline! We're useless at protesting here.

Gingernuts31

Thats it this man is on the ball. I won't pay my taxs because im not happy with bankers and developers not being jailed. We all are p!ssed off at that but we don't stop paying taxes which is a legal requirement once you are employed and this idiot is self employed. Maybe when people start giving him grief and snubbing him for letting the burden of his actions fall on others like the bankers have he will cop on. He is what I would call a total and utter tool.

Gee Bag

Phill Ewinn wrote: »

Some self employed man refuses to make a tax retun this year because of the state the country is in. Unhappy with services and unwilling to pay banking debts he says enough with paying tax.

He's unhappy with services, how does he expect them to improve if no one pays tax?

Immaculate Pasta

He can protest all he likes when he's sent to prison for not paying his taxes. Eejit. :cool:

SEPT 23 1989

Fair play to him courageous move but as the garlic man found out you dont mess with the corrupt Irish State

Expect massive retribution from the Revenue

saa

Oh yeah and I think I'll stop paying for my fare on the luas because of the appalling public transport service we have here not because it actually suits me not to pay.

mikemac1

Nobody messes with Big Phil Hogan :eek:

There is going to be an example set to warn others

Rented Mule

"I’m serious about this. I’ve had enough. In September 2008 I cut my own salary by 25% and since then I have endured an increased tax burden of €5,000-€10,000 a year and had reduction in benefits through cuts in children’s allowance and deductions for medical expenses. Meanwhile my taxes are being used to support people drinking wine in Marbella."

Read more: http://www.irishexaminer.com/ireland/ive-had-enough-im-not-paying-my-taxes-116246.html#ixzz1rq7niMaj


You wonder why the country went broke in front of everyone's eyes ?

zac8

Just what this country needs - another leech.

Dudess

What a twat. Objecting to particular taxes is one thing, but deciding not to pay any - hypocrisy overload.

bnt

He's in the wrong country: he should emigrate to the USA and join the TEA Party. That's not Tea, as in the stuff that got dumped overboard in Boston, but TEA as in "Taxed Enough Already".

suitseir

Phill Ewinn wrote: »

http://www.irishexaminer.com/ireland/ive-had-enough-im-not-paying-my-taxes-116246.html



Some self employed man refuses to make a tax retun this year because of the state the country is in. Unhappy with services and unwilling to pay banking debts he says enough with paying tax.


The poll on teh Journal says loads of people are in favour of his protest. How about it?

Not much good to the PAYE worker!!!

Phill Ewinn

He drives a van. Some of the responses here are mad IMO. Plenty of folks pay little or no tax in the state and are encouraged to do so.

If the man in the van won't pay tax, the 'ploticians' mates won't pay their debts and every second person entitled to work is on the dole. What do we do???

Any protest is good protest at this stage.

Dudess

Who encourages people not to pay taxes?

Snakeblood

Dudess wrote: »

Who encourages people not to pay taxes?

To be fair, accountants.

draiochtanois

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DoesNotCompute

Phill Ewinn wrote: »

http://www.irishexaminer.com/ireland/ive-had-enough-im-not-paying-my-taxes-116246.html



Some self employed man refuses to make a tax retun this year because of the state the country is in. Unhappy with services and unwilling to pay banking debts he says enough with paying tax.


The poll on teh Journal says loads of people are in favour of his protest. How about it?

Fair enough, boycott taxes, but I'd bet that he'd be the first person to whinge and moan when his local Council anounces they can no longer provide certain services due to a massive shortfall in funding because of people like him boycotting charges/taxes.

Talk about shooting yourself in the foot.

Statistician

wrmwit wrote: »

It's easy for people sitting behind a computer to answer a poll saying that they're in favour of a protest but when it comes to actually protesting, most of them are no where to be seen. It usually turns out to be a couple of hundred people who will get a 5 minute slot on Liveline! We're useless at protesting here.

Half the country, including me, are not paying the household charge.

Gee Bag

Phill Ewinn wrote: »

He drives a van. Some of the responses here are mad IMO. Plenty of folks pay little or no tax in the state and are encouraged to do so.

If the man in the van won't pay tax, the 'ploticians' mates won't pay their debts and every second person entitled to work is on the dole. What do we do???

Any protest is good protest at this stage.

This entire post reads like the transcript of a call to Joe Duffy. I fail to see how this gimp's refusal to pay tax benefits the rest of us.

The vast majority of citizens pay their income tax - PAYE Workers have no choice and if you are self employed you have to, otherwise you will get walloped with additional fees by Revenue.

The vauge guff about 'ploticians' mates, makes no sense at all.

Every second person is on the dole you say? Unemployment is at 14.3% not 50%.

This attention seekers 'protest' is utterly pointless.

plasmaguy

Refusing to pay tax will in no way impact the jailing or otherwise of rogue bankers and politicians.

If anything, it will mean more cutbacks, including into the investigation of said rogue persons. Already 3 senior officers in the Anglo Irish Bank investigation were let go due to Croke Park agreement related cuts.

Dudess

Statistician wrote: »

Half the country, including me, are not paying the household charge.

And there are good reasons for protesting that tax, but a boycott on all is just unreasonable and bereft of thought.

Snakeblood

Gee Bag wrote: »

This entire post reads like the transcript of a call to Joe Duffy. I fail to see how this gimp's refusal to pay tax benefits the rest of us.

The vast majority of citizens pay their income tax - PAYE Workers have no choice and if you are self employed you have to, otherwise you will get walloped with additional fees by Revenue.

The vauge guff about 'ploticians' mates, makes no sense at all.

Every second person is on the dole you say? Unemployment is at 14.3% not 50%.

This attention seekers 'protest' is utterly pointless.

HE HAS A VAN!

ThinkAboutIt

If he's not happy then why doesn't he just get on a plane and pay his taxes somewhere else.
Typical really, just sit around doing nothing to help the situation were in while moaning his hairy arse off.
Clown.

Pharaoh1

Gee Bag wrote: »

He's unhappy with services, how does he expect them to improve if no one pays tax?

Our government has made a conscious decision that it will continue to deliberately squander much of the tax that is already receives.

Just a couple of small examples I could give loads.
Government has decided to continue to grossly overpay a large portion of its own employees especially those at the top levels. I think that by any reasonable comparison/benchmark this is generally accepted.
It doesn't have to continue to do this but it has chosen to do so.

I spoke to someone recently who had three entirely seperate means tests first for Jobseekers Allowance, then for a Medical Card and then another for Mortgage Interest Supplement.
This doesn't just happen by accident it is a deliberate policy to make sure that three people/organisations do the work of one so that money and resources can be purposely wasted (of course there are beneficiaries of this waste)

Like the bully who demands your lunch money and keeps coming back, if we continue to hand over more and more taxes we are only encouraging continued waste and overspending and by extension poorer services.


I of course understand that I have to pay taxes for essential services but I think that we are getting to the stage where people will be more reluctant to hand over more and more tax when they can clearly see that there is no serious attempt being made to address scandalous waste and overspending.
I also understand that things will never be perfect and there will always be an element of inefficiency and waste in any system but we are light years away from where we need to be given our bankrupt state.

So I can understand this guy's point of view.

My name is URL

Philipp has oversight of asset management, financial management and compliance responsibilities.

http://www.augusta.ie/directors

Riiiight

Also, has anyone pointed out that the article is two years old?

seamus

My name is URL wrote: »

Also, has anyone pointed out that the article is two years old?

Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh...

Balls.

My apologies to Phillipp so. I'm sure he has returned to paying his taxes since that government were ousted.

Gee Bag

Pharaoh1 wrote: »

Our government has made a conscious decision that it will continue to deliberately squander much of the tax that is already receives.

Just a couple of small examples I could give loads.
Government has decided to continue to grossly overpay a large portion of its own employees especially those at the top levels. I think that by any reasonable comparison/benchmark this is generally accepted.
It doesn't have to continue to do this but it has chosen to do so.

I spoke to someone recently who had three entirely seperate means tests first for Jobseekers Allowance, then for a Medical Card and then another for Mortgage Interest Supplement.
This doesn't just happen by accident it is a deliberate policy to make sure that three people/organisations do the work of one so that money and resources can be purposely wasted (of course there are beneficiaries of this waste)

Like the bully who demands your lunch money and keeps coming back, if we continue to hand over more and more taxes we are only encouraging continued waste and overspending and by extension poorer services.


I of course understand that I have to pay taxes for essential services but I think that we are getting to the stage where people will be more reluctant to hand over more and more tax when they can clearly see that there is no serious attempt being made to address scandalous waste and overspending.
I also understand that things will never be perfect and there will always be an element of inefficiency and waste in any system but we are light years away from where we need to be given our bankrupt state.

So I can understand this guy's point of view.

I wouldn't disagree with a lot of your post. I'd say we're all well aware of just how inefficent large sections of the public/civil sevice are. I'd happily get rid of 10% of them and 80% of our idiot local councillors.

However, the way I see it, income tax is the most justifiable of all taxes. I just don't see how a refusal to pay income tax benefits anyone

UglyBolloxFace

Em does nobody realise that this article and situation is well over 2 years old? The man himself even commented in a thread on this very subject over in P.ie:

http://www.politics.ie/forum/culture-community/127160-tax-strike-until-government-idiots-idiots-resigns.html

oddman2

UglyBolloxFace wrote: »

Em does nobody realise that this article and situation is well over 2 years old? The man himself even commented in a thread on this very subject over in P.ie:

http://www.politics.ie/forum/culture-community/127160-tax-strike-until-government-idiots-idiots-resigns.html

The date was the first thing I noticed about the article, how did no-one see that until now?!

Grayson

My name is URL wrote: »

http://www.augusta.ie/directors

Riiiight

Also, has anyone pointed out that the article is two years old?

does anyone else think he looks like Enda Kenny?

AngryBollix

Not only does this guy deserve jail time for tax evasion, he clearly deserves jail time for idiocy.

draiochtanois

draiochtanois wrote: »

This post has been deleted.

This being AH, I had searched for the Kent Brockman quote where he says "I don't say evasion, I say avoision". But I couldn't find it. But this should cover the point I was trying to make.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AfHRUEq1Bn8

johngalway

Not only is he an idiot but he's publicly advertising the fact to the Revenue, smart move.

Phill Ewinn

UglyBolloxFace wrote: »

Em does nobody realise that this article and situation is well over 2 years old? The man himself even commented in a thread on this very subject over in P.ie:

http://www.politics.ie/forum/culture-community/127160-tax-strike-until-government-idiots-idiots-resigns.html

Headlines in the journal and covered on two radio stations today.

Robdude

johngalway wrote: »

Not only is he an idiot but he's publicly advertising the fact to the Revenue, smart move.

He's not doing it to cheat on his taxes.
He's doing it to make a public and political statement.

He might be an idiot - but I have more respect for him than the guy next to him who just cheats on his taxes hoping to get away with it.