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If you don't want to be taxed in that manner, just make sure you are completely independent of the government. That will mean you self-custody and take responsibility of your bitcoins rather than depending on exchanges licensed and supported by your governmentsgovernment.
The idea behind taxationtaxations is to enable government togovernments fund things people who pay the taxes will benefit from. So if you don't want to be part of it then you make sure you don't benefit from things funded with taxes. One of the best way to ensure this doesn't happen is to live seperately in places where you are unlikely to benefit from tax funded services, infrastructures, etc. That would likely be remote placescommunities where people provide for all their personal needs and sometimes contribute money to fund public infrastructures/services.  Same is applicable in cyberspace, you can just join a opensourceopensourced, decentralized communities where people provide all their needs and are independent of the typical governments.

It's not ethical or moral to dodge taxes when you are supposed to contribute. But if you selfcustody without relying on government in anyway it becomes moral. If you are worried about governments abusing this in the name of penalizing you for not paying taxes, even though you don't benefit from the tax funded services/infrastructures, you could simply go fully decentralized and don't pass through governments licensed platforms. There is nothing wrong in doing this as long as you are completely independent of the government.
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Scraped on 04/07/2025, 20:25:30 UTC
If you don't want to be taxed in that manner, just make sure you are completely independent of the government. That will mean you self-custody and take responsibility of your bitcoins rather than depending on exchanges licensed and supported by your governments.
The idea behind taxation is to enable government to fund things people who pay the taxes will benefit from. So if you don't want to be part of it then you make sure you don't benefit from things funded with taxes. One of the best way to ensure this doesn't happen is live seperately in places where you are unlikely to benefit from tax funded services, infrastructures, etc. That would likely be remote places where people provide for all their personal needs and sometimes contribute money to fund public infrastructures/services.  Same is applicable in cyberspace, you can just join a opensource, decentralized communities where people provide all their needs and are independent of the typical governments.

It's not ethical or moral to dodge taxes when you are supposed to contribute. But if you selfcustody without relying on government in anyway it becomes moral. If you are worried about governments abusing this in the name of penalizing you for not paying taxes, even though you don't benefit from the tax funded services/infrastructures, you could go fully decentralized and don't pass through governments licensed platforms. There is nothing wrong in doing this as long as you are completely independent of the government.