{"id":23996,"date":"2014-02-12T11:04:22","date_gmt":"2014-02-12T11:04:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/?p=23996"},"modified":"2014-02-12T11:04:22","modified_gmt":"2014-02-12T11:04:22","slug":"the-non-payment-of-tax-is-an-abuse-of-human-rights","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2014\/02\/12\/the-non-payment-of-tax-is-an-abuse-of-human-rights\/","title":{"rendered":"The non-payment of tax is an abuse of human rights"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It's been <a href=\"http:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2014\/02\/11\/a-quiet-word-to-the-trolls\/comment-page-1\/#comment-681255\" target=\"_blank\">argued on the blog this morning that<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"font-size: 13px;\">Taking an individual\u2019s property infringes their human rights, and so any form of tax is depriving a person of their rights and can be seen as an abuse.\u00a0<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>This was my response (edited slightly):<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Property rights are created by law.<\/p>\n<p>Tax is also created by the same process of law.<\/p>\n<p>Tax is as a result a property right belonging to a government.<\/p>\n<p>It is widely agreed that corporations can have property rights, and indeed human rights. It follows that governments can do so too.<\/p>\n<p>That resulting right to tax \u00a0has the consequence that an individual's right to hold property is stated net of the tax due on that property's acquisition.<\/p>\n<p>The right to continue to hold the property is therefore conditional on paying that tax or the right to own it is forfeited.<\/p>\n<p>It is therefore the non-payment of tax that is an infringement of property rights and an abuse of the human rights of government ands those that it represents.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I may do some more on this later but let it be said now that this argument that tax is an abuse of rights is one with which I will have no truck.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s been argued on the blog this morning that: Taking an individual\u2019s property infringes their human rights, and so any form of tax is depriving<br \/><a class=\"moretag\" href=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2014\/02\/12\/the-non-payment-of-tax-is-an-abuse-of-human-rights\/\"><em> Read the full article&#8230;<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[97],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23996","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tax-justice"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23996","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23996"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23996\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23996"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23996"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23996"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}