Why do we pay taxes?
Channel: Civics Academy SA
Date: 2016-02-02

Governments provide public services such as police services and roads to the public. The public does not pay directly for these goods and services or for the time of public servants when they visit government offices, but indirectly be means of taxation. The government must therefore regularly decide how much to spend, what to spend it on and how to finance its expenditure. This is the reason why we pay taxes.