As the saying goes, there are only two certainties in life - tax and death. Christians should embrace both. It is our bounden duty. Darren Mitchell is an economist with the cabinet office of NSW and a member of the Social Issues Executive. In Jesus' day there was one group amongst the Jews, the Zealots, who opposed the payment of taxes by Jews to a pagan emperor on the grounds that this amounted to treason towards God, Israel's true and only King.
Governments are to maintain justice in the area of taxation.
In this regard justice requires a special concern for the poor. Taxes are a moral duty, an unquestionable obligation.