Not surprisingly, she found someone else to talk to the rest of the evening. It grieves my heart to even guess how many Christians overestimate their cash gifts to the church or self-employed individuals underestimate cash income. Larry Burkett, founder of Christian Financial Concepts, often says to expect that your commitment to honesty will cost you money. Even though I advocate an honest approach, I still think that Christians should try to take all legal means and effort to plan wisely and reduce their taxes to the lowest legal limit. Allow me to contrast tax evasion with tax avoidance.
Tax evasion is illegal and morally wrong.
A tax evader does not pay the tax he legally owes. You could go to jail for tax evasion. Tax avoidance may sound similar, but it is very different. I advocate, and you should strive after, avoiding legally all the taxes you can. Tax avoidance is the use of effective planning within the law to avoid paying more taxes than you should.