The simple reason I enjoy paying taxes

Not everything in life is always one hundred percent pleasant. Most people don’t like paying their taxes, and I’m not going to recommend you to stop paying the tax man simply because you don’t like doing it. It would get you in trouble fairly quickly.

Personally, while I prefer to pay less tax, I don’t mind paying my taxes. Don’t get me wrong: one of the reasons I moved to the other side of the Atlantic Ocean was that Canada’s taxman is more entrepreneur-friendly than the ones I faced in Europe. It’s not the only reason, but it definitely contributed. Siphoning over more than half of your income to the taxman is simply not a model I could live with anymore.

But on the other hand, consider this. If I have a lot of taxes to pay, it means I make enough money. It’s simple math that successful people make more money and thus get taxed more than people who make minimum wage. So if I’m always looking to grow my income every year, that means I’m indirectly looking to increase my tax contributio…