TAXES. Do citizens like paying tax? The simple truth is no. If the same question is asked to MSMEs.
The answer is still no. In their minds, every small person on the street is saying, ol kaikai man, kaikai moni blo pipol igo na bel solap pinis.” All over the world, in many different countries, the story is the same.
People disapprove of paying taxes to a management that is careless, wasteful and deceiving. In PNG especially, why should citizens pay the toll fee, when all the roads are bad and deteriorating. The fee to get a safety sticker for the cars have increased and still rising.
Hospital fees are rising. School fees are rising. They pay GST, Market fees etc.
.. History clearly recorded that money collected from TAX by the State was to build and maintain public amenities such as toilets, parks, schools, hospitals, roads, bridges, jetties, airports, airstrips, markets, bus stops, footpath, public swimming pools and other service facilities considered for public conveniences/usage.
In other words, the State was collecting from the people because it was building public amenities for use by all. The State was just the manager of people’s facilities. The main reason for government collecting taxes from citizens was created in 1861 during the American Civil war.
Its primary purpose was because money was needed to finance the war effort in America. The government reasoned that in-order for the people to live freely and securely, they must contribute to the effort of sustainin.