Is It Right to Pay Taxes to a Corrupt Government?

O Learned and Devoted Servants of God,

[Shri Anil Antony asked: Some people try to avoid paying tax to government saying that it goes to corruption officials and is not reaching the needy. Kindly give Your opinion on this.]

Swami replied:- If you are getting an opportunity not to pay the tax, you can use it for feeding beggars and poor. But, there are good officers also, who are not interested in the corruption. The best way is to pay the tax to the Government and propagate true spiritual knowledge in the world so that corruption is eradicated. In such program, God will certainly help you. The whole problem is due to lack of spiritual knowledge that preaches the existence of unimaginable omniscient-omnipotent God, who will punish the sinners even if they escape the law on this land through influence, corruption and intellectual tricks. If this spiritual knowledge is given importance in Education system as was done previously in the ancient times, there is no need of police and court. The resistance to sin becomes in-built in the citizens and corruption is avoided not due to fear from police and courts, but, due to fear from the omniscient and omnipotent God from whom you can never escape. The control systems fail because they are also corrupt!

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