The only real incentive is to avoid prosecution. They love when you don't pay your taxes. Then they can incarcerate you as part of the prison industrial complex, where they can force you to work for free while they keep all of the profits. In China, sometimes they just harvest your organs instead. You can pay your taxes and still reconfigure your affairs to pay the absolute minimum taxes possible. This would include stuff like running your own business, and relocating to a low tax jurisdiction. Through these and other legal approaches, you can retain a vastly greater percentage of your own income over your lifetime. Why help out those fuckers at all? Give them as little as you legally can. I have the same attitude about the banks in general. Yes, banks are needed, and no, you should not enrich them unnecessarily. I do almost no business with banks. I haven't made a credit card purchase in at least three years. I prefer to keep my transactions local and private to the greatest extent possible. My home is fully paid for. I am not happy about my property taxes and utilities rates, but at least most of that money is spent on the local community. Much of it is used to indoctrinate the local children in SJW faggot communism, which is another major source of my displeasure. My pedophile leader recently brought us the wonder of Carbon taxes, raising the cost of all of my energy purchases by 20% to fight global warming which does not actually exist. They tax the food I eat, the water I drink, the air I breath, the land I live on, and everything I buy or sell. Small wonder people choose to live a life of crime. Criminal proceeds are, after all, tax free.