Do professionals have to pay taxes?

Answer 1

Professional whats?

Actually, by law, everyone must pay taxes to the commonwealth in which they live and for any services or products they pay for which are deemed taxable.

It's just that the tax laws are written to favor the wealthy.

Of course professionals pay taxes...in fact much more than all others combined...and historically....they and the aristocracy were frequently the only ones to do so. More clearly, they use less of the things taxes are needed to pay for...(they don't use public services much), and just as clearly, buy many more things that have sales, excise and other taxes placed on them than those who live at a more substance level.

Facts: http://www.taxfoundation.org/taxdata/show/250.html Where the independent and in depth analysis to support (the top 1% of earners pay 40% of all the tax): "This year's numbers show that both the income share earned by the top 1 percent and the tax share paid by the top 1 percent have reached all-time highs. In 2005, the top 1 percent of tax returns paid 39.4 percent of all federal individual income taxes and earned 21.2 percent of adjusted gross income, both of which are significantly higher than 2004 when the top 1 percent earned 19 percent of AGI and paid 36.9 percent of federal individual income taxes." And "The top-earning 25 percent of taxpayers (AGI over $62,068) earned 67.5 percent of the nation's income, but they paid more than four out of every five dollars collected by the federal income tax (86 percent). The top 1 percent of taxpayers (AGI over $364,657) earned approximately 21.2 percent of the nation's income (as defined by AGI), yet paid 39.4 percent of all federal income taxes. That means the top 1 percent of tax returns paid about the same amount of federal individual income taxes as the bottom 95 percent of tax returns."