Why do we need to pay taxes? What is the tax for?

You need to pay taxes because taxes are taken from the people and used by the people.

tax revenue is an important part of national fiscal revenue, in order to ensure the normal operation of state machinery. Pay taxes, you can enjoy the benefits given by the state (such as compulsory education, etc.).

1. Taxation is the main form and tool for the state to organize financial revenue. Taxation plays an important role in ensuring and realizing fiscal revenue. Because tax is mandatory, free and fixed, it can ensure the stability of income; At the same time, the tax collection is very extensive, and it can raise financial revenue from many sources.

2. Taxation is one of the important levers for the state to regulate the economy. The state can regulate social production, exchange, distribution and consumption and promote the healthy development of social economy through the setting of tax categories and the provisions on tax items, tax rates, additional collection or tax reduction and exemption.

3. Taxation has the function of safeguarding state power. State power is a necessary condition for the generation and existence of tax revenue, and the existence of state power depends on the existence of tax revenue. Without taxes, the state machine can't work effectively.

4. Taxation has the function of supervising economic activities. In the process of collecting taxes, on the one hand, the state should find out the situation and correctly calculate and collect taxes; On the other hand, we can find the problems that taxpayers have in the process of production and operation, or in the process of paying taxes.

Baidu encyclopedia of taxation