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Not paying taxes in germany is more complicated.

Most taxes are deducted automatically. Stores collect added value tax, income taxes are deducted from wages. You can get some back, so you could cheat by declaring fraudulent returns, but if you do nothing, the tax is payed.

In this regard the USA and germany are the same, income and sales tax and everything else happens at the point you receive it. So your ability to simply not pay taxes is fairly limited. There are a few ways you can do it (these will result in lawsuits fromt he IRS but jailtime only in situations where you outright lie or something illegal).

So one way is if your full time if you list more deductions than you actually will have, then dont pay the difference at the end of year on income.

The other way is to work as a contractor, in whcih case you pay taxes at the end of the year and not when you are paid.

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