You know the tax system has you when someone skipping a receipt feels illegal.
Adam Hudson was at a dinner in Panama. The host paid the bill for 50 people and waved off the receipt without a second thought.
10 Australians at the table looked at each other like something had gone wrong.
Because in Australia, that receipt is everything. Log it, separate alcohol, photograph it, email it to your bookkeeper. That's automatic.
The host earns outside Panama. He pays no tax there. He's never had to learn what a "tax deduction" means. Because he has nothing to deduct from.
Adam calls leaving the Australian tax system leaving an abusive relationship. And the receipt story is exactly why.
Even when you're free, you're still flinching.