Are there any statistics on money donated to the government?

With the IRS, who would want to??

With my little business, I don’t make enough to have to pay income tax. But they still get me with the Self-Employment tax.

Like @kritiper I ran a small cleaning business. They apparently assumed that I made a significant amount of my income from cash over what I declared, so they taxed me at 30%. I always declared every dime, but their taxes meant I had to charge 30% over minimum wage just to make minimum wage. I also lost money by cleaning my neighbors’ homes because I couldn’t write off the mileage it took to get to their homes. The US tax system is corrupt. And they are convinced that we are.

Medicare is the same way. The whole thing is a scam, IMO.

The US government mentality is, “It’s better to bleed ‘em dry (enforced donation) than let them succeed.”

The government is the last place I’d donate money to. It would be mostly squandered on a vast complex of administrative workers that push money around.

No, no one has ever collected such statistics, ever.

So it’s hard to say, because of that, but I’m pretty sure no one every in all of time in any country has ever donated money to the government. Nope.

Not that I know of, but I know many people who don’t claim as many write-offs as they probably could. I don’t claim as much as I could. I don’t want to push it and then be audited.

On the opposite end I’ve known people who buy clothes for their entire family and put it on their business and taking their family to dinner. They deduct their entire cable bill, including television service when the business has nothing to do with watching TV. I probably could have legitimately added some clothing I bought for work when I owned a golf cart repair, but I didn’t do it.

If the deficit was closer to zero maybe a billionaire would donate money, but the country is so in debt even a billion dollars only makes a small dent. Plus, I think the government needs to show more care about wanting a balanced budget for anyone to consider donating a significant amount of money.

I’m in the US.

I think in Qatar the King spends a lot of his own money on building things for the country?