Why You Should Pay Your Taxes: Ask Catherine Excerpt

Claire V.
January 12, 2026

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Why You Should Pay Your Taxes

Ask Catherine Excerpt

January 12, 2026

Ambrogio Lorenzetti, 1339. Effects of Good Government in the City. Fresco. Palazzo Pubblico, Siena. Photo: Wikimedia Commons Public Domain

“You get real power by bringing the law and being somebody that your fellow citizen can trust.”

~ Catherine Austin Fitts

A question not infrequently submitted to Ask Catherine & the Solari Team is, “Why should I pay my taxes?” In this audio excerpt (above) from the Ask Catherine episode published on January 9, 2026, Catherine and Carolyn explain why paying taxes is important. (Their answer is framed from a U.S. perspective but is applicable elsewhere.)

Americans are understandably frustrated with a governance system that is stealing, grifting, and behaving in corrupt ways. However, abrogating one’s responsibilities and destroying trust by not paying taxes is not a solution. Millions of people in America depend on good things funded by tax dollars. The solution is to bring the law and defend and protect the Constitution and the covenant Americans have with one another.

As Catherine also points out:

Now that they’ve stolen all the money, the top guys would love for us to implode the system…. There’s nothing they [would] love more [than] for everybody who believes in freedom to not pay their taxes, and then they’ve got a straight shot to get you when the time comes. If they want to declare you a ‘domestic terrorist’ and come after you, you just gave them a clean shot.”

Read Solari’s 2021 report titled Taxation: With or Without Representation, by Catherine and Carolyn, for an excellent in-depth discussion about why taxpayers’ and legislators’ focus should be on holding the government accountable for upholding the financial management laws. Taxation—with or without representation—is at the very heart of the matter.

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5 Comments

  1. Hello, yes, you can file an extension for your taxes however,, it’s my understanding you are still responsible to pay the full amount of what’s owed on April 15. The extension is not an extension of the payment it’s an extension of the paperwork.

  2. I would like to call your attention to the Revocation of Election process that is available to American Nationals. The best way I’ve found to explain the details of this is to go to: https://www.scribd.com/document/439431016/Revocation-of-Election,
    and read the multitude of reports from the US Courts, the IRS, the Treasury Department that details the how and why for For American Nationals, (sometimes in official code also referred to as Nonresident Aliens) of our 50 states to stop paying FEDERAL INCOME TAXES, LEGALLY. According to the Grace Commission Report (commissioned by President REagan and presented to both house of congress in 1986(?)), 100% of the funds collected by the IRS, go to pay the interest on the Federal debt, which means it goes to the privately operated and owned Federal Reserve and the “secret/unknown” owners.
    Catherine and Carolyn, I’m surprised that you are not aware of how this financial scheme works. By paying these taxes you are supporting the cabals that are working to enslave you. After I did my revocation of election 13 years ago, I now have the funds (that I am not providing to the tyrants that are enslaving us) to help financially support independent local community initiatives, and yet meanwhile I gladly still pay the local taxes that provide funding for my community (roads, bridges, schools, etc.).
    I’m doing my fair share, and fighting the cabal, come join me and the others… it is a fun fight!

    1. William:

      It also goes to pension funds, institutional investors and sovereign wealth funds around the world who bought the debt in good faith. Solari Report’s subscribers are almost all dependent on banks and insurance companies and personal accounts that depend on the payment of interest on federal debt,

      Hope that helps,

      Catherine

      1. To be clear, according to your reply, the funds collected through Federal IRS taxes are no longer following the distribution shown by the Grace Commission (i.e. 100% to pay to the Federal Reserve for debt service), and has now changed such that the funds also go to pension funds, institutional investors and sovereign wealth funds, plus Solari Report’s subscribers are almost all dependent on banks and insurance companies and personal accounts that depend on the payment of interest on the federal debt.
        My questions now are;
        -Is there a reliable and verifiable source for determining exactly what percentage of the IRS Taxes goes to each of these ‘dependents’? (Especially what percentage goes to the Federal Reserve?)
        -Do you believe it is in our best interest to rely on a secret and non-audited entity like the Federal Reserve to provide these so called “banking services”?
        -Do you (or someone like Richard Weiner) have a design for our banking, debt service, and taxes that would be fair and equitable in practice?
        – Since it is in the IRS Tax Title 26 USC that
        a) Nonresident Aliens (or, in some cases called American Nationals, which is the IRS terminology/definition to identify the citizens of the 50 States that are not US Citizens), are not mandated or required to file or pay IRS taxes, but have the opportunity to “volunteer” to file and pay taxes as if they were US Citizens,
        b) these same Nonresident Aliens can revoke their volunteer status (as shown in the same Title 26 USC),
        c) why would it be ‘risker’ to exit the IRS tax system and by default cause a reorganization of our financial systems that would be more aptly based on our Constitution and less prone to plunder,
        d) is this not one of the ways the wealthy and large corporations avoid paying taxes?

        -Thanks for your generous time and wisdom in addressing this critical issue for many of us nonresident aliens, aka American Nationals.

        1. William:

          As I said, I have not read the 47 volumes of the Grace Commission. Important when it comes to taxes that each person take responsibility to do what they think is appropriate for them. I have published what I do and why I do it. Always welcome each of us to do the same,

          Hope that helps,

          Catherine

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