TAX(ING) AND TOUT(ING)

   TAX(ING) AND TOUT(ING) Tax,according to the English dictionary, is a sum of money demanded by a government for its support or for specific facilities or services,property,sales,etc. It's also a burdensome charge,obligation,duty or demand. Tax resistance existed ever since the beginning of civilization and imposition of tax. Many revolutions have been promoted by resentment of taxation,example is the American and French revocation,the magna Carta. Over the years,successive governments around the world have resolved to different means of tax collection or charging. The method derived by Africans,Nigeria,as case study is what will bring us to the definition of the word "TOUT(ING)". Tout,referring to the ENglish dictionary again,it's to solicit business ,employment ,votes,or the like,importunately .Majority of you my readers have left the shores of the country and are abreast with the easy/flawless approach of the Europeans and other western world in tax collection. Now coming back home,we all are aware of the mayhems caused by touts of the motor garages,abattoir ,motorcycle riders parks and civilians claiming to be council officials. Hundreds of lives have been lost in the battle for supremacy among this touts,an action that has gone unpunished by regulatory authorities. It shouldn't be a surprise that the emergence of the social miscreants can be traced to have originated from our government. Government in it's effort to be less confrontational in collecting tax from the aggrieved motorist, whose complains of bad roads,and not feeling any good effect of previous taxes payed the government had to be checked by their likes who are jobless. This gave rise to the use of touts to tax commercial motorist daily for plying the roads,same method applies to  motorcycle riders. The touts initially disguises as local council officials,but letter metamorphosed into the now NURTW that gave birth to the infamous "agbero" clans,the notorious blood thirsty garage gangs. This same method was applied to abattoirs,where touts said to be sent by Local councils are employed to force sales tax on butcher violently. Market men/Women are daily subjected to harassment by council touts,or by special "violent" task forces set up by various government to check task resistance. The touts you see daily jumping in front of okada riders with a piece of roughened ticket at hand are dully endorsed by your local council to force out tax from okada riders violently.  The word tax cannot stand alone in our society without touts and every single act of the various street miscreants started from the policy of forcefully compelling citizens to pay tax. Reistance to tax payment can be viewed from different angles,as revolution against it differs from culture to culture . While some countries are commissioning Dams,we are rolling out drums to commission boreholes,benefits and tax returns are paid in western worlds to minimize poverty level,we were distributing bicycles,motorcycles ,tricycles as poverty 'eradication' measures,and we pay taxes like other Nations. It's no surprise that armed law enforcement agents follows tax officers around to intimidate tax payers in a democratic setting. In conclusion,I think giving what belongs to Caesar to Caesar isn't as easy as thought,Jesus himself was accused of promoting tax resistance prior to his torture and execution; "we found this fellow perverting the nation,and forbidding to give tribute to Caesar "- luke23:2 .