Wanna really make their day? Pay with cash.
Cutting Google out of the mix can be seen as a net positive for the community. The same can't really be said for taxes that go to your local services.
I know it's considered a sport but a moral duty?
By avoiding paying taxes, you first and foremost damage the community you live in.
It’s a big stretch to assume that the current tax regime is related in any way to the will of the group of people who are currently subjected to it.
Of course the legal and ethical way to perform a tax protest is to simply have so little income that you don't owe them a thing
That's the way it works. If you're really wealthy your team of accountants can find all sorts of ways to hide income and reduce it to zero or less. The more money you have coming in the less income you have to report, until the government you bought fair and square ends up owing you. Taxation is wonderful extra teat at which to suckle.
It is very plainly morally and ethically unambiguous to pay in cash.
> very plainly morally and ethically unambiguous
unambiguous[ly] _what_? Bad? Good?
Cash is good and I accept 0% of the blame of what other people do in response to me paying them with cash instead of something else.
This seems like a trope put forth by the middle men other than the government who want to keep getting their cut of every transaction in the world. "Don't cut out Visa and PayPal, that's practically stealing from your neighbor!"
You can obviously accept payment in cash and report it as taxable income, and not doing this is a good way to get caught, because if you're spending thousands of dollars a year more than you're declaring in income and the government asks you where it came from, you're going to have a bad time.
Meanwhile people who want to risk going to jail can do it just as well by deducting personal expenses as business expenses, or just making up business expenses and hoping nobody comes to check. All while letting payment processors siphon off something like 5% of your gross revenue, which for these kinds of things is often in excess of half your net income because your net margins were less than 10% to begin with.