Top court rejects anti-abortion crusader’s tax case David Little loses his tax case, based on government funding of abortions. Too bad we as Canadians can not force the government to be accountable to how they spend our money.

It is funny how some people think that they don’t have enough tax problems, they invent even bigger tax problems by taking on lost causes.

The abortion battle has been fought and it is over. Women have the right to chose what is best for themselves, so let’s accept that and not turn to the tax courts to give rise to social causes irrelevant to the tax problems of this land.

I am sure David Little believed in what he was saying as evidenced by his move to a province that did not support abortion. Good for him. However he still pays more in federal tax than in provincial taxes, so that move seems kind of pointless.

I guess he made a good point on that we should question how the government spends our money. On that I can agree with him. And at least he does stand up for what he believes in.

Had he been successful in winning and bringing down the government. Well that would have been fun, eh?

My approach to solving tax problems suggests that to not get confused between tax problems and moral issues. In the mean time life goes on and we deal with the mean things CRA does to Canadians.

To learn more on solving tax problems in Canada, but not about social causes, go to [1] www.taxauditsolutions.ca

Dan White

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Top court rejects anti-abortion crusader’s tax case

Janice Tibbetts, Canwest News Service  Published: Thursday, January 14, 2010
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Top court rejects anti-abortion crusader’s tax case

OTTAWA — The Supreme Court of Canada has declined to consider an appeal from a devout Roman Catholic who refused to pay his taxes because he said he did not want his money to go toward funding abortions.

The court did not give reasons for rejecting the appeal application of David Little, an anti-abortion crusader who had unsuccessfully argued in the New Brunswick courts that forcing him to contribute to abortion funding violated his Charter of Rights guarantee of religious freedom.

The New Brunswick Court of Appeal, in a ruling last summer, concluded paying taxes does not equate to support of any particular government policy.

The appeal court also found that legitimizing Little’s claim would mean that anyone who opposed a government policy could dodge paying taxes, while still receiving public benefits, such as medical care.

Mr. Little was charged with failing to file tax returns in 2000, 2001 and 2002.

Representing himself in court, he testified that he was concerned about the moral consequences of filing tax returns, because some of his money would go toward paying for abortions, which he said was mortally repugnant to him as a Roman Catholic.

The Supreme Court’s refusal to wade into the dispute means that Mr. Little’s 2007 conviction is upheld.

Mr. Little moved last year to Prince Edward Island, which does not publicly fund abortions.