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The tax you cannot escape
Consumption, survival, and the taxation of everyday life She buys food. VAT is already embedded in its price. She buys fuel. Excise is already embedded in its price. She buys soap, maize flour, school supplies. Tariffs are already embedded in their prices. There is no moment before tax. There is no space outside it. There is no way around survival costs that are already structured by fiscal design. Consumption is not where taxation begins. It is where taxation becom
Nite Tanzarn
May 216 min read
The time tax: Hours already taken
This series has named the care tax — the invisible extraction that sustains households and economies. Now we ask: what does that extraction do to a day? To a body? To a life? This is the time tax. She wakes before dawn She wakes at 4am. Not by choice. By necessity. The water queue starts before sunrise. If she is not there, there is no water for cooking, washing, drinking. She queues. She carries twenty litres home. Her back already aches. The market opens at 6am. S
Nite Tanzarn
May 116 min read
The tax no one names
She wakes before dawn. The house is still dark. She fetches water. She prepares food. She readies children. Her day begins before the recognised working day starts — and continues long after it ends. Care work is not seen. It is not recognised. It is not recorded. It is not paid. It is not valued. This article is not about care work. It is about the extraction that care work enables. It is about the tax no one names. Care as extraction Care tax is the socially constructed
Nite Tanzarn
May 56 min read
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