Declaring oneself married to avoid tax

Question

My annual salary is four thousand rupees, on which income tax of 75 rupees is levied for a married person and two hundred rupees for an unmarried person. I am unmarried. If, by declaring myself married to the government, I do not pay 125 rupees of income tax, is that permissible for me or not?

Answer

These rupees are, after all, your own; you did not take them from anyone else. You saved your own rupees from being given to another — you did not give them to one who takes wrongfully. They are permissible for you. However, exposing yourself to legal danger by making a false statement is no wisdom at all.

Source: Fatawa Mahmudiyya

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