History & cultureAndreas WurzHutterites File Taxes on Money They've Never Seen

Hutterites File Taxes on Money They've Never Seen

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Published Oct 9, 2026, 10:30 PM · 6d ago

Andreas Wurz
Andreas Wurz
425 subscribers · median 2.4K views
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477
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11
2.3% of views
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0.21% of views

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Every spring, a tax return is filed for every adult on a Hutterite colony. Every one of those returns reports an income, and not one of the people named on them has ever held a dollar of it. I'm Andreas Wurz, and I keep the books on a Hutterite colony in southern Alberta. In this video: how a people with no wages pays income tax, the court case the colonies won in 1975, the law Parliament wrote two years later, why a married woman's return shows only half a share, and the sentence a court once wrote about my income that is truer than anything else written about us. Sources - Standing Senate Committee on Banking, Commerce and the Economy, hearing on Hutterite taxation (29 March 2018): https://sencanada.ca/en/Content/SEN/Committee/421/banc/37ev-53931-e - Senate committee report (31 May 2018): https://sencanada.ca/en/committees/report/57788/42-1 - The Western Producer, "Yes, Hutterites do pay taxes" (June 2018): https://www.producer.com/?p=200278 - Osgoode Hall Law School, TheCourt.ca, on section 143 and Blackmore v The Queen (2013 TCC 264): https://yorku.ca/osgoode/thecourt/?p=12645 About the narrator: Andreas Wurz is a composite character. His voice and image are AI-generated. The facts in this video come from the sources above.

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