4 ms·
Funny though.. ALL taxes are passed to the customer. Businesses don’t pay taxes, customers do.
by briandear 9y ago
Funny though.. ALL taxes are passed to the customer. Businesses don’t pay taxes, customers do.
- colechristensen 9y agoThen customers don't pay taxes, their employers do. You can keep going around in circles adding another link to who pays pointing to where they got their money. Saying anyone else but the entity signing the check pays a tax gets silly. The only time you can dispute this is when the tax is directly on an activity that requires two participants. Who pays sales tax, the buyer or the seller?
- blackbagboys 9y agoThis is in fact not an irresolvable metaphysical dispute but an introductory undergraduate economics problem, and the answer is that it depends on the elasticity of the market.
- leetcrew 9y agotax incidence is not nearly as simple as you are making it out to be. how much the tax cuts into the business's surplus vs the customer's totally depends on the situation.