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> If you abolish corporate taxation, (rich) people will just use them to avoid taxes. That's already a loophole, or it would be, except the tax code has alread
by Lazare 8y ago
> If you abolish corporate taxation, (rich) people will just use them to avoid taxes.
That's already a loophole, or it would be, except the tax code has already closed it. You're about 40 years too late.
> Company car? Check.
Already taxed, heavily. The whole "just hide your income in a company" gambit doesn't work. Corporations are already taxed much lower than the top marginal rate of income, so people already want to do this.
> Money sitting on a bank ledger can't do nearly as much as money in a venture capital fund.
The whole point of a "bank" as a concept is that they solve this issue through maturity transformation. Your money doesn't just sit on a bank ledger; it gets lent out to do things such as, yes, invest in venture capital funds.
- gcb0 8y agoit now have to be overseas company in Panama... because the upper middle class was getting in on the corporate tax thing so they had to raise the bar just a little to keep the status quo.