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I'm not sure if revenue taxes are the better idea: they will impact low-margin businesses (e.g. restaurants) hard.
by kibibyte 6y ago
I'm not sure if revenue taxes are the better idea: they will impact low-margin businesses (e.g. restaurants) hard.
- raverbashing 6y agoThis is actually doable, though you need specific classifications for each business You can set a fee of 3% for restaurants let's say, and 10% for some other business (example) This makes sense for small business
- bryanrasmussen 6y agoAmazon restaurant chain starting up, it's amazing how much of Amazon's money needs to be moved into that subsidiary.
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- akvadrako 6y agoI would assume they would raise prices so margins stay similar, though I don't know if that's been experimented with. Even if it does mean less restaurants and less eating out, there is nothing inherently more unfair about it.
- Aunche 6y agoThat just benefits vertical integration. Amazon would pay less taxes in Amazon basics than third party goods. What you really want is a VAT. You're only taxed on the value add of your product. It's widely regarded as the most efficient tax and the US is one of the only countries that doesn't use it.
- akvadrako 6y agoI agree there are some issues with a revenue tax, but VAT isn't good enough because you really want to capture B2B transactions. You can also see for example the digital services tax introduced by France because VAT was not proving effective.