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Reminds me of when Marvel argued in court that their mutant characters are non-human because human dolls were taxed differently https://boingboing.net/2012/02/2
by beardog 5y ago
Reminds me of when Marvel argued in court that their mutant characters are non-human because human dolls were taxed differently https://boingboing.net/2012/02/21/marvel-comics-to-us-govt-mu.html https://boingboing.net/2012/02/21/marvel-comics-to-us-govt-m...
- smilespray 5y agoI'm going to steal that idea and give myself a few mutations to avoid income tax.
- ragazzina 5y agoThe same applies to Santa suits: should they be taxed as a dress or as a costume? https://www.npr.org/sections/money/2017/12/20/571645063/episode-670-the-santa-suit https://www.npr.org/sections/money/2017/12/20/571645063/epis...
- pmarreck 5y agoReminds me of when people routinely (and entirely legally) use tax loopholes to avoid paying tax. The problem is that no one even tries to pay a dime more taxes than is legally necessary. And yet those people are routinely attacked instead of the laws themselves, which to me seems completely absurd. A person should no sooner pay "the spirit of" the amount of tax they "should" owe, than the IRS would forgive a restaurant some tax during the pandemic since "the spirit of" tax wouldn't sink businesses temporarily set back by pandemics.
- arbitrary_name 5y agoExcept when those people fight against any proposed changes to the regulation, or actively influence the development of the legislation in the first place, at which point many people perceive them as using their resources to further entrench their privilege.