Most flat tax schemes I've heard of don't require businesses to pay the tax, for exactly that reason--it just ends up being passed on to the consumer, anyway.

Most flat tax schemes I've heard of don't require businesses to pay the tax, for exactly that reason--it just ends up being passed on to the consumer, anyway. The Fair Tax is an example: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FairTax https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FairTax