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I foresee big box stores constructing 4 isolated parking lots, one on each side of the store instead of one big one. The land for each one could even be owned b

I foresee big box stores constructing 4 isolated parking lots, one on each side of the store instead of one big one. The land for each one could even be owned by separate shell corps if needed. That would still be cheaper, less maintenance, and they don't have to worry about customers with tall vehicles. They should be giving incentives for people to do this not beat them over the head with it.

euroderf 4y ago
The lengths people will go to to resist doing The Right Thing (TM).
kranke155 4y ago
France is not like the US. Trying to do this will get you in trouble.
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- macinjosh 4y ago
  I never mentioned France nor the US in my comment. Clearly this sort of thing is a trend and will be tried everywhere. That is what I was talking about.
  - staticman2 4y ago
    In the U.S. there's a not very often used doctrine in taxes called the step transaction doctrine which says if taxpayers manipulated either the economics or the timing of a business transactions to obtain favorable tax treatment, the IRS may be able to tax the taxpayer as if they had not structured the transaction to avoid taxes. Similarly if the French court or legislature wanted to avoid loopholes like this the law can be written to say, essentially "You created 4 different parking companies to avoid the regulation but we are treating this as one parking company for purposes of the regulation since you only structured it this way in an attempt to avoid the regulation, you had no other economic basis to do so, so you and everyone else part of this transaction are completely on the hook for following this law." This is a matter of political will, of course. But your comment completely ignores the fact that the legal system can be designed not to have the loopholes you say will occur.
    - macinjosh 4y ago
      Wrong. Controlling people like this with law upon law upon law is a never-ending game of cat and mouse that will, in the long term, end with an authoritarian regime if no loopholes can be tolerated.

euroderf 4y ago

The lengths people will go to to resist doing The Right Thing (TM).

kranke155 4y ago

France is not like the US. Trying to do this will get you in trouble.

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macinjosh 4y ago
I never mentioned France nor the US in my comment. Clearly this sort of thing is a trend and will be tried everywhere. That is what I was talking about.
- staticman2 4y ago
  In the U.S. there's a not very often used doctrine in taxes called the step transaction doctrine which says if taxpayers manipulated either the economics or the timing of a business transactions to obtain favorable tax treatment, the IRS may be able to tax the taxpayer as if they had not structured the transaction to avoid taxes. Similarly if the French court or legislature wanted to avoid loopholes like this the law can be written to say, essentially "You created 4 different parking companies to avoid the regulation but we are treating this as one parking company for purposes of the regulation since you only structured it this way in an attempt to avoid the regulation, you had no other economic basis to do so, so you and everyone else part of this transaction are completely on the hook for following this law." This is a matter of political will, of course. But your comment completely ignores the fact that the legal system can be designed not to have the loopholes you say will occur.
  - macinjosh 4y ago
    Wrong. Controlling people like this with law upon law upon law is a never-ending game of cat and mouse that will, in the long term, end with an authoritarian regime if no loopholes can be tolerated.