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are negative taxes a real thing currently?
by StreetChief 3y ago
are negative taxes a real thing currently?
- catskul2 3y agoYes. Even in Canada they already have something similar with their carbon taxes. IIRC, tax is collected all year and returned at the end based on income rather than consumption. Not sure if it would technically be considered a negative tax, but the effect is similar.
- StreetChief 3y agoI was thinking more along the lines of my purchase price is x + y tax + -z tax. A return eventually isn't quite the same, but maybe it's effectively the same.
- abdullahkhalids 3y agoA negative tax is a subsidy, no? In Pakistan, electricity rates are slabbed. 0-100 units are charged very little - often below cost of providing the electricity. 100-200 units more, etc. So ultimately, high consumption users subsidize low consumption users. It makes sense because low consumption users are 'using' cheap electricity from hydropower/gas, but high consumption users are forcing the state to turn on expensive oil based power plants.
- StreetChief 3y agoWell I was thinking more along the lines of the price of a good is x, plus y taxes, reduced by -z tax. Subsidys might effectively be similar, but it won't be calculated the way "positive" taxes are.
- abdullahkhalids 3y agoHmmm. Don't know about the electricity market. But, again in Pakistan's Punjab province, at restaurants, if you pay by cash, sales tax is 19% and if you pay by card, sales tax is 5%. It's a method by the state to increase the size of the formal economy.