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> Any discretionary power given to the tax office is an open invite for corruption. As opposed to the corruption, hollywood accounting, and tax dodging that g
by autoexec 3y ago
> Any discretionary power given to the tax office is an open invite for corruption.
As opposed to the corruption, hollywood accounting, and tax dodging that goes on currently? A little bit of sanity in the system to close up loopholes and prevent tax avoidance seems like the ideal situation. What we have now is clearly broken. It should never be profitable to just burn money for a tax credit. I don't even see why it would need to be discretionary, it could be a fairly simple rule change to forbid exactly this kind of practice.
- avs733 3y agomy sense is that our society treats government corruption as significantly more problematic than private, individual, or corporate corruption. Not taking a position...just noting
- autoexec 3y agoThat doesn't seem entirely unreasonable since our government is explicitly supposed to work for the people while corporations should be expected to do everything and anything they can to exploit us if doing so will make them more money. It's for that reason companies will always need to be constrained by strong laws and regulations with teeth. When the government screws us over it's a betrayal. When a corporation screws us over that's just what they do (and a sign that we need stronger protections against whatever they just did)