The overhead of compliance can be high for people not experienced with compliance. You can either paying the dumb tax directly or paying for expertise. But eve

The overhead of compliance can be high for people not experienced with compliance. You can either paying the dumb tax directly or paying for expertise. But even if the line item cost of expertise doesn't add much to overall costs, there's still the dumb tax for finding expertise. And the inevitable concerns and hiccups that come from finding new suppliers. Basically, risk and uncertainty and process change have high business costs...it might not be worth betting the business on getting all the details right.