But ultimately, at the end of the road, are not all taxes levied against businesses effectively paid by their consumers in the ultimate price of the product/ser

But ultimately, at the end of the road, are not all taxes levied against businesses effectively paid by their consumers in the ultimate price of the product/service provided by the business? The business does not make money appear from thin air. Any money that goes from the business to the tax authority has to have originally arrived in the business from a customer buying the product or service offered.