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Perhaps if you are a political enemy of $political_party_in_power.
by cgore 13y ago
Perhaps if you are a political enemy of $political_party_in_power.
- mcantelon 13y agoGood point.
- jasonwocky 13y agoI'm a political enemy of anybody who habitually doesn't pay their taxes, and thus by extension, raises mine.
- mcantelon 13y agoYou must boycott a lot of corporations.
- hbags 13y agoThere's a difference between using legal tax structures to reduce (or eliminate) your bill, and simply not paying your taxes.
- mcantelon 13y agoThe end result is the other guy has to pay your fair share of the taxes.
- gtCameron 13y agoSo how do you define "fair share" if it is not defined by following the tax laws as written?
- mcantelon 13y agoFairness is defined by law? Interesting idea. By "fair share" I mean, unsurprisingly, a share that is fair. Corporations are subject to taxation. A corporation that makes healthy profits, in part driven by publicly funded infrastructure, should be required to give back to maintain said infrastructure.
- grey-area 13y agoTypically corps accused of avoiding tax earn no profits after their myriad coats are applied, that's how they avoid taxes. While governments could probably do more to charge corps tax, this is a complex grey area and there is no simple way to define fair or collect taxes as accounting rules are so complex. If you tax revenue you penalise new companies, if you tax profit it is easy for corps to find costs or transfer funds to shield profits.
- mcantelon 13y agoThey play lots of shell games to hide the profits, yes, and it is complex. I'm more talking more about the big picture than specifics because, as you point out, this is an involved topic which involves a great deal of money. A lot of effort has gone into creating arguments to justify the idea that workers should have to pay all costs of public infrastructure.
- smtddr 13y agoI would say "intent" of law, rather than what actually happens. e.g., the reason we call tax loopholes, "loopholes", is because the consensus is that they're being used to defeat the intent of law. Megacorp with a shell company of zero employees in Ireland using the double irish[1] I think means the company isn't paying their "fair share". 1. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Double_Irish_arrangement http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Double_Irish_arrangement
- bostonpete 13y agoI don't see how being a political enemy implies that an individual would boycott a corporation. If my "enemy" is offering me a deal that is beneficial to me, then I make that deal.
- jasonwocky 13y agoI don't buy things from the vast majority of corporations in existence.
- VMG 13y agoAre you, by extension, raising the taxes for everybody else by ideologically supporting the current system? Do you feel responsible for all negative consequences caused by your tax dollars?
- jasonwocky 13y ago> Do you feel responsible for all negative consequences caused by your tax dollars? I've got other political enemies as well. If by "negative consequences of my tax dollars", you mean "things our governments spend money on that I disagree with"...no, I don't feel wholly responsible for them, since I fight the proponents of those things, too.
- VMG 13y agoSo are those who avoid paying taxes but fight for lower taxes also your political enemies?
- samolang 13y agoDo you pay sales tax on all of your internet purchases?
- Loughla 13y agoPretty sure you're supposed to. . . . .
- samolang 13y agoYes, but most people only do so for purchases where the website forces you to at the time of purchase (i.e. the company operates in your state).
- jasonwocky 13y agoIn New York, we can opt pay a flat yearly "Use tax" for an unlimited number items purchased over the Internet from outside of NYS that cost less than $1,000 each. For me, it's about $100, and yes I pay it. Items purchased online in NYS are subject to sales tax at the time of the transaction, and the burden is on the vendor to collect it.
- aestra 13y agoThank you.