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Re:How the Maker of TurboTax Fought Free, Simple Tax Filing ... by tracker1 on Monday March 13, 2017 @04:20AM (#13856082)
In fairness most corporations shouldn't be paying taxes... their investors and customers do though. Also, corporations shouldn't have legal "personhood" or rights to invest in political agendas either. Also, corporate owned property that is unutilized or underutilized should probably be subject to forfeiture for better use.

But that's because I feel that corporations should be mostly about collective ownership and protection from direct liability. It shouldn't be a carte blance.

Re:How the Maker of TurboTax Fought Free, Simple Tax Filing ... by wallace_f on Monday March 13, 2017 @04:51AM (#13856212)
Well, whether or not corporate income taxation is a good thing or not is up for debate, and it has to do with your own politics. However, I think it's crazy that we have it written in law that corporations should pay income tax, but there's enough lawyers and loopholes that 1/5 of them don't. Meanwhile making some side-cash on ebay could possibly garner attention from the IRS..? It's a misalignment of incentives.
Re:How the Maker of TurboTax Fought Free, Simple Tax Filing ... by tracker1 on Monday March 13, 2017 @02:03PM (#13860536)
A VAT and tax on currency exchanges instead of income taxes would probably work out better all around... But that would be a huge shift. But in general, corporations serve as collective ownership and have dividends, labor, and other purchases and expenses. These can/should be taxed.. but income tax on a corporation is kind of counter-intuitive to me, only because a "corporation" doesn't actually pay tax, it's their customers. It doesn't come from, or go to nowhere.