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Re:The Paradise Papers: How Ridiculously Easy It Is for the ... by gozur88 on Friday November 17, 2017 @12:20PM (#15723896)
Flat tax systems sound good in theory, but they don't address the problem, which is what counts as income.
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Re:The Paradise Papers: How Ridiculously Easy It Is for the ... by al_chemist on Friday November 17, 2017 @09:27PM (#15727452)
Flat $100 per month per person. It's like UBI except it's tax.
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Re:The Paradise Papers: How Ridiculously Easy It Is for the ... by a_c_s on Friday November 17, 2017 @01:54PM (#15724874)
Yeah, I think we need to flatten them a different way: tax corporations and individuals on a percentage of revenue (income) they earn.

Then it becomes very expensive to create a shell company to launder money through and games like paying oneself through a corporation lose their appeal.

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Re:The Paradise Papers: How Ridiculously Easy It Is for the ... by gozur88 on Friday November 17, 2017 @03:29PM (#15725716)
It also becomes impossible to make low margin products, which would pretty much wreck the economy.
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