The missing profits of nations

Re:The missing profits of nations by leetcrew on Thursday July 26, 2018 @03:27PM (#17620216)

i don't intend to argue GP's point for them, but it is important to be aware of the difference between paying a tax and actually bearing the burden of that tax. if (hypothetically) you increase some tax by 5% and all the companies raise their prices by 5%, you might end up with a situation where the companies "pay" the tax, but it entirely comes from the pockets of consumers. this is called tax incidence, and you can read more about it here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tax_incidence

the corporate tax is actually very controversial among economists. it seems like a straightforward case of "making the big corps pay", but there is very little consensus as to who ultimately foots the bill for this type of tax.

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Re:The missing profits of nations by ThrustVectoring on Thursday July 26, 2018 @03:36PM (#17620280)

Agreed. This is one of the reasons why a land-value tax is so good, in my opinion. Pretty much all of the burden of the tax is placed on landlords - if they could raise rents, they'd have already done so, so the tax pretty much entirely comes from the unearned value generated by holding the right to use a piece of land.

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Re:The missing profits of nations by leetcrew on Friday July 27, 2018 @08:13AM (#17625365)

LVT is very appealing from the theoretical perspective. i would very much like to see it play out at scale somewhere. unfortunately, while it is fairly easy to add new taxes, you rarely see a new tax substituted for an old one.

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