Re:Biggest companies pay the least tax, shows new research
by listenallyall on Sunday April 05, 2020 @05:19PM
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The ironic part about your comment is that the exact reason the tax system is so "complex and gameable", is politicians inserting their moral values into the code.
Create a pension system to provide income stability for longtime employees? Good for you, take a tax credit.
Give money to charity? Good, take a tax credit.
Offer health insurance? Tax credit.
Invest in green energy? Tax credit.
Build a factory or office in a distressed community? Tax credit.
Pay for employees to go to school? Tax credit.
etc. etc.
And if that were the whole story, it'd be no surprise that those with more taxable income and resources would pay lower tax rates. It's true for individuals too.
However, that's not the whole story. It all depends on tax systems that are complex and gameable. And that in turn depends on political systems that are gameable, where big players can create the tax systems that they can game.
Somewhere in there we at least get to immoral.