Re:Biggest companies pay the least tax, shows new research
by pas on Sunday April 05, 2020 @03:14PM
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Shifting more tax burden off oneself than the amount of extra tax income one's economic growth (due to the lessened tax burden) creates is immoral, because it's basically freeloading on others.
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Re:Biggest companies pay the least tax, shows new research
by listenallyall on Sunday April 05, 2020 @06:21PM
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If you spend $10 million providing health insurance to employees, then take a tax credit of $2.1 million (based on current US corp tax rate of 21%), how exactly are you freeloading? And would your employees be better off if you abandoned that practice?
Re:Biggest companies pay the least tax, shows new research
by pas on Monday April 06, 2020 @01:05PM
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Shifting is meant to be taken in a very general sense. It should include the efforts to change tax laws, to exploit loopholes in the international tax system, and so on.
And, in similar vein, determining how much value one created is again a general problem.
Economics is full of these problems, where the theorem/definition/principle is easy to state, but hard to compute. That said, it's not impossible to estimate these things and use those to guide policy.
Re:Biggest companies pay the least tax, shows new research
by listenallyall on Monday April 06, 2020 @03:18PM
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sorry, I missed the part where you pointed out the freeloading