I see no contradiction in taxing companies in a manner generally consistent with that of a person and treating employees of the company as a type of laborer paid by this entity.
Families. Don't. Exist. apparently either. The only fiction is that we anthropomorphize the group like it's singular. That doesn't mean that the group isn't a thing unto itself.
I would hope you don't think of yourself as just a mound of cells.
For publicly traded companies, the owners don't make executive decisions,the execs do and the owners range from random people on cash app to multi-billionaires. Perhaps instead of a tax, they should grant the government equity and pay dividends?
It is not just an abstraction, without the concept of companies a lot of financial concepts are simply impossible to express.
We made these things up because they are a convenient and useful abstraction, but let's not forget that they are a legal fiction. So guess what you call a company that pays taxes? Fiction! Companies can't pay taxes because they don't exist, only people can pay taxes. So when you tax a company, it ultimately comes from the pocket either of an owner, an employee, a supplier or a customer.
If we were honest about this and not just looking for a boogeyman that we can pretend to stick the bill to, then we'd switch to a conversation about capital gains, income and consumption taxes.