"F. Bertolazzi" wrote:

flipper:

It's even easier than that. Church--- no filing.

Yes, but I can't see why they should be treated differently than other
companies. The whole "no profit" sector smells like scam.

Or, conversely, I can't see why people and companies that produce should be
taxed at all. Taxes should be paid by consumers. The more you consume, the
more you use public infrastructure (directly or indirectly).


Who do you thionk pays corporate taxes other than their customers?


In Europe we have VAT, that's like sales tax, but it's much more difficult
to evade. On food, newspapers & books it's around 2%, on practically
everything else it's about 20%. Alcohol, cigarettes & gas have huge
additional levies.

That allows to let poor people pay just 2% of taxes.


No tax on food in supermarkets, but there is sales tax at restaurants
in the US.


But our governments get only 1/3 of their revenues from the above, 1/3 from
income taxes and 1/3 from pension funds. Pension that I'll never see, since
my money has already been spent (twice, in Italy).

Since retirement is calculated more or less like income taxes, the result
is that production is taxed twice as much as consumption.

That's tragically ridiculous.


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off scientist!!!