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  • Shiggles@sh.itjust.works
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    2 days ago

    The tax being on your income and not entirely on corporations always felt like a fairly biased distinction. If companies paid the entire income tax long before it got to you, and you were simply paid ~2/3rds as much, I feel like people’s opinions would be different despite not much changing.

    • zxqwas@lemmy.world
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      2 days ago

      Tax laws are usually made to make it easy to collect, hard to dodge taxes.

      If companies pay all the tax I could create a company, invoice my current employer, pay myself a salary that is equal to the entire profit margin. There is nothing left to tax.

      You could try to patch the loophole but then you’ll break down something else.

      • elephantium@lemmy.world
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        9 hours ago

        That sounds backwards to me. If companies are paying all the taxes, why would you insert a second company into the chain? Then both companies would be paying a tax portion, and your salary would be that much less than if you just had a job.

        Or were you thinking that you could bamboozle the government out of the tax revenue by saying “Oops, no profit! Salaries cost too much!”? I don’t think that would work unless the entire structure was built with one directive in mind: “Reward Hollywood accounting”