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Comment by dnautics

I'm kind of the opposite. We should have 0% personal income tax and a minimum corporate income tax.

A personal income tax incentivises the state to surveil the economic activity of individuals and play games with nudging people to do X or Y, and puts the burden of tax filing and the consequences of not reporting (which some people just can't do correctly).

Contrariwise, a corporate income tax can be thought of as a "user fee" for the privilege of the corporate veil and limited liability. If you don't want your mom and pop shop to pay corporate income tax, simple: don't incorporate, and be responsible for your personally responsible for your employees' well being. And thus it becomes a driver of small business growth and a progressive taxation (the beneficiaries of bigcorp profits are going to be disproportionately wealthy). If you can't afford an accountant to keep track of what taxes you owe, don't incorporate. Etc.

parent dnautics 5 years ago

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