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Originally Posted by Chief Hedgehog
Interesting phrase. It seems our large corporations of Amazon, Best Buy, Home Depot, and the like seem to exasperate this method in terms of taxation in order to stamp down the upstart economies. An Internet tax will only benefit those companies with the resources to fund large accounting departments. The mom and pop shops that depend on Internet sales will go quietly into the dark if our legislatures are not well educated.
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Actually, we need to have more threads where this sort of thing is discussed in a way that is relevant to FIRST and society. But you're not being clear about the relevance of taxation (and in particular, Internet taxation
1) to the conversation.
1 At the risk of diverting the main topic of the thread, there's another interpretation of the scenario you outlined: assuming the government's intent is to tax businesses at an equal proportion of their revenues, the lack of effective tax collection from the smaller businesses amounts to a subsidy directed toward them that was not envisioned by the legislators. If there is value in that subsidy, then shouldn't efforts be directed at recognizing that fact, and pushing for it to be made an explicit part of policy? Or is it justifiable to allow the distortion of the legislative intent to continue, because there is a net benefit to doing so (including possibly less risk that the subsidy will be eliminated)?