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Taxation will not work, we need to just take and devide their money (lemmy.ml)

submitted 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Devide

verb

Obsolete form of divide.

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[–] [email protected] 13 points 2 months ago (4 children)

The rich will just come up with clever ways to get paid that avoids paying tax.

[–] explodicle 1 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Land value taxes are immune to tax evasion. It's assessed by the state instead of declared by the taxpayer.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

People here use farm land to pay less tax, ie for inheritance.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

How would you tax a software company that has remote work and runs on someone else's servers?
The land they need could probably be a small single office room and a letter box.

Edit: sentence structure

[–] explodicle 1 points 2 months ago

I wouldn't. If they're only consuming labor and no natural resources, then just a union is sufficient.

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