Start Making Sense

Why do we’ve the corporate taxes? The “why” question, of course, is intended to be normative, not historical or a question of politics economy. Before I turn to the relevant question asked, however, a couple of preliminary observations. First, I myself certainly have a feet in the artwork for art’s sake camp – I believe that interesting theoretical work that clarifies our understanding either of the world, or even just of ideas for their own sake, is great. Let me tease out another subtext to the question also. OK, let’s start with the fact that people have money tax.

Obviously you can ask why at that stage as well, but here there is certainly a big literature and people pretty much know what it’s about. For distributional reasons, or rather predicated on trading off distributional and efficiency concerns, there’s a wide-spread consensus for having at least a progressive consumption tax.

All you’re doing when you make it an income tax is also taxing keeping, a.k.a. There are quarrels on both edges of this, but in the abstract the two instruments are potentially not all that far off each other. You have money tax Once, why can you tax “corporate” income? But similarly, thinking about tax it?

Let’s treat it from another path. Suppose the question were: If the tax reach income that is paid into escrow? That is not a hard question. If you’re taxing income, and also have reasons for seeking it to be extensive, why wouldn’t you tax it just because it was paid into escrow?

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How is corporate and business income different from other income? Both earned by people, albeit in the organization case via possession in a legal entity that is taxed individually from the owners. First, we don’t know who the fundamental people are. Now, this isn’t quite the same as the question of corporate and business tax occurrence.

If you think the occurrence of the corporate tax is shifted from shareholders to, say, employees, the same may hold for business income that is earned by individuals directly, rather than through corporate and business entities. Given, however, that the corporate income tax is levied at the entity level, we don’t even know who the owners are. For instance, to what extent, in a given case, are they U.S. And suppose that, at the shareholder level, you have tax-exempt entities, with unfamiliar individuals (who aren’t the “owners” in an easy way) standing in it.

A reasonable starting point might be to believe that, for each of the groups, we would want to (if we’re able to) tax income earned inside a corporate and business entity the same manner (whatever that could be) as that earned outdoors. Second, we don’t know which kind of income it is. For instance, to what degree is it labor income?