@oshepherd Well, "fair" is probably the wrong term, since who knows what that means. "Productive" might be better.
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Replying to @cmuratori
@oshepherd It is not in any way productive to have a high-cost-of-compliance tax scheme. It diverts jobs from production to accounting.1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes -
Replying to @cmuratori
@oshepherd It means that your goods and services get worse or more expensive, period, all because the government was stupid.1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes -
Replying to @cmuratori
@oshepherd This is why payment-processor VAT is so much better. It means that the local laws are handled by the people who know them.1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes -
Replying to @cmuratori
@oshepherd And it is not an impossible problem to solve the invoice coding, you just have to first accept that it is worth doing.1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes -
Replying to @cmuratori
@cmuratori But making that work requires *abolishing the local laws*. Removing the ability to set taxes would be a major loss of sovereignty1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes -
Replying to @erincandescent
@oshepherd Not at all. Imagine a website called "20questionseuvat.whatever". Business just go there and classify their stuff.1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes -
Replying to @cmuratori
@oshepherd The thing asks 20 questions and it navigates down to some 32-bit code, right. And it's just all the tax laws amalgamated.1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes -
Replying to @cmuratori
@oshepherd I think every business would be fine doing that once, say, every year. Then local laws can all get uploaded there.2 replies 0 retweets 1 like -
Replying to @cmuratori
@cmuratori And what line of questioning, returning to my example, determines that Jaffa Cakes are sometimes cake sometimes biscuit?2 replies 0 retweets 0 likes
@oshepherd 20 questions is 2^20 items. Make it 32 for fun and you'd handle 4 billion categories.
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