It finally clicked for me that some people seem to believe that there is a difference between a company’s legal minimum tax obligation and a company’s moral minimum tax obligation. I’d be fascinated to see someone take a stab at writing a framework for calculating the latter.https://twitter.com/JoeBiden/status/1139188173131591685 …
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Replying to @zackkanter
Seems like a false apple/orange. Isn't the implicit proposal to change laws so the legal minimum and the moral minimum are brought to parity?
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Replying to @Lawlerpalooza
1) the legal minimum and moral minimum are always at parity. 2) the way to get Amazon to pay substantially more taxes is to eliminate carryforwarded losses, which I don’t think any reasonable person on either side is proposing.
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Replying to @zackkanter @Lawlerpalooza
I don’t disagree with your overall thinking, but do disagree that “legal” and “moral” are always at parity. Many things are both legal and immoral - the legality does not set the mortality.
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Replying to @jgehtland @Lawlerpalooza
Agreed. Not everything that is immoral is illegal, and not everything that is illegal is immoral. What I’m saying is that when it comes to taxes, I struggle to clearly define “moral” in a way other than “legal.”
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Replying to @zackkanter @jgehtland
Isn’t this almost the definition of a tax “loophole”? I.e., something that - whether by mistake or trickery during legislation - is technically legal but violates the “spirit” (intended morality) of the law.
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There’s a tweet for that...https://twitter.com/zackkanter/status/1139675973421375488?s=21 …
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