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Sales tax creates more unnecessary pain than value added tax

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Re: Sales tax creates more unnecessary pain than value added tax

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In France when you are a company you don't pay VAT on stuff you buy from other companies, so the main point of the article doesn't work. Because I guess if we had sales tax, companies wouldn't pay it either

Edit: My point is that it will not make a company economically more efficient than several companies

Re: Sales tax creates more unnecessary pain than value added tax

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post #3

In France when you are a company you don't pay VAT on stuff you buy from other companies, so the main point of the article doesn't work. Because I guess if we had sales tax, companies wouldn't pay it either Edit: My point is that it will not make a company economically more efficient than several companies

> Because I guess if we had sales tax > companies wouldn't pay it either

Then it would more accurately be called a VAT, than a sales tax.

Re: Sales tax creates more unnecessary pain than value added tax

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post #3

In France when you are a company you don't pay VAT on stuff you buy from other companies, so the main point of the article doesn't work. Because I guess if we had sales tax, companies wouldn't pay it either Edit: My point is that it will not make a company economically more efficient than several companies

Saying that companies don't pay VAT is not entirely accurate. Technically companies pay VAT but get it rebated when they need to send the government the VAT that they have collected.
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