tax options

[Stratego]

When I buy gas or other products I must pay taxes on what I purchase. Money is taken from me for the purpose of tax. But Exxon-Mobile and other companies in their infinite wisdom can decide through their accounting that the money is not going to go to taxes. Some people feel fine about it because in capitalism a company is allow to take money from you under the category "tax" and not pay tax with it. But other people are not ok with that. They feel that if money is taken for tax it should go to tax.

Should we add checkboxes to our receipts that instruct the company what to do with the money they collect from us for taxes? Ex: "Pay the damn taxes", "keep it if you find a loophole", or "give me back the portion that's not going to taxes"

[The Dude]

uh, you cannot keep excise or sales taxes through a loophole. It is illegal and if a gas station tried to do that, they'd get audited. And Exxon-Mobile does not really own gas stations. Those are mostly franchised, like McDonalds.

[Divinity11]

[Dylan]

Commas should really be inside the quotation marks.

[Hyperion]

Other than fees for services like a driver's license, title transfer, or alcohol license, flat taxes should be entirely abolished - rendering this discussion moot.

I'm pretty sure there aren't loopholes in sales taxes... are there? I would think it constitutes deceit to say on the receipt "tax" and not allocate money towards the tax.

[Medius]

No, there are no loopholes for sales tax. There was a store around here and there was some confusion as to which city it was supposed to tax under and they ended up setting too high of a sales tax. Once the issue was corrected, they had to refund the difference to anyone who brought in a receipt. You can't collect sales tax that isn't being used for sales tax.

Shipping and handling is the scam.

[J.K. Gregg]

[Dylan]

It's a policy proposal based on a misunderstanding of existing law. There's no " there" there -- i.e., nothing to follow.

[J.K. Gregg]

[eynon81]