Tax:

[billy]

If everyone actually paid that 25% of their earnings, as you say, and there were no more tax dodgers and no accountants allowed to fiddle with figures, then it might just work. I also don't mind a GST/VAT idea as long as it's set at a reasonable level (it's 10% in Australia and that's not too bad) and as long as they do away with exemptions, which never work for the people they're supposed to protect (the low income earners) and are instead exploited to buggery by the corporations because accountants know that as soon as there's a law, there's a loophole. In the long run, low income earners would benefit if corporations didn't.

I like that the heading of this thread reads Poll: Tax

i never noticed it till you pointed it out

i know small businesses fiddle their vat returns (i used to be a small business :J

i find it unfunny that corporations can make multi billions of dollars profit after tax.

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10% flat tax and no more! That's after the government eliminates the deficit and balance their budget.

that's what a lot of company pay...or less
if everyone just paid 10% a lot of things wouldn't happen... infrastructure, healthcare, unemployment etc.