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It's highly dependent. Your doctor that makes $250,000 a year probably pays his fair share of $250,000 following the tax codes.
He doesn't really have the time or interest in finding loopholes in order to save the few thousands of dollars it might save him.
Most likely, he hires a qualified CPA and allows the CPA to manage his tax returns.
The people that are doing the tax dodging are the businesses that make millions a year, and they're using their business assets in order to decrease the amount of taxes they and their business pays.
They hire accountants and they do everything they can to not pay taxes, wherever the law allows for you to legally not pay them.
My opinion is that the actual solution is not to villainize the businesses for taking advantage of the tax loopholes but rather it is to villainize our politicians who created the tax loopholes as kickbacks for their friends that give them perks in real life.
There have been proposals to fix this, things like the VAT in England, and they are always loudly shouted down by the news corporations who are in the pocket and owned by the businesses that would be most negatively affected by them.
the pols own the businesses and/or get donations/kickbacks from them
If you think tax evasion is more common in business id say I'm fairly certain you are wrong and it's statistics will support that.
We simply don't know because the it's does not focus in higher earners because they can fight it, us poors can't.
I mean, I'm pretty sure that petty tax dodging happens even amongst the poorest of people, but if you look at what you would get out of going after the perpetrators, doing things like closing tax loopholes and instituting a VAT, things like that, would do more to solve the problem than auditing every single family that makes under $70,000 a year and finding out where they have made mistakes, accidental or otherwise, in their tax filings.
Instituting a corporate flat tax on any company that has revenues of over $500 million a year would put hundreds of billions of dollars into the federal economy.
With that money, corporations would actually save quite a bit of money because they wouldn't have to hire so many freaking accountants, and that much income could take care of the $1.6 trillion student loan debt crisis in half a decade.
After that was taken care of, it could all be thrown into Social Security and take care of that looming crisis. It would alleviate so many financial concerns from the country that it's actually concerning that we are not even beginning to consider doing such a thing.
Yep. Great comment.
Tax enforcement has costs. Some taxes cost more than others to institution, and tax enforcement makes zero sense for poor people where the cost of enforcement exceeds the revenue.
Which is precisely why the IRS has been so gutted, because a broke IRS has no money to audit rich people who are doing massive, illegal, and blatant tax evasion systematically.
And the media focuses on what people buy with food stamps as if they should only be able to buy beans with them.
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Also agreed.