Business pays tax on profits (revenue - expenses). Salary has smaller tax for business compared to pure profits, employees don’t pay it because it’s not profit. So businesses have incentives to keep human employees instead of keeping all the profits for themselves.
And that applies to all businesses. So if you, for example, bought a carrot for $10, tax is included, you don’t pay tax on it.
The distributor bought it for $6, spent $1, pays tax on their profit ($3),
farmer grew it, used fertilizer, seeds, labor, etc., pays tax on profit (maybe $2),
the fertilizer company again pays tax on their profit, and so on
In US you pay tax on every transaction. You get salary, you pay tax, you buy a thing, you pay tax, you eat something, again tax. This makes you more aware government is taking money, compared to the first scenario. But it also gives government ways to make complicated rules and give different tax benefits to different people. In the first scenario, government help goes to everyone whether they have a job or not. In this case you only get Tax cuts if you already make money.
The corporate tax rate starts from high amount, while individual starts from lower amount, and in many case even the top earners don’t have as high. It’s mostly because top earners are still salaried and that’s not “profit”, if you have a business you already are paying corporate tax. Many rich people employ their family to pay less tax, but you can’t do anything that requires specific qualifications.
Edit: for individual tax brackets and what is a reasonable salary, would take more research. I might do that later in the month because now I’m interested.
That’s how it works in many countries.
Business pays tax on profits (revenue - expenses). Salary has smaller tax for business compared to pure profits, employees don’t pay it because it’s not profit. So businesses have incentives to keep human employees instead of keeping all the profits for themselves.
And that applies to all businesses. So if you, for example, bought a carrot for $10, tax is included, you don’t pay tax on it.
In US you pay tax on every transaction. You get salary, you pay tax, you buy a thing, you pay tax, you eat something, again tax. This makes you more aware government is taking money, compared to the first scenario. But it also gives government ways to make complicated rules and give different tax benefits to different people. In the first scenario, government help goes to everyone whether they have a job or not. In this case you only get Tax cuts if you already make money.
This is the first time I hear that there are countries that have company profit tax more than employee tax. What countries are those?
Interesting, I thought that’d be a normal thing because it makes so much sense.
I didn’t go deeper into it, but I could see several examples in just the first 10 entries here:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_tax_rates
The corporate tax rate starts from high amount, while individual starts from lower amount, and in many case even the top earners don’t have as high. It’s mostly because top earners are still salaried and that’s not “profit”, if you have a business you already are paying corporate tax. Many rich people employ their family to pay less tax, but you can’t do anything that requires specific qualifications.
Edit: for individual tax brackets and what is a reasonable salary, would take more research. I might do that later in the month because now I’m interested.