10-18-2018, 05:07 AM
Would you vote Yes if the tax applied to you?
Excellent question, but perhaps not as intended.
This tax increase applies to everyone, because taxation is a finite resource. Pretending that "this tax applies only to some people" is a fiction, as is the idea that "certain people should pay more because they can afford it". The rest of us will make up the difference.
Owners of "investment" property (and airbnb hosts, others) are already paying more, but that money isn't going directly to government, and some of it is untaxed (does that gardener pay GET? the housekeeper? sometimes, not always). Tax "modernization" is about control as much as it is about revenue.
Excellent question, but perhaps not as intended.
This tax increase applies to everyone, because taxation is a finite resource. Pretending that "this tax applies only to some people" is a fiction, as is the idea that "certain people should pay more because they can afford it". The rest of us will make up the difference.
Owners of "investment" property (and airbnb hosts, others) are already paying more, but that money isn't going directly to government, and some of it is untaxed (does that gardener pay GET? the housekeeper? sometimes, not always). Tax "modernization" is about control as much as it is about revenue.