If I read you correctly you're saying that a tax imposed on the consumers in a country benefits the country as a whole and thus aslo the companies operating in that country, which make it unfair to foreign companies? Is that really what you're arguing?
We started this conversation with you seemingly not understanding how VAT messes with free trade, and it sounds to me like you're in a different place now. Feel free to keep arguing over semantics all day long, I'll leave it at that.
My place hasn’t changed at all. Everything I’ve said is internally consistent. You are welcome to view any form of taxation as an impediment to “free trade” but that’s not how competition works. Feel free to continue believing that taxation is inherently protectionist, I’ll leave it at that.
If I read you correctly you're saying that a tax imposed on the consumers in a country benefits the country as a whole and thus aslo the companies operating in that country, which make it unfair to foreign companies? Is that really what you're arguing?
I’m saying the VAT is not protectionist.
We started this conversation with you seemingly not understanding how VAT messes with free trade, and it sounds to me like you're in a different place now. Feel free to keep arguing over semantics all day long, I'll leave it at that.
My place hasn’t changed at all. Everything I’ve said is internally consistent. You are welcome to view any form of taxation as an impediment to “free trade” but that’s not how competition works. Feel free to continue believing that taxation is inherently protectionist, I’ll leave it at that.
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