Why does US seem to have such a convoluted tax code?
This one says that the US have 70k code.
Most of which are loopholes for lobbyists I bet.
Most make sense.
I am a tourist that go to US for vacation for a year. My company earns $100k in profit. It pays all in a dividend to me. I then give all as allowances to my girlfriend/wife/mistress. I am still a citizen of my own country that also charge income taxes with their rules.
In the "simplified" code, I can end up paying taxes 3-5 times.
On land tax, it doesn't matter. So it seems that land taxes don't have all this complexity problem like income taxes.
Will things be much simpler? A government can say that typical land cost this much in this area. Morever, there are people willing to pay this much taxes if they can use that land.
So if I let A to stay in the land I will collect less tax than if I let B to stay in the land. They both cost the same amount of money from the army and infrastructure. Of course I would demand from A, the same amount of taxes I demand from B.
In fact, that's how feudal landlord tax I guess.
So why not land taxes? More importantly, will it be cheaper?
Note: Some people say that land taxes are easier to avoid. For example, a person can just live in another country. Well. That is also a good way to avoid income taxes. Also, rich people want to live in some big mansion.