Showing posts with label Consumers and Hidden Taxes Series. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Consumers and Hidden Taxes Series. Show all posts

Monday, July 7, 2014

Consumers and Hidden Taxes: The Per-Gallon Fuel Tax, A Special Kind of Hidden Tax

You may be asking, “How is a per-gallon fuel tax a hidden tax?”

Consumers and Hidden Taxes: Those Who Spend the Most Would Pay the Most in Transparent Taxes

Transparent taxes would ideally be designed to be charged and collected at the time any consumer makes a taxable purchase.

Consumers and Hidden Taxes: Transparent Taxes can Help the Neediest Members of Society

Transparent taxes can be designed by elected law makers to help the neediest members of society.

Consumers and Hidden Taxes: Hidden Taxes Hurt the Neediest Members of Society

Under our current taxing system, every business has hidden taxes that it must pay.  Even those businesses that provide products and services to the neediest members of society.

Consumers and Hidden Taxes: Hidden Taxes Makes it Easier for Consumers to be Taken Advantage Of

Let me keep this one really simple.  By their very nature, hidden taxes are hidden from consumers.

Consumers and Hidden Taxes: How Consumers are Effected by Hidden Taxes

Simply stated, consumers are effected by hidden taxes because the cost of these hidden taxes is part of or hidden inside the prices business must charge.

Consumers and Hidden Taxes: The Difference Between Hidden Taxes and Transparent Taxes

Let’s start out simple here.  Hidden taxes are hidden from costumer view and transparent taxes are easy for the customer to see.

Consumers and Hidden Taxes: Everyone is a Consumer

Everyone is a consumer because everyone consumes.  As you continue to read I will explain why I have chosen to start out talking about consumers.  I will also explain how and why this is important to the topic of hidden verses transparent taxes. Consumers are also customers of every business they buy their consumable stuff from.  Therefore, consumers are also customers.

Consumers and Hidden Taxes: Introduction

For this part, I have included a special section that tells why I believe Hidden Taxes are hurting the poor and neediest members of society.