Do you see in the future a flat tax to replace the GST and personal income tax?
460050
Nope, too many people with too much influence don't want it and lobby hard against it.  Why would they want to pay a flat tax if they currently pay little or no tax to begin with?
751909
One of the best alternatives to all types of tax is the expenditure tax. Do away with council, income and corporate taxes and have a flat 30% expenditure tax. True, prices will increase in the short term but so will the income and hence we will have a balance. Also, this will mean that immigrants & assylum seekers will also pay the full tax and hence will not run away with using the services without pay anything.
612066
Like the other person said, who would give if it was just voluntary? I agree more money needs to be spent on programs to help the homeless,needy,etc. Perhaps we should rethink the flat tax scenario.\n  But, is it fair to ask a person earning $35,000 a year or less to pay the same amount as a person who earns $1 mil??Perhaps we should redo the tax code..I mean..erase everything and start over.
925742
Income yes except for those that make poverty wages; wealth no, that would be like taxing someones income twice.
610175
It is your lucky Day because this plan is already a bill in the House (HR 25) and Senate (S 25) it is called the Fair Tax!!\n\nIt was developed by the finance department at MIT.\n\nAll products and services are taxed as the same rate but this tax is included in the posted price of the product BY LAW. (the receipt will show how much tax was paid)\n\nThis will eliminate the wholes in the tax system for interest groups and give people more freedom on how to use their money.\n\nFood is taxed but every household (may be dependent on income) gets a Pre-Bait check for all the cost of the tax on the basics of living for that month.  \n\nThere are no taxes on used products so no taxes at your garage sale or on your used house.\n\nNo tax on savings, investments, income, businesses, etc.\n\nThings are only taxed once at the retail level.\n\nI am personally excited about this and I think everyone should contact their Senator and Representative and tell them to support the Fair Tax!!
659699
I would give a big no to this question. As long as our politicians dont create equal oppourtinities for the wide group of population, a tax payer will be forced to share the tax with a big number of non contributing citizens of this country. This means, what he is going to get is only going to be 1 by 100th of what he pays.
177156
Yes. All tips should be 100% tax free. Individual people paying other individual people for private services have already paid taxes on that money a dozen times over.
747349
No.  But they may attempt  to eliminate the reduced taxes on dividends.  I doubt that though.
376129
Any way you slice it the government needs to pay for the services that people demand. I would support any modification of the tax code that would get the public at large to buy into the system. That means that the obvious corruption in the way federal money is spent and the way in which contracts are awarded has to be dealt with.  The budget process in Congress is hopelessly broken and needs to be reformed.  In short, a sales tax would be simpler and indeed would be a better system but it needs to be accompanied by other reforms.
658846
Nah. I think it could be great. War would be rare, people would eat well, education would change to fit individual need, and taxes could be lowered because spending would be different.
893009
Boy am i with you look at the question i asked a couple of hours ago!!!!\n\nI'm sick to the back teeth of handing all our hard earned wages over to them.\n\nWe will be taxed the "AIR" we breathe before long, and i don't think that is to far retched!!!\n\n\nI am with you all the way, good luck to you and yours.\n\nAnd this is to the people "Who have obviously have a few quid in their pocket" \nIt's not that we don't expect to pay tax, stop being so jumped up!!!\n\nWe are just fed up of getting screwed over????
29163
I don't like high taxes, but if they come with good government service and infrastructure I don't mind. We want our money to be something we can enjoy. Pay less taxes and save more money but have bad government and infrastructure, doesn't sound enjoyable.
671212
I do not like the current system that penalizes those who work harder and earn more.\n\nI am a proponent of the Flat Tax, where everyone who earns more than $20,000.00 per year gets taxed at exactly the same percentage rate. No loopholes. Keep the tax system simple. Reduce the size of the IRS, because a more simple tax system means there is not as much of a need for a huge government agency/beauracracy to oversee it.
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If you are an employee, salary sacrifice your pay. Take some of your salary as a laptop, extra superannuation etc.\n\nIf you run a business, incorporate it, and make sure you have a Personal Services Business, in accordance with the Alienation of Personal Services Income legislation.\n\nCompanies only pay a tax rate of 30%, but if you provide personal services, you'll end up having that company income attributed to your personal tax.\n\nYou can also minimise personal tax by hiring a really expensive accountant. They come up with the most creative ideas.
594288
First, I disagree with your postcard statement.  It is going to cost the government a lot of money to collect tax given the current way things are managed and the available resources.  Quite frankly, things are not 100% technically advanced which leads to reduced efficiencies.  However, e-filing continues to set records within the IRS helping to alleviate some of the cost.   Redesign to put forms in "postcard" form would cost far too much.\n\nAs far as flat tax, it depends.  If people could get used to it in simplistic form, then yes it might work.  The sad part is that Congress and others would then try to submit "exceptions to the rule" like, we shouldn't tax poor people, we shouldn't tax real estate, we shouldn't tax businesses who don't make money.  Very soon, we would be right back to the system which is in place.  What a lot of people don't realize is that they might pay as much or more with a flat tax system.\n\nThe current system is overly complex and could use a good simplification.
866808
It would probably be something like this. In conclusion i have no choice but to raise taxes.
89250
Read Neal Boortz's book "The Fair Tax".  \nThe fair tax gets rid of all federal income and payroll taxes and replaces it with a 23% consumption tax.  \n\nPeople get a prebate each month to cover taxes on the basic necessitys of life. \n\nYou get your whole check (gross) not just net.\n\nCorporate taxes presently account for 23% of an items price now.  That would disappear so you would be paying about the same for everything.\n\nAnd with no corporate taxes America would become the worlds biggest tax shelter.  Industries would be running over each other to set up shop in the US.\n\nCheck it out.\n\nMy 2 cents