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NY Times: Our Tax System Should Make You Furious
New York Times: Our Tax System Should Make You Furious, by Ezra Klein:
As you may know, April 15 was Tax Day here in the U.S. If you’re a regular American, you make money through wages, and it’s probably not your favorite day of the year. If you make a median income or above, you’re handing a lot of that money back to the government.
Is Making Tax Digital going to destroy the UK tax system?
Jean-Baptiste Colbert (1619–1683), the Comptroller-General of Finances under Louis XIV of France, is widely credited with saying: “The art of taxation consists in so plucking
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Internal emails show how Amazon raises prices across the Internet, lawsuit says
Ars Technica: “Newly unsealed emails reveal the sneaky ways that Amazon colludes with rivals to raise prices across the Internet on “everything from diapers to clothing to furniture,” California Attorney General Rob Bonta alleged in a press release Monday.
“Amazon and a competitor will knowingly stop price matching each other, so that one retailer can increase its price, and the other retailer can match to the new, higher price,” Bonta alleged, pointing to one of three such schemes described in Amazon emails. “Thus, both competitors start selling at a higher price, increase their profits, and consumers pay more.”
The emails surfaced in a lawsuit that the state of California filed in 2022, accusing Amazon of wielding its tremendous influence as the world’s largest retailer to pressure vendors into increasing prices on rival e-commerce websites or removing products from cheaper platforms entirely. According to The New York Times, these emails offer “a rare behind-the-scenes look at how Amazon operates its $2.66 trillion empire.”…