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> I don't know why so many highly advanced, liberal democracies are so dependent upon VAT/GST for tax revenues.

See above discussion, when wealthy people are responsible for declaring their own income, it tends to be low.

GST is "regressive". You have to charge everybody the same 10%. You can't ask wealthy people to pay 40% like you can with income tax.

I actually have no idea what percentage of tax revenue is GST vs Personal Income Tax vs Company Tax. I'm interested now, I'll go do some research.

This is what I found https://www.abs.gov.au/articles/insights-government-finance-...




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