When you tax gross sales there's less wiggle room of course, and VAT and sales tax does target the gross sale in a way that is difficult to avoid. But most nations tax profit and this is where the problems arise because naturally there's sales and then there are expenses and those expenses include the 'Cost of Goods Sold' - makes sense of course and for ordinary retailers, this isn't even something they can fudge (because they're buying from third parties), but companies like Starbucks can actually buy things from their subsidiaries located in other countries and charge what? Well, when they're smart and clever, the subsidiary in the lower tax market will charge its cousin more than it otherwise could in the high tax country. Of course that makes the profit in the high tax country less and the profit in the lower tax country more.

 

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