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Originally Posted by Enoch Root
Exactly. People are suggesting that tax avoidance is a huge issue. But a sales tax does not address that at all. All it does is make everything more expensive for the middle class.
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The underground economy is huge. I talked with a CRA guy once who said it’s so big that the government doesn’t even want to publicly say how big it is, out of fear it will legitimize it and make the problem worse. A substantial proportion of the money that changes hands in the construction and trades industries is undeclared and untaxed.