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Originally Posted by BoLevi
You are sending a barrel of oil through a pipeline and across the border into the US. Where do you (the feds) collect the export levy and from whom?
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It’s shocking you don’t know how exports work after speaking with such confidence and apparently making up a story about “paper transactions” lol. So, It’ll be more fun to walk you to the answer.
Generally, export taxes/tariffs are paid by the exporter before the product can cross the border. Once it’s paid, it can cross. This fee, whatever it is, is baked into the invoice to the importer.
But you’re right, there’s no border officer checking to see how many beers the barrel of oil is bringing across as it travels through the pipeline. But… you’re an expert of the carbon tax, right? Well, if a carbon tax applies to every gigajoules of energy I buy, and it comes into my house every day even though I only pay once a month, how do you suppose that works?