Quote from: RobertJasiek on April 09, 2023, 06:39:28Hersteller wie Apple oder XMG bauen darauf, bei Aufpreisen Fantasiedifferenzen aufzuschlagen, etwa Dell 16 -> 64GB für EUR 450 oder 1TB -> 2TB für €280 oder XMG 4060 -> 4080 für €1050 oder 4060 -> 4090 für €1687 Aufpreis.
This is exactly what I have been writing about for a long time, manufacturers and trade make money on complete fools (although the question always arises - where do the fools get extra money for overpayment, i.e. IRrational behavior?) By overpricing components 2-5 times. Which you demonstrated with your next relevant example.
In fact, VAT is a brazen requisition of those in power. And more often than not, he, as the most collected tax, goes to the feds.
In fact, VAT (a veiled sales tax) was invented to collect taxes from those who refuse to pay them in the white, i.e. tries to avoid direct taxes on income in the form of personal income tax and forced social / insurance payments to various federal and directly related funds.
It turns out an absurd situation with VAT and sales tax. These are taxes on consumption, but the question immediately arises - on what basis are these types of taxes applied to those who officially pay personal income tax and all other taxes on income? After all, his real goal, veiled for fools, is to take taxes at least in this way from those who evade taxes on income (and most often this is just a rich stratum capable of hiring professional lawyers and accountants, offshore specialists, etc.) - by imposing such a consumption tax. But this tax should not be levied on people who pay white taxes in full on their income, tk. a tax is obtained on the already cleared (on hand) amount from income taxes.
VAT and sales tax, in fact, cannot operate simultaneously with personal income tax and other fees. This is obviously illegal legislation, contrary to common sense, but the majority of the stupid population of all countries where income taxes and consumption taxes are combined simply do not understand this.
It can act simultaneously or income tax or consumption tax in the singular, but for all without exception.
The abomination of the modern ruling stratum and the state as a whole is obvious to anyone who tries to think about it at least a little...
The ruling stratum, politicians and officials, who are not able to compete with the smartest lawyers, economists and accountants, thus evade their direct responsibility for the conscientious collection of taxes on income from everyone without exception, in fact making the introduction of VAT an admission of their incompetence, if possible, to track income and tax rich stratum as well as the "middle class", which in general does not have the opportunity to get away taxes on income (therefore, in almost all countries it is the main cash cow in favor of the poor and the rich, who successfully evade the established taxation standards in a bunch of ways and specially provided loopholes for them in the laws of all countries without exception).
Or the powerful layer (which is even more criminal) - deliberately collects sales tax (as well as VAT) from those who have already paid taxes in full and are not required to pay consumption tax. It turns out an illegal second requisition from the previously cleared amounts of income of a citizen leading a conscientious, civil, lifestyle..
And what if we remember all sorts of cunning excises and trade duties, customs limits? You do not have to pay VAT if you buy goods abroad (which is absurd - on the contrary, it should be collected from foreign citizens in the first place, because they did not pay taxes to the local treasury!), but you will be severely limited in the amount not an additional taxable purchase, in fact the same VAT, but a little more cunningly built by the authorities with the connivance of a stupid crowd...