Genre: Non-Fiction
Description:
“Why should you continue to pay taxes, when the rich and the powerful
do not? This is clearly unjust and blatant discrimination, that leads to the
masses having to pay extra taxes to subsidise the rich who don’t pay their fair
share.
Tax havens are wonderful places that allow you to avoid paying taxes
on your income or wealth. Not having to pay taxes is a wonderful feeling! Why
should this remain the sole privilege of the rich and the powerful?
Uber Tax Haven MNC presents an unconventional, yet practical and
implementable, plan to help address this issue once and for all.”
Author:
Just for Fin is (obviously) a pen name for someone. He, she, or they
have thus far written two short volumes about tax havens available at your
favorite online book store.
Appraisal:
In the first (very short) volume of this series the author gave an
explanation of what tax havens are and an introduction into how they work. At
least a minimal understanding of tax havens could be of use in fully
understanding this second volume, but probably anyone who knows enough to be
attracted to this book would know enough to get the gist of it.
This book proposes a way to shelter basically everyone’s income in the
same way that the rich, powerful elite in the world do. In his or her bio the
author says their writing is humorous and I’ve got to admit, reading this did
make me laugh. Some of those laughs were probably in places where the author
intended humor. Some of it (like that it would work if we all did what he or
she proposes) maybe is serious, maybe not. I laughed at that, regardless of
intent.
However, I did find this volume much more worthwhile than the first book
because it admits that regardless of where a person falls on the political spectrum
that some of the things government currently provides need to be provided and
that the government requires revenue to do it. It then proceeds to outline
where that money could come from instead of the income tax that would be going
away in the fantasy this book is painting.
While I think the author probably realized that a consumption tax (one
of the proposed revenue generators) should not be on food, with the exception
of some food taxes explicitly applied for specific reasons discussed in the
book, this was never spelled out. I think it should have been. In the US most
people when thinking of a consumption tax immediately relate this to state
sales taxes where in some states this is not applied to food and in other
states, where it is, an increase impacts the poor much more than the rich. But
other than that nitpick, the ideas and concepts he introduced in his proposals
for how governments might maintain their revenue, but in a way the author thinks
are better was, if not always convincing, generally thought provoking.
FYI:
Uses UK spelling conventions.
Format/Typo
Issues:
No significant issues.
Rating: ****
Four Stars
Reviewed
by: BigAl
Approximate
word count: 9-10,000 words
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