One thing about having somewhat of an organization-level view of things is that I see taxes differently from the way I used to.
Back when I just got paid a salary, and some percentage went to taxes: it was annoying but it was like okay, some relatively fixed cut gets taken out of this to give back to society, that’s reasonable.
But when you are trying to do business things it goes more like:
- you come up with a bunch of ideas for how to create value
- then you remember that depending on what they are exactly something like 10-50% of the value will end up being paid in taxes
- sometimes this makes them no longer worth it
- then the ones that still seem worth it you end up deciding what to do based partly on taxes, or thinking of similar things you could do that might be slightly worse on net but are better for taxes
Idk, it mostly makes people talking about stuff like companies paying their “fair share” in taxes sound nonsensical because like … what is their fair share, or anyone’s? Who knows?