Tax amnesties just encourage future tax evasion, since everyone will always be waiting for another amnesty. They create a moral hazard by causing disrespect for the rule of law.
That's only the case if everything else remains the same. A tax amnesty coupled with significantly harsher penalties for future evasion would probably work pretty well.
or the government finds a way to finance itself in a way that doesn't exclude itself from economic activity
just a thought, worked 100 years ago from before it started financing itself with a passive income tax
it is entirely possible, also consider that no form of better tax compliance would solve its budget problems. The idea of paying 'fair share' is disingenuous when it is funding embezzlement within the military and defense sector waaaaay before it funds an an oft cited road or school
the biggest irony here is that I'm not a tax protester. maybe closer to a historian.
Of of course. The government should run itself as a business. Just shut down other businesses that are profitable, and take over their market. That worked in the past right.
And the lower taxes should encourage business growth, even despite the fact that the government could come in and take over at anytime.
I don't know why this is downvoted, it's correct. They used to have tax holidays regularly in Ancient Rome, and it caused people to learn to wait for the next tax holiday.