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by tgsovlerkhgsel 1732 days ago
The beauty is, you don't even have to tax the operator directly, as long as the train is traveling between countries participating in the same scheme. The fuel (or power) the train uses has already been taxed, as has the production of the train itself.
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Most of the hairy parts of taxation come from interaction with foreign systems.