[tacticalturtle]

But why not just tax the owners of the corporation more to accomplish those same goals?

Why doesn’t the moral obligation rest with the owners of the company, rather than this legal construct that was created on paper?

Corporations aren’t rich people - they are machines that allocate capital and eventually return the money with profit to the owners. They can be owned by rich people, and we can tax them.

When we add taxes on corporations, we introduce compliance issues, accounting and forecasting requirements - all complications that take away money from the actual good things we can get from corporations - jobs in the community, better product development, etc.

[StochasticLi]

Because rich people can reduce their income to 0 or close to 0 via different legal ways like LLCs, funneling through other corps, certain investments(which are basically tax-money laundering schemes), being tax residents of tax havens, etc. It depends on the country what you can do. In Germany, it's basically 0.