France has 348 taxes, the UK has 90, and Germany only 60. We map all three tax systems and explore what drives tax complexity - and what the UK can learn.
That is evidently untrue and I doubt they want to tell us that French companies need 300+ tax advisors.
Yes, more taxes can mean more complexity. So do more laws, more employees, more customers or more product lines.
This is a completely pointless truism than does not prove anything.
They just claim that it’s bad without anything substantial to back it up.
The statement that you can raise the same tax revenue with fewer taxes shows that they don’t understand why different taxes exist in the first place.
Also it conflates taxes, fees, social security contributions, all of which may follow different legal and budgetary rules.
That is evidently untrue and I doubt they want to tell us that French companies need 300+ tax advisors. Yes, more taxes can mean more complexity. So do more laws, more employees, more customers or more product lines.
This is a completely pointless truism than does not prove anything.
They just claim that it’s bad without anything substantial to back it up.
The statement that you can raise the same tax revenue with fewer taxes shows that they don’t understand why different taxes exist in the first place.
Also it conflates taxes, fees, social security contributions, all of which may follow different legal and budgetary rules.