In more evolved economies there are sales taxes, VATs and import duties, investment, banking fees, etc,etc plus subsidies.
In less evolved economies there are contracting and consulting fees, "personal" discounts,etc, etc..
Usually in the range of 5-20% although deductions for tax purposes might apply, as well as toher stuff within bilateral trade agreements.
However, in some semievolved there are both of them and IMF might want another 10%.
Nothing new, nothing old, but it usually makes a more efficient economy if the fees and subsidies are open, transparent and verifiable, especially if somebody tries to collect the fees two times, using some strange semilegal system.
Btw, our F-something fighters have been dropping from the high and low skies lately, so we probably need another bilateral trade agreement for some new and hopefully better ones..
That's bad, when the expensive stuff doesn't even really work, nor produce anything but more costs. |
