So the head of a church (priest/preacher/pastor, whomever calls them self father) calls in asking why he’s getting charged taxes on apps in his app store. Says he bought two new iPhone 17 pro max’s tax free (one for his wife one for him) and his computers should be tax free because “they are for the church”. Your apps aren’t for the church. Your phone is not for the church, God didn’t demand you answer a phone or download an app… get back to your damn church and pay your sales taxes person who points his phone at a Donald Trump tie and thinks you are the person who isn’t the mooch
To keep out specifics, think calling App Store or Play Store and complaining you paid tax when you bought an in app purchase while playing roblox.
Also I agree, taxation on a digital product is bloody stupid. And I probably was not allowed to say, but told him that sounds like the argument like “right to repair” when he asked why you would be charged if you down “own” the product. Oops. Either way, it’s what they asked
Why is it stupid on dogital products. The point of VAT is that you pay a tax whenever you buy anything: if you buy more thing you pay more to the common purse. Or I’m just too European and got used to paying tax on literally everything.
Some people apparently think faeries give them clean water and fix roads. Maybe that guy just likes driving a bus, and being asked to help pay for the society they live in and benefit from is beneath them.
Capital gains taxes and property taxes pay for those things. Regressive taxes like sales tax are a drop in the bucket and exist to punish the poor.