> Thanks for sharing your point of view... This is getting fun... :D LOL

Yes. Quite a useful range of thoughts.

Note that this could burst into politics and more at a moments notice.
Please don't let it. It's much too fun and useful to die early.

Taxation:

In NZ if you buy a new company Porsche and a sole person has full use
of it in an out of company time then you pay very severe fringe
benefit tax on it. The tax is based on the initial price paid. Even
after many years the tax rate does not drop.

If A and B each have identical Porsches in similar condition and at
similar mileage and age, if A sells his to B and if B sells his to A,
and if the sale price is a fairly small fraction of new, as it usually
bwill be, the A & B now pay fringe benefittax n the price they paid
for their car, which is the lower used price. Sunstantial $ can be
saved this way.

I'm told that this does not work in practice because Porsche drivers
all think thatv their car is worth more and has been better treated
etc.

Aha - A & B buy identical  Porsches.
A leases his to B abd B leases his to A.
After N years A buys B's Porsche and drives it.
B buys A's Porsche and drives it.
All are happy except "the man".
This is probably such a good idea that 'the man' would kill it if he
noted it :-).


        Russell








>
> Where are you from?
>
> Cheers,
>
> "If you have an apple and I have an apple and we exchange apples then you
> and I will still each have one apple.
> But if you have an idea and I have an idea and we exchange these ideas, t=
hen
> each of us will have two ideas."
> (George Bernard Shaw)
>
> "The only thing necessary to the triumph of evil, is that good men do
> nothing."
> (Edmund Burke)
>
>
>
> On Thu, Jun 9, 2011 at 07:50, Lindy Mayfield <lindy.mayfield@ssf.sas.com>=
wrote:
>
> > If I have an apple and I sell it to you, then i have to pay taxes on th=
e
> > money you gave me, then you sell the apple to someone else, then you pa=
y
> > taxes, then they sell it, they pay taxes, and they sell it back to me t=
hen
> > more taxes. =A0I make make apple cider and sell that to you, then I go =
to jail
> > or get a huge fine for selling bootleg alcohol because, yes, I didn't p=
ay
> > the booze tax.
> >
> > I once read somewhere that trading the apple for a pear is not legal.
> > =A0Bartering. =A0Bypassing all taxes. I don't know if that is true or n=
ot, and
> > I'm not smart enough to know how to check.
> --

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