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Authored by: artp on Saturday, January 05 2013 @ 12:01 AM EST |
Maybe that is true for gold. I am not familiar with that
situation. I do know that if you make something out of the
gold, it then becomes inventory and the owner is taxed on
its value. The owner is also taxed when the product is sold.
This is true for any manufactured product. You have
inventory, it becomes an asset, and you pay taxes on it.
If patents are an asset, I really don't understand how
corporations aren't paying taxes on them.
Not paying taxes on patents probably made sense back when
Tom Mix was out-inventing Thomas Edison. But now that
patents are mostly tied up in corporations and patents are
being used as a competitive weapon, then I would say that it
is time to pay taxes. And to start enforcing anti-trust,
Lanham Act and anti-competitive laws. But that's just me.
:-)
The taxes on inventory are one of many reasons that you see
so many remaindered books. The publishers just can't afford
to keep lots of inventory around at the margins they have.
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