I was audited, and I hired a tax attorney to help me deal with it. Even with the tax attorney I still ended up owing significantly more than what I should have owed if the tax software knew how to deal with the kind of transactions I was doing. The learning lesson was that you can't comply your way...

How do we even accurately measure such a thing if the tax burden of the seller/manufacturer makes up a portion of the price of everything we buy (ie: renters are just paying the landlord's property taxes)? It'd be like trying to calculate all of the taxes paid on the pencil from that "I, Pencil" ess...

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