“No business actually pays ANY ‘taxes’.
“They just are another cost of doing business like raw materials, utilities and wages.
“They ALL get rolled into what the final purchaser pays for the product.”
That depends upon tax incidence and elasticity of demand. Sometimes tax must be absorbed by the producer in the form of lower income. Sometimes it means lower wages for the employees. Sometimes it gets passed on to consumers.
In each of these in stances; it's a human, somewhere; that end's up paying for the taxes the gummint places on a business.
1. The Owner of the Business
2. The Workers in the Business
3. The Consumer of the Businesses product.