Do you know there are several Mexican-family owned restaurants and food stores where I live and they don't charge sales tax on their sales? I was even in line once with a local policeman buying a breakfast burrito and nobody seems to notice or care that they don't charge a tax on it even though it (or anything else they sell) is a prepared food item that should be taxed.
Do you know there are several Mexican-family owned restaurants and food stores where I live and they don't charge sales tax on their sales?
What's their dollar volume as compared to WalMart?
Over 80% of the dollar volume in retail sales is done by less than 20% of businesses. The big don't put their business at risk by not collecting a tax from a customer. That is especially important under the NRST, those business' income and payroll taxes are repealed achieving subsantial cost reductions not only in the tax not being paid through those mechanisms but the overhead costs of complying with and fighting the IRS go away as well.
The net result is total paid by the customer (NRST + shelfprice) can remain essentially the same as it is today and the business ends up actually being more profitable.
Nope, that ma & pop store probabaly evades the income/payroll taxes as well under the current system. Same ole Same ole under the NRST. No increase in dollar amount evaded.