All corporate costs get passed on to the consumer. If they gotta pay a million bucks for something you can bet prices are going up. Unless their market situation dictates they absolutely have to (ie upping their prices even a little kills sales) companies don’t eat costs, whether it’s taxes or wages or utilities they all go into figuring out how much to charge.
“All corporate costs get passed on to the consumer.”
Not really. They’re constrained by what their competition chooses to try to pass along. They try to pass along what they can, but they can’t pass it all off. If they could, why would they care about taxes or try to carve out exceptions in the tax code? After all, they would just pass it on to the consumer.