re: Govts love to use private entities to collect taxes, remember with this "mileage" tax

Thats my point Kraut. Its why so many countries use value added tax, they get the companies to collect the information and send in the tax. They leave sales tax to the local fellas, too burdensome and labor intensive.

Yours is a good point, SS, medicare, gas tax, tariffs, duties, etc, make the businesses collect them and send the feds the money. It also insulates them from the person paying the tax, its "those corporations", "your company" not the feds that are taking your money. And they are using corporate labor to do it (which also ends up in your cost to purchase).