Free Tax Project

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[When we officially launch the project, we will change the http://theunitedpersons.org/project/free-tax-project link in the description field to http://p2pfoundation.net/Free_Tax_Project .]

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Core Ideology: Values

Based on Built to Last.

I. Free from monopolies

Free tax

  • means libre tax and, at the same time, optionally gratis tax (cf. Wikipedia: Gratis versus Libre, The Free Software Definition and The Open Source Definition),
    • but does not mean that it should be gratis and should exclude the opportunity to express the responsibility towards the political units their citizens feel allegiance to.
  • means free choice of the destination of the tax of intangible goods, depending on political allegiance of producers of these goods (by the option of setting the default tax destinations) and/or of customers of these goods (by the option changing the default destinations),
    • but does not mean that you can not pay tax of intangible goods to a territorial state (e.g. if a producer and/or a consumer feel political allegiance primarily to it).
  • means free from monopolization (e.g. by the states), i.e. the tax market of intangibles should be contestable, i.e. free for competition
    • and does not mean either that this tax market should be freely monopolizable (e.g. by the states),
    • or that some hypothetical (e.g. a super-state) authority should enforce tax competition, i.e that this tax market should be competitive,
  • means independent tax (e.g. free from dependence of states),
    • but does not mean that taxation of intangibles should not practice public cooperation e.g. with states in order to maintain free choice.

II. Respect for partitions

Respect for individuals

Respect for states

Respect for properties

III. Common law

The Project is defined as the Greatest Common Divisor among

as a reference group, within the scope of the Project, i.e. taxation.

Constraint: the predetermination of the desirable scope of the state is certainly not included in the Greatest Common Divisor. Contestable tax market of of intangibles should shape the environment for the states and they will proactively/reactively adapt themselves to this environment.

IV. [...]

[This needs to be cleared by the Members of the Project.]

Core Ideology: Purpose =

Free Tax Project - Free Your Tax from States [???]

[E.g. like "Nokia - Connecting People"; this needs to be cleared by the Members of the Project.]

Envisioned Future: Big Hairy Audacious Goal

Based on Built to Last.

The Free Tax Project is a project with a beginning and an end. What is the end = SMART BHAGoal of the Project?

[This needs to be cleared by the Members of the Project.]

Envisioned Future: Vivid descriptions

Based on Built to Last.

How will the world look like after the BHAG has been reached?

[This needs to be cleared by the Members of the Project.]

We need a Project logo which expresses our Core Ideology: could you help us? (Join!)

Subprojects

The subprojects should be defined as the necessary and together sufficient open system modules for the project. [Are the Subprojects below necessary and together sufficient for our Project?]

Sustainable Creativity

An ethical basis for free tax in the form of a firm conception of sustainable creativity in case of intangibles.

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Independent Infrastructure

Infrastructure for secure communication and political participation independent of states.

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Independent Money and Tax

The option to exchange bits and pay our tax on bits to the political units to which we owe our political allegiance (i.e., independent of, but not excluding, the states), cf. http://theunitedpersons.org/blog/states-let-them-prey-on-atoms-but-not-on-bits

  • default rate > 0
  • option out (i.e., e-cash)

The extreme 0% tax rate still does not mean gratis transaction: the costs of transaction and tax rates are not the same concepts.

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Pacification

  • Defending the option of producers and consumers of intangibles to avoid double taxation by states.
    • default: no double taxation
    • option out (i.e., pay taxes on bits to states as well)
  • Ensuring that our tax is free from cartels, cf. Barnett,2006:

1. Focus prosecutors on “hard core” cartel activity

2. Treat cartels as serious crimes, and cartel members as criminals

3. Provide amnesty and amnesty plus

4. Vigorously prosecute obstruction of justice

5. Charge cartels in conjunction with other offenses

6. Provide transparency

7. Publicize enforcement efforts

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Participation

The infrastructure to spend our taxes by means of our participation (through a process which is not necessarily democratic, but necessarily based on a constitution).

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Customary Law

Laws revealed by our customs of our communities on the internet.

Customary law does not mean that we should avoid prescriptive laws or constitutions: it just means that we should review and appreciate the experiences we acquired through our cooperation of different kinds on the internet.

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Citizen Experience

To offer average users a kind of user experience as Apple provides, and to advanced users as open as Linux provides and as formal as machine readable ontologies; for all above.

Reference

Public Transparency

Deliver push and pull information to the public on

  • the strategy and tactics of the tax cartel of the states and our evaluation,
  • the project.

Reference

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