It's more than that Elwar.
ALL tax levied on corporations simply becomes a line item in COGS and is added to the price of it's product.
Consumers pay taxes, full stop.
Cherry picking.
You can not have one (consumers) without the other (corporations).
Consumers don't just magically have money, they earn it by working for (or running) corporations.
And their paycheck comes from corporations. Thus from consumers.
Consumers pay themselves and build corporations to increase their consumption.
Trying to credit taxes paid to either party is patently false and ignores the underlying reality of our society. Which is also why trying to target tax corporations vs consumers is just retarded tribalism in a new disguise created by government propaganda, the only party that takes 70-80% of everything humans create and then quite literally burns the vast majority of it.
Edit: In case you want to keep your distinction between consumers and corporations then factually corporations pay all taxes (including your income tax).
All completely true except for your last point as you're forgetting about personal wealth taxes, estate taxes, capital gains taxes (on real estate and commodities), stamp duties etc.
The last bit was not meant to be my opinion, but an extension of jojo's argument. Although in that case corporations would be implicitly responsible for real estate (etc.) taxes as well as they are the ones paying out the income required to consume anything, including stocks and real estate.
My position is that neither party is "paying taxes, full stop". This can be further elaborated as follows (in a way that does not make use of the clear fact that consumers and corporations are a symbiotic agency).
Suppose corporations were no longer required to add taxes to the price of their goods. Then one of the two follows:
i) Corporations keep prices the same, demand remains unchanged, corporate profits increase. As a result, corporations now have more cash. Some of which will go to qq CEO bonuses. Some of which will go into either researching a new product or lowering cost of existing products. Should a new product come out the consumer makes a profit proportional to his demand for the new product. Should production costs reduce then the consumer will make a profit proportional to the reduced costs in the long run.
ii) Corporations lower the price effective immediately and every consumer has a profit proportional to his rate of consumption times tax cuts.
From the perspective of corporations these cost reductions imply a direct increase of their profits be it by reduced costs or by increased demand. Thus, the argument that "consumers pay taxes" is strictly false, as corporations miss out on profits proportional to taxation. (Which I would be fine with if it was a) voluntary and b) efficient, which it [taxation and its spending] is neither).
In either case, both parties are getting screwed over by one that does not answer to anything or anyone and thus burns more money than an Arab prince wiping his ass with golden toilet paper.
