• iii@mander.xyz
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    2 days ago

    Isn’t it possible with a VAT-like system, where a collecting agency returns the collected money to the central bank?

    Imagine being a business where you have to manually input, document and pay the daily changing VAT to the government.

    This actually doesn’t seem too bad. Most points of sale are digital.

    Imagine having to pay 1.00023 dollars

    Instead of changing it daily, only change it monthly/quarterly/… when the accumulated change is large enough to make a one dollar change on a 100dollar purchase? Isn’t the decision to change the interest fork currently only made after gathering macro-economic indicators anyways?

    I understand that insantly changing the transaction cost has an even faster reaction. But monthly might be good enough?