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RDL Policy on Taxes
Types of Taxes:
- Income taxes -- based on profits
- Corporate taxes -- based on profits
- Sales taxes -- based on purchases and sales
- Value added taxes -- based on purchases or sales
- Stamp taxes -- based on transactions
- Property taxes -- based on owning, living in or using property
- Freedom from taxes -- based on reducing CO2, or similar pollutants
RDL Policy -- based on dealing only with activities which promote freedom from all taxes, including but not limited to the types listed above, in connection with RDL research, development, building, property or assets, import or export of goods or services and activities involving RDL's Associates:
- Subsidiaries,
- Successors,
- Joint venture partners,
- Customers,
- Suppliers,
- Advisers,
- Investors,
- Employees, or Officers, and
- Residents who live in, or
- Businesses, or industrial plants, gardens, farms, lots, parking garages, mini-airports, located in, or
- RDL's licensed or approved Zero-CO2 Utopia or Mini-Utopia-Villages, or
- Zero-CO2, DaviHas Series Homes, or
- Owners, designers, builders, operators, controllers, protectors or users of
- Pilotless Mother Hawks,
- Pilot/air-traffic-controller [PATC], ground-based training and control centers
- Zero-CO2 Pilotless Gavin Class autogyros or
- Piloted Master Chief Super Hawk autogyros.
Details of most of these activities are described on other pages of this site, listed at the left, including RDL's Political Manifesto.
There are already many tax incentives for various activities, including exemption for (UK) stamp tax on buying residential houses costing less than £500,000.00 and were certified to be free of producing CO2 pollution. The complications attached are such that no one, to date, has been able to benefit, or decide whether or not to buy, thus there has been no incentive to build, buy or sell such a house, thus neither ZeroCO2 houses, nor reduction of CO2 pollution has resulted.
RDL advocates three simple rules:
- Zero tax (ie no tax) imposed on RDL and its associates, listed above, for 22 years, with the tax exemption decreased by 5% per year after the end of 2030 until to Zero% after the end of 2050.
- Activities which are only fractionally related to production of CO2, ie produce CO2 when used, or consumed, or in the course of production, will be classified as Zero-CO2 if only one half, or less, connected with production of CO2, or Not-Zero-CO2 if more than one half connected, for the years 2008 through 2030. After the end of 2030, each following year the Zero-CO2 exemption, will be reduced by 5% more each year until reduced to Non-Zero-CO2 after the end of 2050. To prevent attempts to deliberately define activities so that they will be classified as Zero tax, RDL will restructure the definition of any activity into separate activities, 1) matters related to production of CO2, thus taxable and 2) not related to production of CO2, thus Zero taxable.
- The degree of relationship of an activity to production of CO2 shall be judged by RDL in connection with all activities carried on by RDL or its associates. In the event of dispute, an unbiased Body of Advisers will consider the evidence and arguments of RDL and the complainant and return a binding verdict within six months of filing the complaint. The Board of Advisers could also classify the other pollutants, in addition to CO2, contributing to global warming and issue written guidance to RDL on whether to classify an activity as Zero-CO2 or Not-Zero-CO2.
Obviously, RDL's primary goal is to reduce pollution of the atmosphere as rapidly as possible. Following Albert Einstein's suggestion: "Make the good easy and the bad difficult" seems feasible. We feel that taxes are even gentler, but perhaps more effective: "Make the good cheaper, and keep the bad as expensive as it always has been, or even more so if necessary to take up the slack in incentive, or satisfy the need for money". Handling import-export policy, in a similar way, to encourage other country's leaders to influence citizen's to cooperate in reducing the World's Global Warming problem, by mutual agreement, could succeed, without meaning to offend.
Finding the electable politicians, in the key countries of interest to us; interesting them in our policies and manifesto, and arranging for mutual support, is essential to our success. Once this stage has been reached, locating and recruiting Joint Venture Partners is the next step, followed by launching design and building of cities and commence producing products. As soon as possible, after that, comes recruiting residents and businesses of our cities and villages, and users of our products. That will automatically begin to produce CO2 reductions. This success will lead to more participants, voters, supporters, suppliers, Joint Venture Partners and participating countries governed by mutually supportive politicians leading to a World saved from early deaths, injuries and and misery. Oh! Should we mention that some changes in life style will add to individual freedom, self respect, enjoyment of life, longevity, health and less disease, hunger, flood damage, envy and competition with people and other countries.
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