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Why is this so hard? If you want companies to pay a percent of their revenues, then write your tax code to tax a percentage of their revenues.

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That's a terrible idea. It punishes companies that have slim margins and raises prices for everyone. Washington State actually does something similar.

That's called VAT. (excluding revenue from b2b transactions of course)

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