You can profit from taxation!

Strategies to benefit businesses, individuals, and society

Don’t Just Pay Taxes advocates a complete shift in our thinking of tax as a liability or burden. Divakar Vijayasarathy uses historical perspective and contemporary examples to illuminate the purposes of taxation, focusing on how governments use tax policy to push people to behave in certain ways. This approach allows us to envision tax as an opportunity to profit. Entrepreneurs who grasp this concept get tax credits and other forbearance from regulators by aligning their business with a government’s needs. It works most prominently for major corporations engaged in international operations. But anywhere in the world, small companies, individuals, and society can benefit if they overcome their distrust of the tax collector and look for the possibilities of alignment. Vijayasarathy envisions a future, better world in which governments use the tax system to engage their people to contribute voluntarily to fund the public projects for which they have a passion. Until that future becomes a reality, this book shows how we can create our own opportunities to profit simply by asking the right questions of our tax advisors and the tax collectors. This novel concept is so thought provoking that it makes a book about taxation an exciting must-read.