What is the "Ex'tax" concept that taxes resources, not people but high-quality services overflowing and enabling an environmentally friendly society?

There is no "correct answer" for taxation method not only from a fair perspective but also because we need to consider various factors such as wealth distribution well, economy activated and sustainable development realized, according to social situation It is evolving seeking a better method. Meanwhile, as a taxation method to make people's lives richer by improving the quality of service more ecological considering resources exhaustion etc.Ex'tax (X-Tax)The attention that is attracting attention is gaining attention.

Ex'tax :: The Big Idea
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You can easily understand what kind of tax system Ex'tax is by seeing the following movie.

Ex'tax in 90 sec on Vimeo


Modern society is a "material society (consuming society)" that overflows with things.


Products to overflow are produced from resources.


As a result, material society has created a problem of resource depletion.


On the other handPopulation explosionAs the word suggests, since the 20th century, the world population has increased sharply.


Substance society is a society full of people, there is also one aspect as a "unemployment society" that overflows with people who can not find jobs and unemployment.


There is actually a correlation between the problem of exhaustion of resources and the problem full of unemployed people. This is because the level of taxation on labor force is too high, compared to the relatively little taxation on resource consumption behavior. In other words, "resources go up cheaply, and labor becomes expensive".


Because resources are consumed and exhausted due to low cost of resource consumption ......


Because most of the taxation on labor is borne by companies that hire workers, we hate high labor costs and reduce people.


"It is not funny?" I thought that the Dutch entrepreneurEckart Wintzen. He tried to solve the structural defects of this material society / consumption society by taxation method, and the tax system called "Ex'tax" was invented.


The fundamental problem of consumption society is that resources are cheap and people are high. In other words, it is said that tax is applied to people (and services) too much, and on the other hand it is not taxed enough for resource consumption.


So Ex'tax reverses this composition and thinks that "you should tax heavily on consumption of resources and conversely reduce taxes on people and services".


Under the Ex'tax system, resource prices are inevitably increased because they are heavily taxed when exchanging resources. Therefore the price of things goes up.


Doing so leads to the movement of treating things as much as possible and trying to recycle and reuse.


Then, there is a movement called Reduce (to reduce consumption) that suppresses resource consumption itself. That is, with Ex'tax nature3RIt is promoted, and it becomes an ecological society.


Furthermore, even when things are broken, it will be easier for behavior to repair and use for a long time.


Of course, it is people to repair, so employment will be born here.


Also, since taxation on services performed by people is low and the cost of services is lowered, services can be received cheaply.


With Ex'tax, which is not taxing on labor, we are realizing a society that is cheap, high in quality of service and environmentally friendly.


"High taxation on workers minimizes the number of workers" "From the structure that resources are consumed infinitely if the taxation on (relative) resources is low", the taxable object is changed from "person" to " Although it is an Ex'tax which shifts to a large extent to "resources", the barriers to realization seems to be high as it is necessary to carry out transformation "taxation from people to resources" on a global scale in order to realize this tax system .

In addition, Ex'tax uniforms the tax rateFlat taxAs a tax system to improveDavid BradfordIt is totally different thing from Mr. X Tax.