re: #171 thedopefishlives

Come to think of it, decreasing tax rates would increase tax revenue in only one situation that I can imagine: If you are so brutally overtaxing people that they are actively leaving or avoiding your country, and by lowering the tax rate, you are encouraging people and/or businesses to migrate to your location. If your tax rates are already competitively low, you will see no such influx from lowering them further.

There is also the notion that if people are spending their time and effort at avoiding taxes rather than just earning more money, a tax cut might inspire them to hire another engineer rather than another tax accountant.