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> Additionally, there are places where corporations do pay taxes, but personal income is tax free.

Which is only possible because they either have lucrative (taxed) tourism industries, are rich in oil, or are Monaco (sorry but you're not getting in), Nauru (enjoy your stay while you can), Somalia (need I say more), or the Sahwari Republic (good luck).

So you either have places where governments are lucky to have found some other way to make money, or dysfunctional countries.

At the end of the day governments need to get currency somehow to provide the basics.




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