> stealing sales taxes
I am referring to the case, where a shop has an income from a sale, but does
not tell the authorities about it.
> "fraud" you're referring to is legal ways
No, if you act legally it cannot be fraud. One part eliminates the other.
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I got the wrong idea about how effective taxing of a shop's received gnutaler
payments will be. Regarding effectiveness of taxing of received gnutaler
payments, it equals any other well known method of payment.
In that case, gnutaler could get commonly used, if it is a lower priced
system for shops to use and providing better privacy for buyers.
To me the most important service paypal provides, is their purchase
protection. The purchase protection is included in the paypal fee.
When I check the fee, it is about 5%. I do not know how paypal is able to
provide purchase protection within this fee. Either few people get to use
purchase protection or paypal's handling of people's purchase protection
demands must be shallow. Maybe seller pays a significantly higher fee, than
buyer.
Gnutaler does not have a built in purchase protection. Regarding buying
items, I would not use gnutaler over paypal, if gnutaler provides no purchase
protection. According to gnutaler, purchase protection would have to be
provided by a system, which would not be a part of gnutaler. Can gnutaler
payments, which include purchase protection, compete with a paypal payment?
If sender and receiver regarding a gnutaler payment trust each other, they
can transfer money with same level of privacy as a cash transaction.
Stallman does not buy items from internet shops? My knowledge is, if he
cannot pay cash, he does not buy it. Gnutaler payments would not change that?
Because the shop would keep a record of Stallman's data. Address, date and
price.
