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		juiyout on March 16, 2019 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Spotify to Apple: Time to Play Fair In your vending machine example, it is a transaction, not a tax, as you implied and I agree. However Apple taking cut of app's revenue is awfully a lot like corporate tax.

oneplane on March 16, 2019 [–]

In that case are transaction fees for credit cards also tax? Or PayPal fees for that matter? Or fees for using platforms like eBay and Aliexpress?

Dylan16807 on March 16, 2019 | [–]

Yes, I'd call any small mostly-percentage-based transaction fee that a platform imposes a "tax" or "platform tax".

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