No, employee compensation is an expense to the company, the more they pay the employees, the lower the eventual profit, which is the basis upon which income tax is determined.
Still, this left over money will be available to spend in other areas like R&D, marketing, etc. The government does not have a right to 30% of it or whatever the corporate tax rate is.
No, you are repeating your mistake. Companies are free to spend on marketing or R&D, which are common expenses, thereby reducing their profit and by extension, reducing the amount upon which they are taxed.
>> The government does not have a right to 30%
Apparently it does, since governments all over the globe have been levying taxes on corporations for decades. Unless you think the Cayman Islands, Bahrain, and Isle of Man should be the model for industrial countries.
The Gulf countries don't charge corporate taxes as far as I'm aware, not just Bahrain. Also, the company might want to spend the money on R&D and marketing the following year, so having a spend it or lose it model is backward.
And, just because the rest of the world's governments are stealing does not make it ok.
