People generally prefer not to pay taxes, so sharing-economy firms try to avoid them. Airbnb and Uber claim they merely connect buyers and sellers for goods and services, resembling a more organized version of informal sharing. Informal arrangements like a professor subleasing a home to a grad student while abroad often go untaxed, though legality varies. Taxing informal sharing is usually impractical because it is small, decentralized, and may fall outside state oversight. Centralized corporate involvement increases scale and shifts transactions toward hotel-like operations, making taxation more feasible and raising concerns about how private activity fits state jurisdiction.
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