Magic taxes

[beccaelizabeth]

If wizards were real the one thing you can guarantee would happen is
governments would figure out how to tax them.

Like, okay, maybe they have spells that can create gold from thin air
but
HMRC does not take kindly to sudden importation of large lumps of gold sans paperwork
and would not be entirely impressed with digging it up in your own backyard
especially if they could argue someone buried it on purpose, there's laws about handing that kind of thing in.

So anything wizards could do that could plausibly be considered economic activity as makes them an equivalent of money
the government would figure out a tax for that.




... aaaaand now I'm imagining being the tax office for that, both in the 'complex paperwork' sense and the 'trying to collect taxes from dragons'...

Comments

[conuly]

If wizards could create gold from thin air, all that would really happen is that the value of gold would crash.

Accio B-57 Bomber!

[executrix]

The government would hire its own team of wizards, who would conjure up the gold or other resources the government needed.

[anne_d]

A story from the viewpoint of a magical IRS agent could be fun. Although I would be waiting hopefully for the dragon to eat them.