[msnimje]

All business owners "pay" taxes, be they personal income or corporate income taxes. I say "pay," because these taxes are recouped in the purchases of goods or services by consumers

I understand that. My question was do people pay taxes on services? They do not here in Georgia

[pigdog]

In most state sales tax systems (which I presume you're talking about), the states do not tax services (or many other things for that matter) and are replete with execptions and exemptions as well.

The FairTax taxes both goods and services purchased by the final consumer (not by a business for resale or to help produce things) at retail. Also, used (previously taxed) things are not taxed. The plan is to tax things once and only once - and only taxable things.