Trust me, they'd like that. It's the reason there are contract workers and employees, because it's easier to force an employer to withhold taxes than get every employee to. With CBDC purely automated theft will probably become a reality. > Currency is taxed every time it's used. If you think about it, a percentage being taken out every event means the money has a limited life span. As in, why not just print money they need? Taxation allows fine-grained rewards and punishments. They tax things they want to encourage less, tax things they don't like more. You can't do that without a detailed tax system.