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Why is it funny that these activists focus on foreign companies selling in France but not paying taxes on those sales? Seems perfectly understandable to me why
by wavefunction 9y ago
Why is it funny that these activists focus on foreign companies selling in France but not paying taxes on those sales?
Seems perfectly understandable to me why foreign firms behaving like Apple would be the target.
- kemiller 9y agoThe French were primary architects of the EU. It's a bit rich to complain now that Ireland and Apple are taking advantage of its rules.
- kalleboo 9y agoThe EU was created as a democratic institution, it's not strange at all to protest its laws, how they're implemented, or how they're followed.
- gaius 9y agoI don't think anyone democratically voted for enshrining tax arbitrage across the bloc - this is the Irish government, a massive recipient of EU subsidies, gaming the system.
- dandermotj 9y agoAs an Irish and European person, I want you to know that your comment is misinformed and misleading. Global tax avoidance and evasion by multinationals has no relation to the formation of the EU, and the Irish government are at a gigantic economic loss (not advantage) as a result.
- valuearb 9y agoApple pays every franc of tax it owes France on its sales there, no one has ever shown otherwise.
- simonsarris 9y agoThat's not true. Tax authorities in France already fined Apple a 400 million adjustment last year for tax avoidance in FY 2011 and 2013. After 2013 Apple changed their practices to be more obfuscated. http://www.lemonde.fr/economie/article/2016/11/24/le-fisc-francais-reclamerait-400-millions-d-euros-a-apple_5037144_3234.html?xtor=RSS-3208 http://www.lemonde.fr/economie/article/2016/11/24/le-fisc-fr...
- vixen99 9y ago'évasion fiscale' has to be tax evasion not tax avoidance which implies legally minimizing a tax bill which is what every rational organization and person does.
- StephenMelon 9y agoYou mean what every rational organisation and person that are already rich enough to hire a “creative” accountant does?
- hueving 9y agoAnd what every person in the US does who takes a deduction.
- usr1106 9y agoTaxes in France have been collected in Euros since the beginning of 2002.
- geff82 9y agoBeginning 1999, if they were paid from a bank account...
- wavefunction 9y agoWhy are the sales booked through shell companies in countries outside of France then?
- walshemj 9y agoIts an illustration the one rule for French companies / industries one for the foreigners whose ceos didn't goto ENA.