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the EU is not changing any rule, they are enforcing one of the original ones: a state must not make special cases for companies. The principle is fundamental b
by riffraff 9y ago
the EU is not changing any rule, they are enforcing one of the original ones: a state must not make special cases for companies.
The principle is fundamental because otherwise everybody would play favourites with their own "national champions".
The case against Luxembourg is not that taxes there are low, it's that they are low _for amazon_.
What Luxembourg says is not "this is a new rule" but "we have not played favourites".
- weddpros 9y agoLet's talk about Total (french oil company) which didn't pay ANY taxes in France until recently. BTW, it was the most prosperous company in France at that time. Only when the media investigated did they start to pay some corporate taxes. There was way less hatred against Total than against any american companies as we see today. Do you know that France distributes so many subsidies to french companies (110B€), that's way more than the total corporate taxes it collects (36B€). And Total is still the clear winner in the tax cut race in France ;-)