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I'm just glad it is based on revenue instead of profits. I think corporate taxes should be the same way. I imagine the four percent had to be large enough to m

I'm just glad it is based on revenue instead of profits. I think corporate taxes should be the same way. I imagine the four percent had to be large enough to motivate compliance without scaring people away and further fueling anti-EU sentiment? I'm just speculating.

literallycancer 9y ago
What anti-EU sentiment? The only anti-EU sentiment inside the EU comes from populist politicians and the people who vote for them, who have no idea how the EU works. And what non-EU entities think is, frankly, irrelevant.
- freehunter 9y ago
  >What anti-EU sentiment? Allow me to introduce you to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brexit https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brexit
  - sgift 9y ago
    > The only anti-EU sentiment inside the EU comes from populist politicians and the people who vote for them, who have no idea how the EU works. Already noted.
    - freehunter 9y ago
      It's kind of hard to dismiss as easily as you did when it passed a popular vote and is being implemented as law. Saying "besides Brexit, what anti-EU sentiment are you talking about" is like saying "besides oxygen, what gasses do you inhale in order to survive". Sure other gasses may exist... but you're kinda missing a big one.
- orbifold 9y ago
  That must be why almost any time an EU related thing was put up for a popular vote it was rejected by the people. I can think of Maastricht, the EU „Constitution“, which was rejected and then rebranded and simply put up for vote 2 years later, the Bailouts and Austerity („elections can‘t change economic policy“, according to Dr. Schäuble), most recently Brexit. Allegedly it is always populists that ruin everything, but at least in the case of the EU constitution and the Bailouts there was legitimate criticism that was largely surpressed and ignored.
  - lhopki01 9y ago
    That posits that you can have a legitimate vote on something as complex as an EU treaty. Voting on a one off decision in any sensible way requires that people understand what they are voting about really well which is essentially impossible. Voting for a government doesn't require that level of in depth knowledge because you are voting on wether you feel the direction of the country is right and you can then change that decision in a few years time.
nwellnhof 9y ago
> I'm just glad it is based on revenue instead of profits. I think corporate taxes should be the same way. This would be a value-added tax levied at every step in the supply chain. It's a bad idea because it favors large, vertically integrated companies.

literallycancer 9y ago

What anti-EU sentiment? The only anti-EU sentiment inside the EU comes from populist politicians and the people who vote for them, who have no idea how the EU works. And what non-EU entities think is, frankly, irrelevant.

freehunter 9y ago
>What anti-EU sentiment? Allow me to introduce you to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brexit https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brexit
- sgift 9y ago
  > The only anti-EU sentiment inside the EU comes from populist politicians and the people who vote for them, who have no idea how the EU works. Already noted.
  - freehunter 9y ago
    It's kind of hard to dismiss as easily as you did when it passed a popular vote and is being implemented as law. Saying "besides Brexit, what anti-EU sentiment are you talking about" is like saying "besides oxygen, what gasses do you inhale in order to survive". Sure other gasses may exist... but you're kinda missing a big one.
orbifold 9y ago
That must be why almost any time an EU related thing was put up for a popular vote it was rejected by the people. I can think of Maastricht, the EU „Constitution“, which was rejected and then rebranded and simply put up for vote 2 years later, the Bailouts and Austerity („elections can‘t change economic policy“, according to Dr. Schäuble), most recently Brexit. Allegedly it is always populists that ruin everything, but at least in the case of the EU constitution and the Bailouts there was legitimate criticism that was largely surpressed and ignored.
- lhopki01 9y ago
  That posits that you can have a legitimate vote on something as complex as an EU treaty. Voting on a one off decision in any sensible way requires that people understand what they are voting about really well which is essentially impossible. Voting for a government doesn't require that level of in depth knowledge because you are voting on wether you feel the direction of the country is right and you can then change that decision in a few years time.

nwellnhof 9y ago

> I'm just glad it is based on revenue instead of profits. I think corporate taxes should be the same way. This would be a value-added tax levied at every step in the supply chain. It's a bad idea because it favors large, vertically integrated companies.