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Those are mostly sales offices, not corporate HQ. Do sales offices need to physically exist locally for internet service sales? Something to ponder.
by cromwellian 9y ago
Those are mostly sales offices, not corporate HQ. Do sales offices need to physically exist locally for internet service sales? Something to ponder.
- toomuchtodo 9y agoMaybe Google will leave if they're taxed? Not the worst thing that could happen. The best thing the Romans ever did for the Britains was leave.
- cromwellian 9y agoThey left China. Did you also support Brexit?
- toomuchtodo 9y agoI support whatever the UK voters support. That's how democracy works. As a US citizen, my opinion on Brexit has no bearing, although it’s not hard to understand who voted for it and why they did.
- cromwellian 9y agoThat's a copout when I asked your opinion. You claimed to be a nationalist, I assume you voted for Trump as well. I'm trying to gauge how much I should continue debating or whether it's dogmatic. I could be convinced the EU has a right to do this, in the context of other things, but to me it seems the wrong way to go about closing corporate loopholes and it hurts businesses that aren't Google and Facebook more than it hurts the big tech companies. This "punishment" ultimately will harm more than it helps, that's my contention. I see no compelling argument otherwise.
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- vidarh 9y agoSales offices are there because they do substantial sales in the region. What exactly do you think the EU will do if they remove their physical footprint and refuse to pay tax? The answer is simple: They'll get court-approval to confiscate funds being transferred to these companies from European customers. So the real option on the table is to stop taking money from anyone in Europe, and the European market is simply too big for that to be a realistic option.
- gsnedders 9y agoThe majority of those offices have more software engineers than sales people, AFAIK.