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> Personally, I like this proposal It is meant to be a popular proposal that will win lots of likes for the EU, but it's stupid on the face of it and it will e
by zerostar07 9y ago
> Personally, I like this proposal
It is meant to be a popular proposal that will win lots of likes for the EU, but it's stupid on the face of it and it will end up comically abused. E.g. companies could create 2 resellers across europe, split the revenue and avoid the tax. It's not less brazen than their current dodging schemes and it just shows the impossibility of taxation under global free trade. It's also very passive aggressive, if they wanted a tariff they should impose a tarriff.
- clishem 9y ago> The commission’s planned revenue tax, which is expected to be proposed on March 21, would only represent a targeted, short-term solution. It seems to be targeted at big tech giants specifically. Good luck splitting Alphabet, Facebook and Apple. > the impossibility of taxation under global free trade They wish.
- jfasi 9y ago> companies could create 2 resellers across europe, split the revenue and avoid the tax That's exactly the point of taxing revenue: under a profit-based taxation scheme you'd end up with a net profit of zero. Revenue taxation schemes would double-tax this setup.
- zerostar07 9y agobut if the revenue is below the limit, they wont be taxed, and i guess they can play that cat and mouse game forever.
- anonymouz 9y agoThey would be just begging for the limit to be removed then though. Like the current 'tax optimization' schemes have given rise to this proposal.
- zerostar07 9y agoso how is this an improvement then
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