The government needs funding to operate, efficiently or ineffectively but that's the voters problem. They tax individual and corporate entities. Companies get

The government needs funding to operate, efficiently or ineffectively but that's the voters problem. They tax individual and corporate entities. Companies gets cute and exploit loopholes with dozens of companies and locations to avoid paying the normal tax rate. So the state strikes back and imposes a 5% (sorta sales) tax that cannot be circumvented. No big deal, other than for Google, FB etc companies that choose to do business in France. I'm sure they can still keep their quintuple sandwich tax schemes