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>France does it mean I do business in France? It seems to me it should be treated the same as French person coming to my country, buying my game and going back
by Renaud 7y ago
>France does it mean I do business in France? It seems to me it should be treated the same as French person coming to my country, buying my game and going back home.
In that case you, the vendor, would need to pay taxes where you sold the game.
The problem with these large companies is that they basically pay little to no taxes _anywhere_, an optimisation that only large companies can really afford.
- bluecalm 7y agoThey pay taxes where they are located. I am opponent of corporate income tax as I think it's the worse possible way to get about taxation. France is already collecting VAT on what Google sells there. They could increase that if they want. Why should it matter to them if Google turns profits or not? The concept of "profit from sells to France" isn't really well defined either, their profit depends on cost of operating and those depends on laws and regulations of the place they actually use to make their product.
- michaelmrose 7y ago>They pay taxes where they are located. The sale can trivially be said to occur in a different jurisdiction or they can make zero profit because that money is owed to a another company that exists to facilitate them not paying taxes. The only thing that they can't move is the customer which is why this makes sense.