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What happened to a company who has no physical presence in France refuse to pay the tax on the ground that France has no jurisdiction upon them? Ordering Frenc
by ezoe 7y ago
What happened to a company who has no physical presence in France refuse to pay the tax on the ground that France has no jurisdiction upon them?
Ordering French ISPs to block the web service of that company thereby breaking the fundamental human right of freedom of speech and no censorship.
- liberte82 7y agoBlocking a website is not “breaking the fundamental human right of freedom of speech and no censorship”, at least not in France.
- Someone1234 7y agoIf they have French customers, the French government has jurisdiction. If they don't have French customers, the French government blocking them would have no impact.
- pmohun 7y agoI'm not sure the assumption that other countries give a damn about what the U.S. Constitution says is correct.
- baud147258 7y agoFrance is already censoring Internet. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_censorship_in_France https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_censorship_in_France
- WaylonKenning 7y agoI'm not sure that fundamental right is correct, at least, outside of America. There's no fundamental human rights of freedom of speech and no censorship in New Zealand for example, as enshrined by law.
- alkonaut 7y agoThere are no freedom of speech laws that would apply to a corporation rather than a human, that I know of at least.
- gamblor956 7y agoSimple. France informs their customers that they need to withhold part of or even all of their payments to said company under penalty of criminal sanction. Customers comply, non-French company receives less money. Non-French company then has 2 choices: accept defeat and pay the French tax, or cut the French customers and accept less revenue.
- joaomacp 7y agoChina does that and laughs all the way to the Gulag.
- Nasrudith 7y agoWell commerce isn't so unrestricted for one which gives tangible reach. They can easily forbid financial transactions and freeze accounts to tax delinquents.