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Tax avoidance via jurisdictional arbitrage is certainly not the essence of EU.

• buboard 7y ago
  Cross border trade is. And digital businesses , finance, shipping , and many more will increasingly become remote. Right now EU artificially inflates local presence with regulations (by e g not having a bank union). Like it or not though, free trade zone means that taxes wont be paid uniformly. I know that tax avoidance is seen as unfair but it was enabled by the Union.
  • effie 7y ago
    Cross border trade does not require allowing for the tax avoidance. And the E.U. is changing, just because something was enabled long time ago does not mean it will remain the same. Free trade zone can have many forms.
    • buboard 7y ago
      And yet they couldn't find a way to have both without imposing this tax.