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Complying with the tax laws is now a leftist agenda? Calling out Apple getting an illegal tax deal in Ireland (below normal tax rate, against EU law) is leftist

by JanSt 7y ago

Complying with the tax laws is now a leftist agenda? Calling out Apple getting an illegal tax deal in Ireland (below normal tax rate, against EU law) is leftist agenda? I think complying with rules is a very conservative thing to do.

js4ever 7y ago
Complying with tax laws is exactly what apple and other big companies are doing right now. Leftist and Communist countries invent new taxes everyday (france have a 75% revenue tax, this is the closest thing to communism in the world) Only reason to support this stupid move by the french president is leftist agenda. Hopefully president trump have defeated this stupid move with retaliation taxes on france if they insist on this path... And they backed off :)
- JanSt 7y ago
  > france have a 75% revenue tax, this is the closest thing to communism in the world Hacker News is not a place to spread fake news. France has a corporate tax rate of (at most) 33.3% on PROFIT. Average is more like 28% on profit.
  - js4ever 7y ago
    Fake news??? What are you talking about? Please take few minutes to search on google before saying it's fake news... My message clearly said there is a 75% revenue tax in france and it's true. Why are you talking about corporate tax when i explicitly mentioned the 75% revenue tax? https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taxation_in_France https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taxation_in_France
    - JanSt 7y ago
      Sorry, you have no idea what you are talking about. 1) Here are the corporate taxes https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corporation_tax_in_France https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corporation_tax_in_France 2) The 75% is not a "revenue" tax. You don't even know what revenue is. >The tax introduced by Francois Hollande as the 75% tax is in fact an additional employer contribution of 50% which when existing social security charges are added reaches 75%. The proposed tax was subsequently modified after being rejected by the Council of State[7] and was implemented in 2014 in its current form and will be discontinued as of January 2015 The discontinued 75% "tax" also included pension and health insurance. If this not existing tax is not what you were referring to, what is this "revenue tax" you are talking about. Here is an overview of european taxes https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tax_rates_in_Europe https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tax_rates_in_Europe
      - js4ever 7y ago
        To be honest I left france several years ago and I was not aware about that tax was transformed to "only" 50% of tax instead of 75%. Anyways that doesn't change the fact that france is still a fiscal hell and that most rich peoples left the country already after this stupid tax was voted. The same year I left there was also thousands of other people's who left france. I heard the peak was in 2015 with more than 10k millionaires who left france that year alone. Stupid taxes and fiscal instability are 2 majors reasons why france is slowly dying.

by JanSt 7y ago

js4ever 7y ago

Complying with tax laws is exactly what apple and other big companies are doing right now. Leftist and Communist countries invent new taxes everyday (france have a 75% revenue tax, this is the closest thing to communism in the world) Only reason to support this stupid move by the french president is leftist agenda. Hopefully president trump have defeated this stupid move with retaliation taxes on france if they insist on this path... And they backed off :)

JanSt 7y ago
> france have a 75% revenue tax, this is the closest thing to communism in the world Hacker News is not a place to spread fake news. France has a corporate tax rate of (at most) 33.3% on PROFIT. Average is more like 28% on profit.
- js4ever 7y ago
  Fake news??? What are you talking about? Please take few minutes to search on google before saying it's fake news... My message clearly said there is a 75% revenue tax in france and it's true. Why are you talking about corporate tax when i explicitly mentioned the 75% revenue tax? https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taxation_in_France https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taxation_in_France
  - JanSt 7y ago
    Sorry, you have no idea what you are talking about. 1) Here are the corporate taxes https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corporation_tax_in_France https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corporation_tax_in_France 2) The 75% is not a "revenue" tax. You don't even know what revenue is. >The tax introduced by Francois Hollande as the 75% tax is in fact an additional employer contribution of 50% which when existing social security charges are added reaches 75%. The proposed tax was subsequently modified after being rejected by the Council of State[7] and was implemented in 2014 in its current form and will be discontinued as of January 2015 The discontinued 75% "tax" also included pension and health insurance. If this not existing tax is not what you were referring to, what is this "revenue tax" you are talking about. Here is an overview of european taxes https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tax_rates_in_Europe https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tax_rates_in_Europe
    - js4ever 7y ago
      To be honest I left france several years ago and I was not aware about that tax was transformed to "only" 50% of tax instead of 75%. Anyways that doesn't change the fact that france is still a fiscal hell and that most rich peoples left the country already after this stupid tax was voted. The same year I left there was also thousands of other people's who left france. I heard the peak was in 2015 with more than 10k millionaires who left france that year alone. Stupid taxes and fiscal instability are 2 majors reasons why france is slowly dying.