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Several big-enough companies use tax loopholes to avoid paying taxes or lobby the government themselves. This is not specific to big tech though, it's a single
by jokethrowaway 6y ago
Several big-enough companies use tax loopholes to avoid paying taxes or lobby the government themselves.
This is not specific to big tech though, it's a single point of failure of having a centralised government that is easily corrupted by rich corporations.
- marcus_holmes 6y agosorry, again, I'm not following you. How does the ineffectiveness of tax regimes mean that Google and friends aren't competing like a normal business?
- thedevilslawyer 6y agoThis reads like sealioning. You really can't see why an entity A that gives 1% in taxes is at an advantage in competing with an entity that gives say 20% in taxes?
- marcus_holmes 6y agobut this behaviour (as said above) is not unique to tech. All sufficiently large, sufficiently multinational businesses effectively stop paying the full rate of tax