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These are not fines and have absolutely nothing to do with France ability or inability to grow an "ecosystem". This is entirely about large foreign companies u
by brmgb 6y ago
These are not fines and have absolutely nothing to do with France ability or inability to grow an "ecosystem".
This is entirely about large foreign companies using clever schemes to offload their sale taxes to semi-parasitic members of the EU.
A new way of calculating taxes is a lot less messy than bombing Irland and Luxembourg.
- 908B64B197 6y agoThey are writing special rules to specifically rent-seek a list of companies. It's a short term political gain. What they should do instead is if they don't like the existing legal framework that enables companies to pay taxes in an other European jurisdiction, simply re-write that. Write bad laws, get bad results.