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Invest your surplus then you won't have any profit to be taxed upon. Which is what Microsoft is doing. Alternatively lobby your government to replace corporat
by neilwilson 5y ago
Invest your surplus then you won't have any profit to be taxed upon.
Which is what Microsoft is doing.
Alternatively lobby your government to replace corporation tax with a company payable tax on the labour a company uses - which is actually what tax is for: to release manpower for the government use.
Then Microsoft can't avoid it by profit shifting.
- ulzeraj 5y ago> company payable tax on the labour a company uses Wouldn't that create a perverse incentive to hire less and overload the remaining employees? I say this because that's exactly what it does on my home country.
- neilwilson 5y ago"Wouldn't that create a perverse incentive to hire less and overload the remaining employees? " That rather depends whether there are more jobs than people that want them. If there isn't then you need a public job Guarantee option to swing the balance of power. We want the private sector to hire less and automate more. That's how we push forward productivity. What we want to remove from them is the "what about the jobs" argument. Then it all works.
- hhjinks 5y agoThen give workers actual rights and the ability to unionize.
- ulzeraj 5y agoA quick google search shows Irish citizens can voluntarily join and leave unions. Of course there might be more to it and I have no idea how things work there.