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An admirable project, and it's great to see a tech billionaire trying to do something like this. A major barrier can be seen in the infamous "lump of coal in pa
by sfc32 5y ago
An admirable project, and it's great to see a tech billionaire trying to do something like this. A major barrier can be seen in the infamous "lump of coal in parliament" video. Scott Morrison is Australia's current Prime Minister. https://www.theguardian.com/global/video/2017/feb/09/scott-morrison-brings-a-chunk-of-coal-into-parliament-video https://www.theguardian.com/global/video/2017/feb/09/scott-m...
- suprjami 5y agoIt would be more admirable if Atlassian weren't a $5B company with a history of paying zero tax. I consider this at best a decent attempt at making amends (assuming tax dollars go towards the greater good, which they largely do in Australia), and at worst just virtue signalling for something which was never going to happen in the first place.
- sfc32 5y ago> It would be more admirable if Atlassian weren't a $5B company with a history of paying zero tax. I couldn't agree more. I've always paid my taxes, not that I had a choice.
- codewithcheese 5y ago$75B according to market cap
- throwaway_4ever 5y agoTaxing revenue is silly. Atlassian has made no annual profit, losing money every year by investing gross profit into the Australian economy. This is Australias chance to have power in the global tech environment and you’d be foolish to gimp them by penalizing their investments into hiring employees. Do you want a dollar now or ten dollars in a decade when you’re taxing their big tech profits? Or you could just tax people buying a used car for 9k, fixing it up, selling for 10k, at 10% of revenue…