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I just quickly had to check that again: Google is making about $30 on average for every person living in France. Even taxing Google alone 5-8% would earn France

I just quickly had to check that again: Google is making about $30 on average for every person living in France. Even taxing Google alone 5-8% would earn France a significant amount of money, not to speak of all the other large companies making tons of dollars in online business. Fascinating.

newbie12 14y ago
Check again. Google's revenue in France is $2 billion, but their overall gross profit margin is little more than half that...so roughly they are making $15 per French citizen.
- nraynaud 14y ago
  check again, their declared revenue in France is disputed by the tax service. So you can't compute with published figures.
  - tomjen3 14y ago
    Of course you can. The tax service lies.
outside1234 14y ago
This is an import duty exactly like charging 5-8% on wine and cosmetic sales in the US. Also, I'd be surprised to learn that Google is actually collecting money in France as opposed to Ireland based on the way I've seen almost every other software company structured. So I'd suspect that the revenues in France are essentially 0.