Slightly off topic, but for some reason, reading this post and the comments made me think of PG's essay on startup hubs, where he mentions startupicide. These

Slightly off topic, but for some reason, reading this post and the comments made me think of PG's essay on startup hubs, where he mentions startupicide. These VAT rules seem to (inadvertently) act that way. http://paulgraham.com/hubs.html http://paulgraham.com/hubs.html