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Re:WhatsApp is back online in Brazil by blowski on Wednesday May 04, 2016 @09:51AM (#11628309)
Paying an appropriate amount of tax in the countries in which it operates might be another. All that democracy stuff costs money and has to be paid for somehow.
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Re:WhatsApp is back online in Brazil by AnthonyMouse on Wednesday May 04, 2016 @08:20PM (#11633051)
It isn't a company's job to pay more taxes than it owes, it's a country's job to set sensible taxes.

Stop trying to tax "corporate income" for multinational entities that can trivially shift profits into other countries, and instead tax the thing they actually do in your country.

And if they don't actually do anything in your country, what makes them owe you anything?

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Re:WhatsApp is back online in Brazil by blowski on Thursday May 05, 2016 @12:56AM (#11634076)
But Facebook can't have it both ways. They can't pay almost no tax and then call themselves defenders of democracy.
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