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Re:Amazon and Starbucks pay less tax than sausage stall, say... by oh_sigh on Saturday September 03, 2016 @02:41PM (#12420463)
Is your argument that owners would just not take any money out of the company so as to not pay the taxes? In OPs example the company would still be taxed but just at different times
Re:Amazon and Starbucks pay less tax than sausage stall, say... by axlee on Saturday September 03, 2016 @02:56PM (#12420528)
I don't see how. Most owners are not taxable residents of the country where companies operates. If I'm personally taxable in the Bahamas, but I make all my capital profits from a company operating in a country with no corporate taxes, that country will never ever see a single tax cent from me, despite me leveraging their infrastructure and society for profit (for virtually free). I would directly profit from their roads, their transportation, their education, their Internet, their police, their laws, their justice, while never contributing to it.