Re:Iowa's handout to Apple illustrates the folly of corporat...
by paganel on Thursday August 31, 2017 @07:23AM
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> Most likely they also don't have to worry about providing school buses for most of their students
I agree with that, but a company that does business in Romania (my country) but instead pays all of its related taxes in Ireland (as Google does) is causing my country not to provide school buses and the like (that and endemic corruption, but that's another issue). I was regarding the EU as a bigger political-economic union, more like the United States, I'm pretty sure that inside both of Ireland and Netherlands both of their governments are interested in re-distributing the taxes they collect from business-activities carried out all over Europe.
Re:Iowa's handout to Apple illustrates the folly of corporat...
by paganel on Thursday August 31, 2017 @11:00AM
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Good one. The EU as a whole can barely fight against Google as an entity, and you ask (relatively) smaller countries like Romania to go at it alone. Or maybe that was sarcasm?
I agree with that, but a company that does business in Romania (my country) but instead pays all of its related taxes in Ireland (as Google does) is causing my country not to provide school buses and the like (that and endemic corruption, but that's another issue). I was regarding the EU as a bigger political-economic union, more like the United States, I'm pretty sure that inside both of Ireland and Netherlands both of their governments are interested in re-distributing the taxes they collect from business-activities carried out all over Europe.