German court rules Facebook use of personal data illegal

Re:German court rules Facebook use of personal data illegal by blibble on Monday February 12, 2018 @05:54PM (#16363145)

just replying again as I remembered another point

previously when I had a new idea that I might be able to turn into a business I could form a limited liability company for about £10, try the idea out with essentially no paperwork at all

then if the idea panned out I could worry about the huge-pain-in-the-ass-that-is-VAT later

now with this regulation it's a problem once I've made my first sale to a non-domestic EU customer, and my agility goes through the floor

EU countries have gone from being fantastic places to start a digital services micro-company to being at best mediocre ones, all to try to stop Amazon avoiding VAT

utter madness: small companies started as side projects turn into the big ones, but apparently we no longer want that

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Re:German court rules Facebook use of personal data illegal by dvfjsdhgfv on Tuesday February 13, 2018 @06:03AM (#16366221)

> EU countries have gone from being fantastic places to start a digital services micro-company to being at best mediocre ones, all to try to stop Amazon avoiding VAT

Well, so how do we deal with Amazon avoiding VAT and still being fair to all players on the market, big and small?

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