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Re:European Union plans to tax tech giants on local revenue by mtkd on Monday March 05, 2018 @03:41PM (#16524181)
So how would you fix the national treasury impact of profitless megacorps moving in to a country and taking out layers of smaller businesses (some of whom make profit and pay tax on it)?

Are you really going to threaten those countries with taking your non-tax paying elsewhere?

Edit: Amazon paid just £15m in tax on European revenues of £19.5bn https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2017/aug/10/amazon-uk...

Re:European Union plans to tax tech giants on local revenue by merb on Monday March 05, 2018 @05:55PM (#16525325)
Well Amazon actually has low profits so they barly pay taxes, because they use all their money in expanding their business. This is actually something which you can do as a german in germany anyways.

And since ~2016 or earlier? amazon pays taxes in every country they operate. In germany they even changed the invoice address to be german ~2016-2017. a long time they used luxemburg as their invoice address which was really clever, until it broke out a scandal. http://europa.eu/rapid/press-release_IP-17-3701_en.htm It contains a good picture, which explained it. And now all sales are recorded in the operating countries. and amazon now needs to provide certain tax related information on a per country basis.