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Re:European Union plans to tax tech giants on local revenue by JumpCrisscross on Monday March 05, 2018 @04:01PM (#16524344)
> How far can the EU push before these companies decide it is not worth having actual businesses there?

Why would they leave? Just raise prices in the EU to compensate.

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Re:European Union plans to tax tech giants on local revenue by julbaxter on Monday March 05, 2018 @04:04PM (#16524377)
Raising the price also means being less competitive.
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Re:European Union plans to tax tech giants on local revenue by mattmcknight on Monday March 05, 2018 @04:07PM (#16524404)
tax wouldn't apply to competitors?
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Re:European Union plans to tax tech giants on local revenue by slededit on Monday March 05, 2018 @04:15PM (#16524472)
Conceivably the local competitors would be paying more in taxes and this should be calculated to be as close to neutral as possible for them.
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