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Re:France Plans 5% Digital Tax as Governments Chase Internet... by diarmuidc on Sunday March 03, 2019 @09:18AM (#19294519)
The double Irish was gotten rid of in 2015 https://www.investopedia.com/terms/d/double-irish-with-a-dut...
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Re:France Plans 5% Digital Tax as Governments Chase Internet... by microcolonel on Sunday March 03, 2019 @09:44AM (#19294644)
You can see the impact of that crackdown in their tax receipts and tax to GDP ratio. Government revenue from Double Irish tax arrangements was fully 5% of their GDP.

https://data.oecd.org/tax/tax-revenue.htm

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Re:France Plans 5% Digital Tax as Governments Chase Internet... by josefx on Sunday March 03, 2019 @10:15AM (#19294797)
For every company already using it "will be", in 2020. Enough time to migrate to the next trick.
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