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Re:France has approved a digital services tax despite threat... by 1gn1t10n on Thursday July 11, 2019 @01:51PM (#20413732)
As far as I understand VAT's role in the economy, the Value Added Tax is offset to the last link of a value-adding chain: the consumer.

This creates the incentive of further adding value to a product/service and thus creating more economic output.

Amazon may be paying other taxes, but VAT is paid by the consumer.

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Re:France has approved a digital services tax despite threat... by ApolloFortyNine on Thursday July 11, 2019 @02:16PM (#20413953)
It's a sales tax. In the EU it's fitted into the price the consumer sees. From every sale Amazon makes 20% of that is going to the government.

You could easily argue every tax on Amazon is a tax on the consumer. If you increase the cost of Amazon doing business, prices go up.

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Re:France has approved a digital services tax despite threat... by zmk_ on Thursday July 11, 2019 @03:47PM (#20415073)
Just because the seller is responsible for transferring the tax revenue to the tax office does not mean that the seller is the one paying it.
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