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Re:France has approved a digital services tax despite threat... by ElFitz on Thursday July 11, 2019 @02:00PM (#20413794)
> This holds for all businesses, not just large tech companies. So why is the tax focused on the latter?

Because they are those who could and had the resources (legal and financial teams) to avoid said taxes, until now, and they happily did so (ie billing through Luxembourg or Irish post boxes). Not that I'd condemn it. Countries and laws were just to slow in catching up.

Most other businesses couldn't (and still can't) go around playing with loopholes because they don't have the means to and most of their goods are, well... physical.

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Re:France has approved a digital services tax despite threat... by inlined on Thursday July 11, 2019 @07:09PM (#20416727)
> Because they are those who could and had the resources (legal and financial teams) to avoid sales taxes.

Many countries have laws that effectively say that you must follow the spirit of the law. This seems analogous. See GAAR in https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tax_avoidance

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