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Re:Macron says France and U.S. reached digital tax deal by adventured on Tuesday August 27, 2019 @03:15AM (#20807004)
It's a ringing admission that the EU is entirely broken, they can't control their own tax havens in any manner. Since they can't manage that, they've begun implementing arbitrary tax schemes against revenue.

The extremely obvious, proper solution is to curtail the tax havens within the EU.

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Re:Macron says France and U.S. reached digital tax deal by phtrivier on Tuesday August 27, 2019 @04:08AM (#20807285)
It would be "obvious" if taxation was not one of the topics where the EU is specifically structured to not have much power, and leave it to sovereign states.

So it would be a matter of making Ireland raise it's taxation rates.

I suspect a number of companies, some of which have a fruit as a logo placated on their headquarters far across a certain ocean, would object to that.

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Re:Macron says France and U.S. reached digital tax deal by anherome21003 on Tuesday August 27, 2019 @04:46AM (#20807469)
That's untrue. The EU is a great system and Junker is a great leader. Please educate yourself
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