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Re:Australia to make Facebook, Google pay for news by jokethrowaway on Friday July 31, 2020 @03:59AM (#24006661)
Several big-enough companies use tax loopholes to avoid paying taxes or lobby the government themselves.

This is not specific to big tech though, it's a single point of failure of having a centralised government that is easily corrupted by rich corporations.

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Re:Australia to make Facebook, Google pay for news by marcus_holmes on Friday July 31, 2020 @04:33AM (#24006829)
sorry, again, I'm not following you. How does the ineffectiveness of tax regimes mean that Google and friends aren't competing like a normal business?
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Re:Australia to make Facebook, Google pay for news by thedevilslawyer on Friday July 31, 2020 @06:50AM (#24007409)
This reads like sealioning. You really can't see why an entity A that gives 1% in taxes is at an advantage in competing with an entity that gives say 20% in taxes?
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Re:Australia to make Facebook, Google pay for news by marcus_holmes on Friday July 31, 2020 @09:03AM (#24008187)
but this behaviour (as said above) is not unique to tech. All sufficiently large, sufficiently multinational businesses effectively stop paying the full rate of tax
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