Re:Communications Minister touts the opportunities of a Goog...
by 908B64B197 on Monday February 01, 2021 @02:14PM
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> Europeans are fighting for similar reasons [...] by companies who have failed to pay their taxes again and again.
I get that it's trendy right now for elected non-technical bureaucrats to whine against tech giants. But if they are really avoiding taxes why not simply... charge them for that? Hint: They can't because all the taxation schemes used by these companies are legal. EU bureaucrats could simply write a tax code that makes them illegal but they won't!
All the whining also distracts peoples from asking themselves why European policies failed to grow a healthy growing tech ecosystem like in the US.
I get that it's trendy right now for elected non-technical bureaucrats to whine against tech giants. But if they are really avoiding taxes why not simply... charge them for that? Hint: They can't because all the taxation schemes used by these companies are legal. EU bureaucrats could simply write a tax code that makes them illegal but they won't!
All the whining also distracts peoples from asking themselves why European policies failed to grow a healthy growing tech ecosystem like in the US.