Netflix Europe offices raided in tax fraud probe

Re:Netflix Europe offices raided in tax fraud probe by pjerem on Tuesday November 05, 2024 @04:02PM (#42055135)

In absolute, I agree with you. But personally if I had to chose between tax evasion (permitted by those schemes) and having less multinational companies because it’d be more difficult… well, my country was doing pretty okay before multinationals and is not doing okay since every taxes are evaded.

Well Netflix is nice and all but I prefer social security and teachers in school.

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Re:Netflix Europe offices raided in tax fraud probe by AnthonyMouse on Tuesday November 05, 2024 @04:14PM (#42055219)

Federal revenue as a percent of GDP:

https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/FYFRGDA188S

Basically flat since the end of WWII, significantly lower before the war. At the height of the New Deal, less than half of what it is now. And that's in the face of significant growth in real GDP per capita. Probably not a dissimilar story in most other Western countries.

The problem isn't in the amount of taxes being collected, it's in how the money is being spent.

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