Italy Approves ‘Google Tax’ on Internet Companies

Re:Italy Approves ‘Google Tax’ on Internet Companies by jotm on Tuesday December 24, 2013 @01:33PM (#6960517)

How about making the country a better place to start a company instead? You know, so you can attract foreign capital and entrepreneurs, and also reduce the local brain drain.

No wonder Italians run to Germany, UK and Ireland to start their companies.

Also, good luck enforcing that law.

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Re:Italy Approves ‘Google Tax’ on Internet Companies by raverbashing on Tuesday December 24, 2013 @01:49PM (#6960578)

You'll be surprised about the hassles to open an (Internet) company in Germany.

They get the business mostly because they are cheap (and educated workforce, of course)

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Re:Italy Approves ‘Google Tax’ on Internet Companies by jotm on Tuesday December 24, 2013 @04:01PM (#6961114)

I don't know from first hand experience, but I've been told that it's relatively easy to open a UG (their version to an LLC/UK LTD) company and start working right away. Hiring and managing employees seems to be the hardest part.

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Re:Italy Approves ‘Google Tax’ on Internet Companies by raverbashing on Wednesday December 25, 2013 @05:49AM (#6962774)

Yes, the issues are mainly in hiring, labour code, and also privacy and IP issues.

Privacy is a big deal in Germany.

(And of course, doing all that in German, but in Berlin it's easy to do things in English. But not everybody speaks English)

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Re:Italy Approves ‘Google Tax’ on Internet Companies by mortyseinfeld on Tuesday December 24, 2013 @01:36PM (#6960536)

Because that takes too much strategic thinking for these spastic, greedy bureaucrats.

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