‘Operation Tulip’ Takes Prosecutors Offline for Google Tax Raid

Post by c-slice » Wed, Jun 01, 2016, 10:32 PM UTC

toomuchtodo wrote: post #4

c-slice wrote: post #3

The last paragraph in the article is a real kicker: they're going to have to parse millions of documents to build their case. That's going to take an enormous amount of time and staffing costs. It'll be interesting to see this play out in the courts or if a settlement is reached before trial.

> That's going to take an enormous amount of time and staffing costs. Is it? Can't they scan all of those docs in, OCR them (or process the electronic docs if they're already in that format), and use e-discovery? I hear so often on HN that legal firms no longer need junior associates or paralegals for that work, as the software can do the heavy lifting.

Post by chris_wot » Wed, Jun 01, 2016, 10:35 PM UTC

epoxyhockey wrote: post #6

we worked with computers, but pretty much only with word processing The article title sounds like a sensational excuse for an otherwise technologically unsavvy group of tax agency workers.

Post by Scoundreller » Wed, Jun 01, 2016, 10:46 PM UTC

ironsides wrote: post #15

shitlordism wrote: post #14

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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Post by yummyfajitas » Wed, Jun 01, 2016, 11:00 PM UTC

ljf wrote: post #24

clamprecht wrote: post #19

> "It's pretty much a fight between David and Goliath", [the prosecutor] said. Really? France, a sovereign G8 nation, calling Google Goliath? How are they measuring size? Google's market capitalization is $500 billion, is this more valuable than the country of France?

Do you think the French Tax office has 500 billion in resources? Or 5? Likely to have a relatively tiny budget and teams compared to even just the legal teams at Google.

Post by icebraining » Wed, Jun 01, 2016, 11:04 PM UTC

chris_wot wrote: post #20

The fact that French authorities feel they are weaker than Google, well that's a deep concern to me.

  - There is to be a departmental reorganisation. A real reshuffle. We may get extra
    responsibilities.
  - Do we want them?
  - We want all responsibilities, Minister, if they mean extra staff and bigger
    budgets. It's the breadth of our responsibilities that makes us important,
    makes YOU important, Minister. When you see vast buildings, huge staff
    and massive budgets, what do you conclude?
  - Bureaucracy?
  - No, Minister, you conclude that at the summit there are men of great stature
    and dignity who hold the world in their hands and tread the earth like princes.
  - Yes, I see.
  - So each new responsibility must be seized eagerly and each old one guarded
    jealously. Entirely in your interests, of course, Minister.