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I'm getting more and more frustrated by my own country's willingness to facilitate this. It just doesn't make any sense. From what I can tell it's all based on old-fashioned debunked economic theories in the same vain as "trickle-down-economy". There's a growing resistance to the Netherlands as a "Doorsluisland", and our current administration's political turmoil will hopefully provide the momentum for actual change…
We're still looking at the same people forming a new government after 10 years so the majority of Dutch people must absolutely love their achievements like the worst housing crisis since the Second World War or capitalism-presented-as-religion shit like this.
According to wikipedia it is really named after sea shells.
Any details on why 50 instead of 1? Even if it was to segregate liability for individual pieces of IP, it still seems excessive Many jurisdictions offer a single entity with segregated limited liability. Specifically “Segregated Portfolio Companies” or Series LLCs offering the same concept in other jurisdictions. Would seem out of character for the Netherlands not to have this in their catalogue of entities, since th…
Some tax havens banned IP holding companies. Why is this not written in international law and closed once and for all?
I'm getting more and more frustrated by my own country's willingness to facilitate this. It just doesn't make any sense. From what I can tell it's all based on old-fashioned debunked economic theories in the same vain as "trickle-down-economy". There's a growing resistance to the Netherlands as a "Doorsluisland", and our current administration's political turmoil will hopefully provide the momentum for actual change…
Earlier quoted context omitted.
It’s easy to hate the player instead of the game.
I hate this retort - usually players don’t get to decide the game’s rules. Tax law is full of loopholes intentionally created for the elite, politicians, and corporations.
I'm getting more and more frustrated by my own country's willingness to facilitate this. It just doesn't make any sense. From what I can tell it's all based on old-fashioned debunked economic theories in the same vain as "trickle-down-economy". There's a growing resistance to the Netherlands as a "Doorsluisland", and our current administration's political turmoil will hopefully provide the momentum for actual change…
I am really not holding my breath for this.
I am glad to see the awareness of tax avoidance (through postbusfirmas, 'double Irish with a Dutch sandwich', etc.) growing, yet until we do something about the root cause, all 'systemic solutions' proposed by the bourgeois political system will still be like proposing to cure a heart attack with a band aid (the heart attack here being mass exploitation by global capitalism [1]: exacerbated by climate change and impending civilizational collapse).
[1] Zak Cope, https://anti-imperialism.org/2012/09/18/understanding-and-ch...
Shell (the oil company) is actually named Royal Dutch Shell. For a moment I was confused by the title. According to wikipedia it is really named after sea shells.
At first I though it was kind of macabre, but then I got reminded that it's basically standard practice, exterminators frequently have bugs as their logo, bacon packages have happy pigs and so on.