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Ireland joins OECD International Tax agreement

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Re: Ireland joins OECD International Tax agreement

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Post by gumby »

rusk wrote: post #380
gumby wrote: post #352

Earlier quoted context omitted.

This fool has been well aware for decades that they have various deliberative and measuring staff but no ability to order anyone* around. The world needs organizations like the oecd but they hardly have “brass” like, say, the EU does, much less national governments. * ok, if your job is to track, say, land usage and you don’t do your job you have a boss who can presumably fire you but that’s about as exciting as it g…

Not as smart as you thought, eh

I have reverse Dunning-Kruger

Re: Ireland joins OECD International Tax agreement

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Post by ericmay »

Talanes wrote: post #379
ericmay wrote: post #370

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> Because you weren't having a conversation with someone trying to convince them of anything, you jumped in to police the speech of someone expressing their frustration with the state of their nation. So they were having a conversation and I’m not? I don’t really get your point. > And if you go around pissing off the people who are trying to achieve the same goals as you, they'll stop putting in any effort. …sure ok.…

>So they were having a conversation and I’m not? I don’t really get your point. My point is there is a major contextual difference between someone entering a conversation between you and a third party to say rude things about the third party and someone making general statements in a public forum and you jumping in on behalf of a theoretical third party who may not actually be offended.

Didn't realize I can't comment on someone addressing a 3rd-party (is it 3rd-party?) in a condescending way as a less optimal way of getting that 3rd-party onboard with your ideas.

If that's difficult for you I don't think there is much to discuss here because it seems pretty clear to me and I don't want to waste your time or anything out of respect.

Re: Ireland joins OECD International Tax agreement

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Post by pmoleri »

dzink wrote: post #149
pmoleri wrote: post #82

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Only if the joined countries don't implement some kind of differentiated tax on products and services commiting from outside the list.

If the earnings are attributed to the country of evasion, and it is secretive as they all always are, how does the country of residence even know or prove how much they need to tax. The pandora papers would not be so revealing if it wasn’t for the secrecy part.

The money is coming out of non-secretive countries, right? Eg. by end user credit cards o by 3rd companies buying ads or data.

Re: Ireland joins OECD International Tax agreement

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Post by ric2b »

fcanela wrote: post #284
oaiey wrote: post #197

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This is not about asking for more money. This is about companies cannot fleeing rational tax rates of normal countries into countries which specialize in "stealing" the companies from normal countries and making this their code business.

Why shouldn't people or companies be able to move where they can grow, prosper or have rules according to their values or projects? Curiously, when we talk about taxes the focus is often in the country that is harboring people instead the one that made itself unattractive.

We're not talking about companies that _actually_ move to these countries, they just pretend to, on paper.
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