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Revenue tax? We had that before the fall of the wall - not again please. The VAT system works well and should be used more.
Purchase tax would work like reverse VAT. Companies could be awarded tax credits for their sales (not 100% though) and pay tax on their purchases. This would be harder to evade and additionally incentivise companies to do more with less which might be good for environmental transition.
Netflix Europe offices raided in tax fraud probe
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Why should it be illegal? Isn't it akin to "right to remain silent"? Why the need to present any information to police unless it is asked by court. Assuming that they didn't delete the data, just moved it to somewhere safe where it couldn't directly be taken away. We had a raid in one of my previous company due to copyright violation due to a user uploaded content. Authorities came in to take in all the codebase, rep…
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Given Wirecard I wouldn’t assume the EU equally prosecutes or tracks crimes for EU and non-EU companies.
Isn't the Wirecard case still pending with execs in jail waiting for trial?
Until that moment it did the exact opposite including opening criminal investigations into the journalists calling it a scam.
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#114How about just get rid of double taxation in corporate taxes? Eventually, taxes will get paid via distributions or sale of stock by individuals.
Some amount of revenue must be raised. Suggest an alternative. Not taxing corp profits will result is less overall tax income (it wont be made up in shareholder taxes).
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That's basically what happened when they tried (twice I think ?) to raid Uber offices in France, their boss pressed a kill switch and everything went down in seconds. It completely blocked the investigation. Afterward Uber helped Macron campaign who then ordered National Financial Prosecutor's office to "stop bothering them" so I don't think anything new happened since. Edit: Some sources in below replies for infos o…
That sounds so illegal, it's crazy there aren't consequences for that. EDIT: Article on the kills switch https://www.theguardian.com/news/2022/jul/10/uber-bosses-tol...
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Well no that's not really what happens, what happens is that legally the french entity is just a service provider for the irish HQ. They pretend it's a simple marketing agency and that the real value is provided by the irish entity
Doesn't matter - you can't make any judgement without knowing these numbers. They may have actually paid a higher tax rate than previously - we don't know.
The French branch made 160k of profit while the Irish branch made more than all the other EU countries combined
FYI: france is the second market for airbnb after the US... do you really think they would even bother if they did make 160k there when they make 300m+ per year globally ? Do you really think their second market nets them I dont't know much but I'm not a fool
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Tourism_rankings
https://www.searchlogistics.com/learn/statistics/airbnb-stat...
https://www.rte.ie/news/business/2023/1127/1418779-revenues-...
https://www.breakingnews.ie/business/airbnb-ireland-records-...
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#117Earlier quoted context omitted.
Why should it be illegal? Isn't it akin to "right to remain silent"? Why the need to present any information to police unless it is asked by court. Assuming that they didn't delete the data, just moved it to somewhere safe where it couldn't directly be taken away. We had a raid in one of my previous company due to copyright violation due to a user uploaded content. Authorities came in to take in all the codebase, rep…
It can be destruction of evidence, which is illegal.
I have no idea what french law says about it but I think it's morally fine and don't care that uber did it.
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#118I know I'm likely alone in this opinion, but corporate income tax seems like a poorly designed tax to me. Why should companies pay taxes in a year with high profits, even if they face losses for the next ten years? Why should I pay corporate income tax when dividends and income are taxed anyway? Corporate income tax also seems to heavily influence business strategies as a consequence, which wasn't its intended purpos…
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>First the data is stored in another country. Plus you can engage in some jurisdiction arbitrage where all the documents pertaining to country A is stored in country B, and all the documents pertaining to country B is stored in country A. > Second are they really going to raid and take the drives at an AWS data center that has other customer’s information? You can also ask AWS to produce the files/documents for you.
And those files are hopefully encrypted at rest and probably using a customer managed key…
Not an AWS expert but how does that even work? Does AWS connect to your HSM remotely? Or is a cloud HSM that's also hosted by AWS?
Re: Netflix Europe offices raided in tax fraud probe
#120Earlier quoted context omitted.
That's basically what happened when they tried (twice I think ?) to raid Uber offices in France, their boss pressed a kill switch and everything went down in seconds. It completely blocked the investigation. Afterward Uber helped Macron campaign who then ordered National Financial Prosecutor's office to "stop bothering them" so I don't think anything new happened since. Edit: Some sources in below replies for infos o…
That sounds so illegal, it's crazy there aren't consequences for that. EDIT: Article on the kills switch https://www.theguardian.com/news/2022/jul/10/uber-bosses-tol...