Quote (Knoppie @ 18 Sep 2018 02:00)
Wealth is going towards corporation world wide, decreasing the wealth difference with countries and multinationals.
It almost seems like our politicians have become less capable than top CEO's because of it. And perhaps that might actually be the case.
But at least in Ireland, like you've mentioned, Apple was sewed by the EU, and the EU pushed for reforms, if Ireland would have been alone in it, that might not have happened.
The same was done to the Netherlands, to reform mail firm corporation and not be on lists of tax heavens for corporations. Europe pushing for reform to evade corporate taxation.
/e2: and lets not forget Microsoft internet explorer / google advertisement policy, EU is feared for sewing multinationals. I can't think of an entity doing it more...
/e: Our corporations are doing the same in Africa btw, more effective due to the countries not being economically/legally united.
The taxation a corporation like Heineken evades in Africa would increase some government spending with around a full percentage. And that's but one corporation.
yeah the EU did something after many years, the whole thing goes to court, which will take even more years until you and i have forgotten it all and we will probably never hear of it again
proper action would be to force them to pay a fair amount of taxes immediately or their products will be banned completely
the EU is a giant entity of corporate puppets and as we all know the bird does not take a dump in its own nest (german saying)
and africa.....these people have no clue how to even build a society or what the concept of taxes even means