<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto"><div>Oh, so if the government closes loopholes in their tax act and/or clamps down on people who are over-enthusiastic users of such loopholes, they'll immediately divert all the money they claw back to one good cause after the other?<br><br>--srs (iPad)</div><div><br>On 13-Dec-2012, at 19:02, "michael gurstein" <<a href="mailto:gurstein@gmail.com">gurstein@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br><br></div><blockquote type="cite"><div><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1"><meta name="Generator" content="Microsoft Word 14 (filtered medium)"><style><!--
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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--><div class="WordSection1"><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">Hmmm… Dividends for US billionaires or funds for rape crisis centres… (probably ``unfair`` comparison but so is not paying your fair share… <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D"><a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/2012/nov/12/starbucks-tax-avoidance-controversy">http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/2012/nov/12/starbucks-tax-avoidance-controversy</a><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">Greene, a UK Uncut activist, said funding for refugees and rape crisis centres faced cuts unless companies paid their fair share of tax. HMRC estimates around £32bn was lost to tax avoidance last year.<o:p></o:p></span></i></p><p class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D"><o:p> </o:p></span></i></p><p class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">Greene said the government could easily bring in billions that could fund vital services by clamping down on tax avoidance, but was instead "making cuts that are forcing women to choose between motherhood and work, and trapping them in abusive relationships".<o:p></o:p></span></i></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"">From:</span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif""> <a href="mailto:governance-request@lists.igcaucus.org">governance-request@lists.igcaucus.org</a> [<a href="mailto:governance-request@lists.igcaucus.org">mailto:governance-request@lists.igcaucus.org</a>] <b>On Behalf Of </b>McTim<br><b>Sent:</b> Thursday, December 13, 2012 12:16 PM<br><b>To:</b> <a href="mailto:governance@lists.igcaucus.org">governance@lists.igcaucus.org</a>; Salanieta T. Tamanikaiwaimaro<br><b>Cc:</b> parminder<br><b>Subject:</b> Re: [governance] Re: Telecom TV on Google and Taxes<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt"><o:p> </o:p></p><div><p class="MsoNormal">On Wed, Dec 12, 2012 at 11:40 PM, Salanieta T. Tamanikaiwaimaro <<a href="mailto:salanieta.tamanikaiwaimaro@gmail.com" target="_blank">salanieta.tamanikaiwaimaro@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt"><o:p> </o:p></p><div><div><p class="MsoNormal">On Thu, Dec 13, 2012 at 5:33 PM, parminder <<a href="mailto:parminder@itforchange.net" target="_blank">parminder@itforchange.net</a>> wrote:<o:p></o:p></p><div><p class="MsoNormal"><br><span style="font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"">Rather shameful that google paid 3 percent tax on its overseas profit!! It surely leaves it with a lot of money to spend in lobbying and advocacy efforts to keep global markets free for its unlettered operations... Like organising campaigns against ITU, German legislature, and so on. <br><br>Would IGC write an open letter to Google that its tax evasion policy is anti people, and it should pays its taxes where it makes its profit. (Or is it that the IG civil society does not go into such re-distributional questions ) It is not rhetorical but a real question to the list, and its coordinator. </span><o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p></div></div><div><p class="MsoNormal">What does the list think? <o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal">+1 if you think the IGC should write a letter to Google<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal">-1 if the IGC should not write a letter to Google<o:p></o:p></p></div></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal">-1<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal">They are not evading taxes, that is illegal, they are avoiding taxes, which we ( all rational beings) do to a certain extent!<o:p></o:p></p></div></div><p class="MsoNormal"><br clear="all"><o:p></o:p></p><div><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p></div><p class="MsoNormal">-- <br>Cheers,<br><br>McTim<br>"A name indicates what we seek. An address indicates where it is. A route indicates how we get there." Jon Postel<o:p></o:p></p></div></div></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><div><span>____________________________________________________________</span><br><span>You received this message as a subscriber on the list:</span><br><span> <a href="mailto:governance@lists.igcaucus.org">governance@lists.igcaucus.org</a></span><br><span>To be removed from the list, visit:</span><br><span> <a href="http://www.igcaucus.org/unsubscribing">http://www.igcaucus.org/unsubscribing</a></span><br><span></span><br><span>For all other list information and functions, see:</span><br><span> <a href="http://lists.igcaucus.org/info/governance">http://lists.igcaucus.org/info/governance</a></span><br><span>To edit your profile and to find the IGC's charter, see:</span><br><span> <a href="http://www.igcaucus.org/">http://www.igcaucus.org/</a></span><br><span></span><br><span>Translate this email: <a href="http://translate.google.com/translate_t">http://translate.google.com/translate_t</a></span><br></div></blockquote></body></html>