[governance] Hmmmm... Google: "Internet Freedom!"... (from taxes?

[Suresh Ramasubramanian]

If you are a US citizen, the income you make anywhere in the world is subject to US tax, e&oe double tax avoidance treaties.  Double Irish, offshore shell companies and such are as old as the hills.

Again, reaganomics notwithstanding, that has little or nothing to do with WCIT.

--srs (iPad)

On 03-Dec-2012, at 18:49, Dominique Lacroix <dl at panamo.eu> wrote:

> Tax cut is fiscal dumping. That's the connection.
> Some Internet companies can escape taxes because their activities aren't linked to territories. Others are linked to countries and pay full taxes.
> 
> For example, in the new TLDs candidates. Some hundred of projects are declared in British Virgin Islands, Bermuda, Cayman, Gibraltar etc.
> They are US companies and nevertheless, thay are counted as European projects!
> 
> The real numbers of new TLDs projects are: 
> 
> US: 1230
> EU: 356 and not 675 as Icann displays it.
> Asia-Pacific: 303
> South America: 24
> Africa: 17
> 
> Destroying the basic equilibria is dangerous for any people. Even dangerous for US people. We can see the actual results on the middle classes and environment...
> 
> 
> @+, Dominique
> 
> 
> 
> Le 03/12/12 12:39, Suresh Ramasubramanian a écrit :
>> Of course the tax dispute is not with the telecom regulators of those countries and would continue regardless of the outcome in the WCIT, so you will forgive me if I don't quite get the connection 
>> 
>> --srs (htc one x)
>> 
>> 
>> ----- Reply message -----
>> From: "Dominique Lacroix" <dl at panamo.eu>
>> To: <governance at lists.igcaucus.org>
>> Subject: [governance] Hmmmm... Google: "Internet Freedom!"... (from taxes?
>> Date: Mon, Dec 3, 2012 4:35 PM
>> 
>> 
>> Thanks Michael. Also Germany:
>> http://www.linformaticien.com/actualites/id/27219/menace-d-une-taxe-en-allemagne-google-defend-la-liberte-de-surfer.aspx
>> 
>> It was a similar case with "Freedom of the seas", before international 
>> regulation...
>> 
>> @+, Dominique
>> 
>> -- 
>> Dominique Lacroix
>> http://reseaux.blog.lemonde.fr
>> 
>> Société européenne de l'Internet
>> http://www.ies-france.eu
>> +33 (0)6 63 24 39 14
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> Le 03/12/12 11:40, michael gurstein a écrit :
>> > http://delimiter.com.au/2012/11/23/australian-govt-pledges-action-on-google-
>> > tax-avoidance/
>> >
>> > http://au.news.yahoo.com/thewest/a/-/news/15431664/france-says-google-would-
>> > lose-court-case-over-taxes/
>> >
>> > http://en.apa.az/news_google_italy_suspected_of_tax_evasion__183392.html
>> >
>> > http://www.3news.co.nz/Starbucks-Google-Amazon-accused-of-UK-tax-evasion/tab
>> > id/369/articleID/276457/Default.aspx
>> >
>> > http://tech.slashdot.org/story/12/11/23/0156212/australian-govt-pledges-acti
>> > on-on-google-tax-evasion
>> >
>> > http://gurstein.wordpress.com/2012/10/11/the-ituwcit-thinking-about-internet
>> > -regulatory-policy-from-an-ldc-perspective/
> 
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