[governance] Re: Telecom TV on Google and Taxes

[McTim]

On Wed, Dec 12, 2012 at 11:40 PM, Salanieta T. Tamanikaiwaimaro <
salanieta.tamanikaiwaimaro at gmail.com> wrote:

>
>
> On Thu, Dec 13, 2012 at 5:33 PM, parminder <parminder at itforchange.net>wrote:
>
>>
>> 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.
>>
>> 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.
>>
>
> What does the list think?
> +1 if you think the IGC should write a letter to Google
> -1 if the IGC should not write a letter to Google
>

-1

They are not evading taxes, that is illegal, they are avoiding taxes, which
we ( all rational beings) do to a certain extent!


-- 
Cheers,

McTim
"A name indicates what we seek. An address indicates where it is. A route
indicates how we get there."  Jon Postel
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