[governance] Re: Telecom TV on Google and Taxes

[McTim]

On Thu, Dec 13, 2012 at 8:23 AM, Louis Pouzin (well) <pouzin at well.com> wrote:
> When an industry gets subsidies, like Boeing or Airbus, it's fiscally legal,
> except that each one, or their govt, may sue the other for unfair
> competition, usually in the WTO.
>
> When Google doesn't pay taxes


but they do pay taxes.  Just not as much as some would like.

Who is to say what is fair?  the IGC?


, it's de facto subsidies, and unfair
> competition towards any non US business trying to compete with Google. It's
> actually double subsidies. Indeed subsidies are usually paid by govt wanting
> to help their national industry. In Google's case it's paid by govts (read
> taxpayers) in non US countries. Isn't scam ?

International tax treaties allow such behavior, which we may agree is
sub-optimal for a number of reasons, but it is still legal.


-- 
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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