[governance] The noose is closing on global Internet and other enabled tax dodging

[Suresh Ramasubramanian]

Given that you put civil society in quotes I suppose you doubt their 
credentials to be identified as civil society

That bit of innuendo aside, I for one don't particularly like the practice 
but I would like to call your attention to three things

1. Tax avoidance, unlike tax evasion, is not a crime

2. This appears to be exclusively a dispute between various national tax 
authorities and multi national companies

3. More to the point, I fail to see any particular relevance of this issue 
to internet governance so i would be glad if you could go into more detail 
on that aspect

--srs (htc one x)



On 22 May 2013 12:43:51 PM "michael gurstein" <gurstein at gmail.com> wrote:
> Whatever certain of our ``civil society`` colleagues might say (or want...
> the loss of tax revenue facilitated by various tax havens and the Internet
> enabled capacity to seamlessly and without cost shift activities/formal
> locations etc. is starting to hurt and some sort of coordinated policy
> framework is likely to emerge.
>
> http://www.nytimes.com/2013/05/22/business/global/ireland-defends-attractive
> -tax-rates.html?partner=rss&emc=rss
>
>



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