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

[Nyangkwe Agien Aaron]

Suresh

It has an implication that tax policies have with certain companies in
terms of political cronyism et al.

Through certain tax policies a sureptitious control of the internet
find its ugly way to this sphere. And this is why that policy process
has to be carefully monitored.

We are walking along a booby trap and legal minds on the caucaus have
to be extremely alert.

I"ll be back latter.

Aaron

On 5/22/13, Suresh Ramasubramanian <suresh at hserus.net> wrote:
> 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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Aaron Agien Nyangkwe
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