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

[Suresh Ramasubramanian]

In which case a discussion with specifics is in order

Please do share your thoughts

--srs (htc one x)



On 22 May 2013 1:08:36 PM Nyangkwe Agien Aaron <nyangkweagien at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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
> >>
> >>
> >
> >
> >
> >
>
>
> --
> Aaron Agien Nyangkwe
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