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

[Suresh Ramasubramanian]

How is a global / multilateral tax treaty an internet governance issue,
just becuase it involves transfer over the internet?

Remember, the exact same tax laws are used by manufacturing companies that
locate plants in mexico and china, accounting departments in ireland or the
bahamas etc.

This is absolutely not specific to the internet, or to its governance.

I agree it is a significant issue, but this is completely unrelated to
internet governance.

Norbert Bollow [23/05/13 17:04 +0200]:
>McTim <dogwallah at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> On Thu, May 23, 2013 at 4:40 AM, michael gurstein
>> <gurstein at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> <snip>
>>
>> > If the shoe fits, wear it...
>>
>>
>> If you have specific allegations regarding folks on this list, please
>> air them publicly, otherwise, it is very disrespectful to
>> allege/insinuate without any evidence.
>
>[with IGC coordinator hat on]
>
>Actually we don't need more talking about each other on the IGC list,
>we need to get to the point where there is significantly less of it.
>
>Therefore I hereby request that if this thread is continued, it should
>be returned to its substantive discussion topics, such as whether the
>Internet enables tax avoidance, whether it is desirable to take any
>actions (such as a reform of tax systems?) to reduce tax avoidance
>oriented uses of the Internet, whether and how given the fact that
>opportunities for tax avoidance are sometimes ruthlessly exploited,
>multistakeholder Internet governance arrangements should be designed for
>robustness against potential attempts to exploit weaknesses, etc, etc.
>
>Greetings,
>Norbert
>
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