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

[Riaz K Tayob]

This is the proximate reason. But it also goes to motive about corporations.

MS is useful, but if it is deliberative rather than representative the 
issue is much wider. It is a strategy of rhetoric to create a strawman 
and then to push him down, in that, one cannot be presumptively for 
BigCorporates or against them, it depends. The latter is anathema to 
pro-corporate (in effect if not intent, consciously or worse still 
unconsciously!!) views, in the form of Liberatarians or simply 
neoclassical economics inspired views (the latter cuts across first and 
third world's).

If the balance of taxes between labour and Corporates is not fair, there 
is NO reason to presume the market is better than institutional or state 
regulation. Here differences are at first principles and discussions 
around symptoms will inevitably be at cross purposes. The issue from my 
side of the fence is, if MS cannot take the power and contextual 
differentials into account it is problematic (can be overcome, but one 
would first have to acknowledge the diagnosis of the problem before 
proceeding). In that case, the state is the form, which does not however 
explain the poverty of protest on this list in particular regarding the 
enormous overreach by the US state.

Riaz


On 2013/05/24 05:09 PM, Norbert Bollow wrote:
> e-commerce is an important aspect of the use of the Internet, and
> any tax treaty that impacts on e-commerce, even if only by resulting
> in some requirements to demonstrate in some cases that the e-commerce is
> “real” in some sense and not a front for tax evasion, will have some
> influence on shaping the evolution and use of the Internet.



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