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

[Suresh Ramasubramanian]

Tis is absolutely nothing related to economic schools of thought.  It is more to do with a constant refusal to acknowledge a stakeholder group (corporations) in any but an adversarial light, and a tendency to attribute mens rea to any and every action that they take.

--srs (iPad)

On 24-May-2013, at 22:53, Riaz K Tayob <riaz.tayob at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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