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0 pointsbilbo0s5y ago0 comments

I thought that was a strange phrasing as well?

Since when is YouTube more powerful than national governments? People seem to be under some confusion as to how business works. The governments tell YouTube what YouTube has to do to operate in their jurisdiction, and YouTube either does it, or leaves that jurisdiction.

If Togo made the demand, you can leave. If the US or Germany make the demand, you say, "Right away sirs", and you start collecting their taxes.

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Isinlor5y ago· 2 in thread

Then I guess EU should do the same.

Americans on YouTube should pay taxes in EU on EU ad views or YouTube should leave EU.

But I think in practice EU is thinking more in direction of simply taxing global profits of tech giants.

systemvoltage5y ago

Tax global income of a company not based in EU for doing business in the EU? Is that what you mean?

Isinlor5y ago

Yes, EU seems to be looking to establish rules to determine how much profit a company generated in the EU and tax that [0].

> The new rules will also change how profits are allocated to Member States in a way which better reflects how companies can create value online: for example, depending on where the user is based at the time of consumption.

Seems like currently EU is in the process of public consultations on a new digital taxation [1].

I'm not sure how the details changed since the proposal, or where they will go. But EU is certainly moving on it.

[0] https://ec.europa.eu/taxation_customs/business/company-tax/f...

[1] https://ec.europa.eu/info/law/better-regulation/have-your-sa...

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