Comment on Top EU court orders Apple to pay €13 billion tax bill.

ogeist@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

• BruceTwarzen@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  So you’re saying they should just buy a country and continue to not pay taxes?

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  • Tetsuo@jlai.lu ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Honestly, don’t give them ideas…

    If a business quite literally controls a country we are fucked.

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    • monkeyman69@lemmynsfw.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Let me introduce you to the United States of America…

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      • Damage@feddit.it ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        South Korea

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    • Skates@feddit.nl ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      They’re* literally fucked.

      It’s a lot harder to pass laws that discriminate vs exactly one business, than it is to sanction one particular country. With shell corporations, hiding accounts etc, there’s no way you can make a law that says “apple has to do X”. But you can pass sanctions against, eg: Russia.

      First corpo to buy a country is gonna quickly find out politics is harder than business, and greasing politicians’ pockets is harder when you have literally hundreds of countries you’re negotiating with.

      Also, armies. Try getting on the wrong side of country x, might get yourself a nice invasion pretty soon.

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