Too late, already happened. It’s the reason why Ireland is the home for such notable Irish tech companies as Google, MSFT, Amazon, Meta, and others.
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MyVeryRealName@lemmy.world 1 week agoYou can’t increase taxes on companies. They’ll leave the country.
RogueJello@lemmy.world 1 week ago
MyVeryRealName@lemmy.world 1 week ago
Those are American companies
RogueJello@lemmy.world 6 days ago
Bingo, but that’s not what the legal paper work says.
MyVeryRealName@lemmy.world 6 days ago
That is what the legal paper work says. For Google, for instance, it says Delaware.
520@lemmy.zip 1 week ago
Great sarcasm!
That is sarcasm, right?
MyVeryRealName@lemmy.world 1 week ago
Nope
Nalivai@lemmy.world 1 week ago
Damn, I wish that was true
MyVeryRealName@lemmy.world 1 week ago
Why?
Magnum@infosec.pub 1 week ago
fibojoly@sh.itjust.works 1 week ago
Oh shit, you weren’t sarcastic?
MyVeryRealName@lemmy.world 1 week ago
Lol no
WrathEnchanter@europe.pub 1 week ago
Oh no! What if they took all their fucking datacenters and their pollution and their buying all RAM and their pulling all electricity out of the grid with them?
MyVeryRealName@lemmy.world 1 week ago
What on god’s green Earth makes you think they would?
WrathEnchanter@europe.pub 1 week ago
Well if not, then all their stuff is still there and could be seized. Say… as a moving-out-of-country-tax
MyVeryRealName@lemmy.world 1 week ago
That would ruin the reputation of your country
wholookshere@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 week ago
If they don’t contribute their share to taxes, why would I as a citizen want them?
MyVeryRealName@lemmy.world 1 week ago
Do have what they already give.
wholookshere@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 week ago
What, the 0 dollars the billionaire pay?
MyVeryRealName@lemmy.world 1 week ago
I thought you meant the companies.