C_J I think the problem is that unless you can get every single country to sign up to the same tax regime (nigh impossible), they will just transfer their operations to wherever is cheapest. This means in practice that anyone signing up is effectively just agreeing to kill off all the well-paid tech jobs in their own country, which would be madness.
I agree and disagree, it depends on how much hardship you are willing to endure for tax equality, and how much belief you put in other countries following your lead. Dave’s example of the recent Australian publication laws regards tech companies has some comparable elements. They struck out on their own, ahead of any other country, and have made it work (early days I know).
Consider how Thatcher was happy to fuck the miners, admittedly a very different industry, which in many ways is hardly comparable, but there was political will, and as such, change was foisted upon us. If there was any political will to have true tax equality they would make the changes, and it wouldn’t be seen as ‘madness’. My point is not a comparison of those industries, just that change happens when the people in power want it. We have the leverage against foreign companies, as we can refuse them our market, or in Googles case we can ‘turn them off at the plug’. Something which as a now Brexiteering Britain First country we should do anyway, think how many British companies could fill that gap??? No?
Amazingly, the ‘maverick like Trump’ in this country was Jezza. He was actually up for some genuinely lefty polices, but unfortunately we all thought he looked like a creepy geography teacher, so we decided to laugh at every suggestion he made and then believed Murdoch’s lies about him being anti Semitic.
