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2018-12-18 Europe

France to impose new tax on internet and tech giants

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Posted by Besoeker 2018-12-18 01:08|| || Front Page|| [10 views ] Top

#1 The tax & grab crowd doesn't miss an opportunity to stick it to somebody...

Posted by Raj 2018-12-18 07:07|| 2018-12-18 07:07|| Front Page Top

#2 And like all business taxes, it gets passed thru to the consumer. In the case of "free" stuff like gurgle and fartbook, that means they have to hike their monetization of your personal information.

Winning!

Posted by M. Murcek 2018-12-18 07:28|| 2018-12-18 07:28|| Front Page Top

#3 Next they will be taxing text messages.

Posted by Ebbavirt Clunk4147 2018-12-18 07:42|| 2018-12-18 07:42|| Front Page Top

#4 Are voters "angered" by the low rates, or are politicians just lusting for the cash?

Posted by Rob Crawford 2018-12-18 08:02|| 2018-12-18 08:02|| Front Page Top

#5 A previous article points out that France has been technically bankrupt since 2000. With interest rates increasing the government has got desperate and has implemented all sorts of regressive taxes that hit the masses instead off looking at reducing the government's spending.

Posted by 3dc 2018-12-18 10:26|| 2018-12-18 10:26|| Front Page Top

#6 ...France has been technically bankrupt since 2000. With interest rates increasing the government has got desperate and has implemented all sorts of regressive taxes that hit the masses instead off looking at reducing the government's spending.

I thought I was reading about France in 1789 for a second.

Posted by DarthVader 2018-12-18 10:43|| 2018-12-18 10:43|| Front Page Top

#7 Heck, just seize the 'means of production' and nationalize it all. What could go wrong? /sarc

Posted by Procopius2k 2018-12-18 11:08|| 2018-12-18 11:08|| Front Page Top

#8 Notice how journalists writes fake news.

The taxes are on costumers of those.

Posted by Spanky Whuter1088 2018-12-18 13:25|| 2018-12-18 13:25|| Front Page Top

#9 Google alone has over 130 billion revenue, its share of that one half billion is really going to hurt.

Posted by KBK 2018-12-18 23:30|| 2018-12-18 23:30|| Front Page Top

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