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Originally Posted by sa547
*facepalm* Again, another government trying to control the Internet.
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No.
Google is a monster in term of economy, it's based in Ireland but most of its profit are international, it pays no redevance to the countries where it gains (neither it pays to Ireland but it's their problem) and as such it deserves to be taxed as any tertiary sector. Control of internet has nothing to do with it, actually I'm surprised you could say this, how did you go from tax to control? I don't follow the logical link.
And yeah, they are searching for money, even beer get taxed hue hue hue.
On a side note, it's quite amazing so far the giant of the web weren't taxed (or barely), they provides service in countries, the moment they do they have to pay as if they were based in the country.
But the means it's done, ie by the newspaper lobby is bad and utterly stupid, they managed to transform a logical tax into a political issue. /clap clap clap./