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Is World Government Evil? | 245 comments | Create New Account

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Is World Government Evil?

Authored by: Anonymous on Friday, May 17 2013 @ 01:51 AM EDT

which is why the Subject line says World Government.

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World Government probably would be evil

Authored by: cricketjeff on Friday, May 17 2013 @ 07:06 AM EDT

But it isn't needed to make national taxation work.

All it requires is for each national tax authority to act reasonably (yeah I
know, fat chance!). Essentially they should say that all business activity here
is taxed at x% and that tax paid to a relevant government is an allowable
expense. The company then only has to show that they have paid tax at y% already
and so are only liable for tax at x-y%.

The current practice is for a large multinational to claim to be based in a low
tax jurisdiction, but employ there staff where the work really needs to be done,
then do 0.01% of the work at their notional headquarters and walk away
laughing.

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