Comment Re:Let me see if I've got this right... (Score 1) 139
This may be a bit confusing, but Australia is not in the EU, using three articles about Australia does not support your argument.
The Italian one looks like a disagreement over if they had a presence in Italy to then be forced to pay taxes there as well. They did not have a presence in Italy, but Italy claimed that they use network lines and servers in Italy, so should have to pay there too despite having no business presence in the country.
The problem is, almost universally, businesses are taxed on their profits, if they have expenses to a central corp somewhere else that makes their profit disappear, they have less profit to be taxed. Much like Ikea does with their locations in the US, they offshore the profit to reduce their tax load.
https://europeangreens.eu/news...
You act like this is a purely American thing, while European businesses do it to the US as well.