Insights (Filter: taxation)
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Taxing Silicon Valley – or Taxing France?
By: Matthias BauerFew policies better illustrate the gap between political rhetoric and economic reality than France's digital services tax. Marketed as an exercise in...
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Restoring Europe’s Industrial Competitiveness Starts with Tax Reform
Europe will not restore its industrial competitiveness through additional funds, strategies, or policy frameworks. It will do so when firms –...
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Europe’s Tax Bureaucracies Chase Digital Taxes While EUR 1 Trillion in VAT Revenue Lies Untapped
For nearly a decade, policymakers across Europe have pursued a new frontier in taxation: digital services taxes (DSTs). The political narrative has...
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What European Industrial Champions and US Tech Firms Actually Pay in Corporate Taxes
Today, an EU Expert Group on Taxation of the Digital Economy will present its conclusion in the presence of Commissioner President Barroso. The...
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More Threats to European Way of Life (part 3): Movies on Smartphones.
No rest for the wicked – after declaring war on books and taxis, it took the Hollande government less than a week to come back with a new tax on...
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Taxis and Taxes: More “Threats” to the European Way of Life? (part II)
A couple of days before Brussels shut down for winter holidays, I was reached by an email that my op-ed on internet taxation in France and Italy is...