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Originally Posted by MattW
It's quite scary and sad to read some condescending remark by someone who so obviously believes he's smarter than the people he is mocking and still does not frame a single coherent argument. How someone could write a post with zero content and manage to look down on "some people" is beyond me.
Such a person possibly wouldn't recognise irony if it hit him over the head with a hammer 
Matt |
Oh, it would, it would...
I don't have to, and I don't want to frame a single coherent argument because the thread is spiraling in a discussion that has nothing to do with the beginning of it. But generally speaking some views here are biased, based on wrong assumptions, with either not much knowledge of the EU Treaties or a very personal interpretation of them. I discuss this daily at length, so no, I won't give you arguments, the texts as such are clear, even if not to everyone's taste.
Back to the original topic, and that will be my last post on this thread :
What p... Ms Filipetti off anyway is not so much the VAT problem, btw on pbooks much more than on ebooks, as the problem of direct company taxation, with Amazon doing much of its turnover in France but paying its taxes in Luxemburg under much friendlier conditions than in France.
Here an excellent explanation (in french, sorry for that)
http://www.bfmtv.com/economie/exclus...ce-381470.html. BTW, the discussion is not new...
And it is the fact that Amazon is "inattaquable" (sorry, I do not have the english word for this), on the VAT but also on the direct taxation that annoys Ms Filipetti so much, and makes her retaliate on the free delivery. Although the ones behind all this are Moscovici, Minstre de l'Economie et des Finances, and Cazeneuve, Ministre du Budget.
Funny enough: France is not the only country annoyed with Amazon tax strategy, but do you hear Germany's Culture Minister making such noise?