Google tax.

[Sedericus]

The French Government are wanting to tax Google's Ad Revenue, whats your opinion on this?

personally i think its ridiculous!

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/8448389.stm

 

[Lord Burgess1]

Meh..

I'm not French, so no worries.

 

[Njiekovic]

Completely retarded. Particularly the part where they want to redistribute the money to musicians etc.

 

[Sedericus]

it's not about being french because this is the french government wanting europe as a whole to do it.

 

[Seff]

If you tax all other kinds of advertising, it makes sense to tax Internet adds as well.

 

[Sedericus]

not really considering the internet belongs to no one where as advertising in a country is well, the countries property.

 

[Lord Burgess1]

it's not about being french because this is the french government wanting europe as a whole to do it.

Well, France can **** off then.

 

[Tibertus]

Is Google a French company? No. So why would France be able to tax it? 

OK, after reading the news story, France is PROPOSING internet adds be taxed. Difference from them doing the taxation themselves. Still stupid.

 

[Seff]

Because it operates in France as well?

 

[Sedericus]

ha ha, i do look like your blunt attitude!

Edit: 2 posts as i was typing my reply to Lord Burgess1 

Edit 2: if google physically advertises over the tv etc then yes they can tax the ass off it! but not the net, they don't own the net.

 

[Lord Burgess1]

What, you can look like an attitude?

Do you mean

Ha Ha, I do like your blunt attitude!

 

[Sedericus]

sorry, currently at work trying to work and type. I'm a bloke, half the brain on sex other half the brain on jobs at hand...

 

[Tibertus]

Because it operates in France as well?

That would imply that France somehow owns a portion of the internet, which is ludicrous.

 

[Lord Burgess1]

Because it operates in France as well?

That would imply that France somehow owns a portion of the internet, which is ludicrous.

Yeah, France doesn't even own cheese

 

[Seff]

That would imply that France somehow owns a portion of the internet, which is ludicrous.

I don't know how you'd determine which adds to tax, but fact is that some adds are seen by frenchies, and those adds are theoretically taxable by the frenchies.

 

[Tibertus]

France wouldn't even own France if it weren't for Hitler being a ****up.

That would imply that France somehow owns a portion of the internet, which is ludicrous.

I don't know how you'd determine which adds to tax, but fact is that some adds are seen by frenchies, and those adds are theoretically taxable by the frenchies.

That's just silly. Frenchies don't have eyes.

 

[Seff]

*Cue someone saying 'no, it'd be soviet'*

I've seen too many of those arguments for it to be funny.

 

[Lord Burgess1]

France is full of Communist peasants though.

 

[Sedericus]

That would imply that France somehow owns a portion of the internet, which is ludicrous.

I don't know how you'd determine which adds to tax, but fact is that some adds are seen by frenchies, and those adds are theoretically taxable by the frenchies.

but that would suggest that the adds that frenchies see (which the rest of the world can also see) are property of france but last time i checked, france doesnt own the net.

 

[Tibertus]

Yes, everyone can argue which country did the most work out of the Allies, but what isn't arguable is that Germany wouldn't have been defeatable if Hitler wasn't a schizophrenic lunatic.