What competitors will Amazon have in France if all the local competitors cannot escape paying local corporate taxes and Amazons of the word just throw a few millions at lawyers to shop around for the most convenient tax haven.
Isn't that exactly what VAT tax is for?
>And where does your assessment comes from? Just guess?
An educated guess that I am strongly confident in, to the point of willing to bet most of my savings on it. And I am not the kind of person who would usually bet any money on anything at all. My most risky money bet so far is putting a portion of my paycheck in 401k.
And yes, this makes it very hard for new businesses to enter the market as they do not have the resources necessary to do tax optimization.
Edit: I don't work for Amazon, though my brother does. I also don't work at a company that has much of a stake in this fight.