Netflix Europe offices raided in tax fraud probe

I wonder how these "office raids" would work for remote first companies that don't have much of an office presence and with little or no physical documents and everything being stored in the cloud somewhere.

Sounds like the tech companies won't be expanding outside of Ireland for a while ....

Dutch are extremely business friendly with streamlined simple bureaucracy but they won't tolerate tax evasion. The correct approach would be to negotiate with the tax service.

As a non-European, it seems like these raids happen regularly to large companies' offices in Europe (mostly US companies). Maybe some Europeans can chime in and answer something that's been bothering me: Does this happen to smaller companies, too? Is it a serious problem to getting work done, not knowing if regulators are going to shut you down and rifle through your filing cabinets?

The meat:<p>&gt; Last year, French media outlet La Lettre reported that until 2021, Netflix in France minimised its tax payments by declaring its turnover generated in France to the Netherlands.<p>&gt; investigators are trying to determine whether Netflix continued to attempt to minimise its profits after 2021.<p>Wasn&#x27;t Uber or some other US company found doing something similar? First they were found to be in violation of some law&#x2F;dodging taxes, said they&#x27;d fix it and later found to not have done anything about it? Is that behavior perhaps more accepted in the US than Europe?

Is a mini-series about this already greenlit?

I know I&#x27;m likely alone in this opinion, but corporate income tax seems like a poorly designed tax to me. Why should companies pay taxes in a year with high profits, even if they face losses for the next ten years? Why should I pay corporate income tax when dividends and income are taxed anyway? Corporate income tax also seems to heavily influence business strategies as a consequence, which wasn&#x27;t its intended purpose.

Is this what Emily was doing in Paris?

How about just get rid of double taxation in corporate taxes? Eventually, taxes will get paid via distributions or sale of stock by individuals.