They already do. If you are selling from a tax haven (especially services), there is a 15-30% withholding. Of course, you might be able to recover some of that. But it's a defacto tax.
Nobody here seems to understand that this is not about taxes but rather about re-shoring trade power back to the Western world (which is why it concerns the EU the most). EU/US and other developed countries offloaded a part of their industries 20-30 years ago to under-developing countries to save up on some costs.
These countries (evil 0% tax countries) reduced taxes, wages and regulation to attract these offshores companies. Not because these countries like to play games, but because that's their only attraction point. And here we are, 30 years later or something like that, and the EU/US have lost a significant portion of their industrial base.
Now, they want it back. Either because they have a high unemployment rate (ie: France, Italy) and they have actually people who can do these jobs; or because they think the balance has swift too much in favor of these "international" companies and zero-tax countries. Some of them have become too powerful and one of them even downright dangerous to the world order.
Of course, I'm not holding my breath for the "developing" world. It still lacks lots of the infrastructure and many key industries that the EU/US can pressure with. The place to look at will be South East Asia. Europe seems to have lost here to US/Japan and China. I think Europe is going to come to a dark realization real soon. The US might emerge, again ugh, as the winner. China is hated by pretty much all its neighbors.
Nobody here seems to understand that this is not about taxes but rather about re-shoring trade power back to the Western world (which is why it concerns the EU the most). EU/US and other developed countries offloaded a part of their industries 20-30 years ago to under-developing countries to save up on some costs.
These countries (evil 0% tax countries) reduced taxes, wages and regulation to attract these offshores companies. Not because these countries like to play games, but because that's their only attraction point. And here we are, 30 years later or something like that, and the EU/US have lost a significant portion of their industrial base.
Now, they want it back. Either because they have a high unemployment rate (ie: France, Italy) and they have actually people who can do these jobs; or because they think the balance has swift too much in favor of these "international" companies and zero-tax countries. Some of them have become too powerful and one of them even downright dangerous to the world order.
Of course, I'm not holding my breath for the "developing" world. It still lacks lots of the infrastructure and many key industries that the EU/US can pressure with. The place to look at will be South East Asia. Europe seems to have lost here to US/Japan and China. I think Europe is going to come to a dark realization real soon. The US might emerge, again ugh, as the winner. China is hated by pretty much all its neighbors.