Mark Zuckerberg paid ZERO tax in Europe in 2019 and his Facebook operation paid just $28m – in spite of record £2bn in revenues in UK alone. Netflix got a tax refund although they generated 1bn in revenue!

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op-ed by François Arouet
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We all know how corrupt Facebook and “Big Tech” are. That goes without saying.
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From censoring the President of the United States for daring to report substantiated claims of election fraud, to literally shutting down the Twitter account of White House Press secretary, Kayleigh McEnany, to Facebook’s banning of “Stop The Steal” – a Facebook group set up to challenge voter fraud that had almost 400,000 Facebook members when it saw its page “unpublished” by Zuckerberg’s authoritarian overseers last week – Big Tech has been undermining our democracy and stifling our ability to speak freely every chance they get.
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This won’t surprise nationalists, as authoritarians like Zuckerberg have been censoring nationalists for years now.

However, for Big Tech to target mainstream conservative groups, vloggers and pundits as well as the New York Post (the Hunter Biden laptop story was published by the US’s 4th most read newspaper, not the National Enquirer), the President and his staff, demonstrates just how out of control they are.
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As with the Democratic Party, social-media honchos believe they occupy the moral high ground, and therefore have the RIGHT to curtail our consitutional right to express our thoughts, beliefs and opinions.
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After all, we are racist, xenophobic, hate-filled, homophobic and to be literally “punched,” etc.

This is identical to the mentality of the Bolsheviks who felt they were morally justified in killing millions of their enemies — innocents who even remotely opposed their evil ideology.
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We are also apparently privileged and RICH due to the fact all of us are descended from slave owners and internment camp overseers by virtue of our bloodlines.
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In fact, I am just sitting down to write this after swimming several laps in my money vault – money my great great great great grandfather made selling Michelle Obama’s ancestors. (sarcasm)
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We traditionally-minded white folks, whether we hail from the rural Ozarks or impoverished Appalachia, ARE again, by virtue of our bloodlines, the sorts of people that benefited from not only the Trans-Atlantic slave trade, but from the President’s tax cuts.
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Funnily enough, last time I checked my bank account was overdrawn, as I expect many of yours are as well….
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Facebook, on the other hand, the arbiters of online justice, and in turn the champions of the global poor and disenfranchised, seem to be doing quite well!
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Both at home in Silicon Valley, as well as around the globe where they pay next to NO tax.
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As a libertarian (with obvious nationalist leanings) I am typically opposed to oppressive and excessive taxes – whether it be income, property, sales, state, local or federal.

For me, taxes needs to be limited – especially until they’re spent on the RIGHT things – NOT on war and corporate bailouts.
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The Left and their mouthpieces across the mainstream-broadcast, legacy-print and Silicon Valley social-media, though love taxes ON YOU

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So, pray tell, then why aren’t they paying their own fair share?
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Heck, why are they literally paying what amounts to pennies on the dollar?
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Don’t do as I do, do as I say, comes to mind.
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The Financial Times reported that last year Facebook PLC’s UK operations paid just £28m in corporate tax despite generating a record £1.6bn in British sales ALONE.

(One British pound sterling is equal to US$1.32.)
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The social media company’s UK accounts, demonstrated by a 2019 audit, showed a gross income from advertising revenue that rose almost 30% last year to £1.65bn, while their pre-tax profits surged by more than 50% from £63m to £97m.
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According to my math, that’s a tax payment of shockingly low 1.4% of their advertising income!
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28,000,000 divided by 1,600,000,000 = .014 or a 1.4% rate of taxation.
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And yet these immoral fiends lecture us on civic duty? Act as the arbiters of truth and justice?
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Steve Hatch, the Facebook vice-president for Northern Europe, declared that: “Businesses across the country use our platforms to grow, and revenue from customers supported by our UK teams is now recorded here so that any taxable profit is subject to UK corporation tax.”
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But former Labour Party Shadow Chancellor, John McDonnell MP – and trust me when I tell you that it pains me to have to quote this IRA-supporting communist scumbag – rightfully criticized the relatively small amount of corporation tax the US tech giant paid, saying,
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“How many more examples of large-scale tax avoidance does this government need before it will take action? It’s no wonder people are outraged at the grotesque unfairness of our tax system.”

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After the report broke, the Organisation for Economic and Development (OECD), proposed a global restructuring of taxation rules that currently permits firms to shift profit from the States in which they generate most of their profits, to “low-tax locations”.
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This enables them to continue to make money hand-over-fist in heavily populated, wealthy nations like the UK, while hiding profits in tax-shelter havens like the Cayman Islands.
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The proposals recommended by the OECD, in fact, would give governments more power to tax Big Tech juggernauts like Facebook, Twitter, Apple, and Google in the countries where they peddle products and services and make their money.
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People don’t often realise that although Facebook is “free at the point of use” – meaning people can set up their accounts and profiles free of charge – they make a killing on not only advertising (the items that appear on your news feed and in the margins of your Facebook homepage – things that you often see, read and consume FIRST have been paid for) but also on the sale of your personal information and consumption preferences.
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Although I typically don’t concern myself with the manner in which corporations are taxed, in the case of Facebook and these other DEMONIC “woke” Big Tech firms – companies that sneer at people like you and me for daring to oppose authoritarianism, socialism and the sorts of ideologies being pushed by the men and women making a mint from what amounts to tax fraud – I will make an exception.
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Make these monsters pay their fair share!
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And trust me when I tell you, I am not some sort of AOC wannabe, who’d prefer to kill business with taxes, regulation and restrictions to make a point.
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I believe governments should encourage businesses to prosper as it drives the economy, creates jobs and pumps money into regions of the country that need a cash-flow injection, but “come on, man” – to quote Sleepy Joe – the 1.4% tax rate Facebook is paying in Britain is insulting and unconscionable.
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Add that to the fact that these hypocrites believe they occupy the moral high ground on EVERYTHING, which only magnifies the magnitude of their abuse.
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Companies that do business in more than one country have long been a challenge for tax authorities because they can structure their business operations in a manner that minimizes their tax bills, while they exploit the benefit of being able to operate in our lands.
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That’s why our goverments need to step in and lay the law down. If not, they need to pull the plug on their operations and start locking people up.
If I earned 50k a year – I don’t – and hid it, I’d be sent to jail. So why is Facebook allowed to steal hundreds of millions of pounds?
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The OECD’s proposal “includes new rules on where tax should be paid and on the proportion of their profits that should be taxed in each country.”

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And understand, this is just the tip of the proverbial iceberg. Facebook also makes HUNDREDS of BILLIONS of dollars across the remainder of the world and pays next to NO tax there either. Based on my in-depth research the same also holds true for Twitter, Amazon, Netflix and the rest of the anti-Trump, anti-American and anti-White US-based big Tech firms.

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Want to impact the effeminate Zuck, Bezos and @Jack (filthy authoritarian Twitter boss, Jack Dorsey) ? Hit them in their pocketbooks….
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I will leave you with a breakdown of what Big Tech, Amazon and streaming services like Netflix are making in Britain, and what they are paying in tax, compliled by New Zealand business journalist, Mark Sweeney.
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Facebook’s UK operation expanded rapidly last year with staff numbers rising by more than 50%, from 1,290 to 1,965 year on year, with a total staff wages and pension bill of £431m.
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The company’s UK office provides marketing services and sales and engineering support to other parts of the company. Facebook, which also owns the hugely popular Instagram and What’sApp social media services, said it spent £356m on research, development and engineering in the UK last year.
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“The UK is now one of Facebook’s most important hubs for global innovation,” said Hatch. “We continue to grow and invest heavily in the UK and by the end of the year we’ll employ 3,000 people here. These high-skilled jobs are not only working on products like WhatsApp and Workplace but also help develop technology to proactively detect and remove malicious content from our platforms.”
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Facebook UK said that the net revenues it made from advertisers rose 50% last year to £797m, meaning 12% of its sales were converted to profits.
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This falls far short of the company’s overall global performance – last year, Facebook made $25bn (£19.7bn) of profit on total worldwide revenues of $55.8bn – meaning it converted 44% of its sales into profits.
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Last month, the online retail giant Amazon was criticised for paying just £14.7m in UK corporation tax last year, despite reporting sales of £2.3bn.
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Earlier this month, Netflix UK’s accounts showed that the streaming giant received a €57,000 (£51,000) tax rebate from the UK government last year, despite making an estimated £700m from British subscribers bingeing on fare from “The Crown” to “Stranger Things.”
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Last year, Google paid £66.8m in UK corporation tax, up from £49.7m, as pretax profits rose from £200m to £246m. Google UK reported £1.4bn in revenues last year, up from £1.2bn. Apple paid £3.8m in tax on £1.2bn in sales last year.
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Make them pay!
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[End of article by François Arouet]

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