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@vmvd42

Live and Let Live. Please, take a deep breath, relax, smile and be kind. She/her.

Netherlands, regio 050
Joined June 2009

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    Jun 2

    Really enjoying this beautifully illustrated re-telling of Miguel de Cervantes’ classic Don Quixote by Martin Jenkins and An absolutely stunning book that really brings the world of Don Quixote and 16th Century Spain to life.

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    Jun 2

    The billionaire Redstone family - who controlled the company through most of this activity and whose scion, Shari Redstone, is its current CEO - dispute the careful, well-documented claims in the report, though they offer no evidence to contradict them. 9/

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    Jun 2

    CBS jealously defended the pretense that a series of numbered companies with few (or zero!) employees were actually conducting its licensing and distribution business, firing at least one exec who tried to blow the whistle on the scheme. 8/

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    Jun 2

    While this was a global affair, the Netherlands were central to the con, because of its 0.8% tax rate on foreign distribution revenues. 7/

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    Jun 2

    Uber may be an aggressive user of the Dutch system, but they're not the only one. evaded a $4b US tax-liability by pretending to license its IP to shell companies in "Barbados, the Bahamas, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, and Britain." 6/

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    Jun 2

    They document the tissue-thin pretenses that Dutch regulators tolerate, like "selling" its IP to a Dutch subsidiary financed with a $16b "loan" from a Singaporean subsidiary, garnering 20 years' worth of $1b annual tax credits. 5/

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    The report on Dutch shell companies calls Uber's Netherlands gambits "the Champions League of tax avoidance." 4/

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    The Dutch are among the most enthusiastic hosts to financial crimes. That's how Uber cheats on its taxes: it has 50 Dutch shell companies that it launders its money through. 3/

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    Jun 2

    But in truth, the most harmful tax-havens are "onshore-offshore," notorious jurisdictions like Delaware, Nevada and Wyoming, or, in the EU, Malta, Luxembourg, Cyprus and the Netherlands. 2/

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    Jun 2

    When you think about tax-havens, you probably think about Caribbean "treasure islands," the ex-colonies whose erstwhile conquerors set them up as dependent financial secrecy jurisdictions whose economies were doomed to be stunted forever. 1/

    An icon of a robber running away from a government building holding a loot-sack; the background is the Dutch flag and the robber's head has been replaced by the CBS 'eye' logo.


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Adrien Coquet/Noun Project (modified)
https://thenounproject.com/term/thief/2490760/

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    May 29

    Never thought about it before, but you know that famous picture of a bunch of construction workers sitting on a girder way up in the sky and having lunch? Well, here's the photographer who took that picture: Charles C. Ebbets.

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    May 28

    What if I told you there was a single intervention we could deliver in our cities that would cool them during heatwaves, reduce flooding, scrub pollutants from the air, boost biodiversity, improve public health, and even reduce crime? You wouldn't believe me. But it's true.

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    May 27

    LET OP: vanaf nu kan ook iedereen die in 1972 of 1973 geboren is een vaccinatieafspraak maken. Ook zonder (!) brief. Afspraak maken: . Deze jaren krijgen Pfizer of Moderna. Bellen kán ook, maar liever niet ivm drukte belcentrale: 0800 7070. RT=lief

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    Dit is een van de meest bizarre tweets ooit: Willem Engel die namens een gezochte terrorist laat weten dat de bedreigde Marc van Ranst weer naar buiten ‘mag’.

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    May 21

    i think the US just declared war on the UK it was a nice run while it lasted

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