Why do you think they can ignore it? Meta has physical presence in the EU and most likely in Italy too. I doubt Meta's stock would like the Italian Government confiscating Meta's assets.
replyWhat does Meta have in Italy? A few office chairs?
replyWhy did you ignore the rest of my comment? Meta has bank accounts in EU countries and servers in EU countries that obviously will be confiscated if Meta refuses to pay.
replyThey didn't ignore it. Their view is that meta's only assets are office chairs.
replyThey report paying them in their audited quarterly financial statements.
replyMy understanding is they seem to only pay them in jurisdictions where they are making enough profit to justify paying them. If Uganda for example levied these fines they’d just threaten to pull out, and would likely follow through on that.
replyDo you have any actual example of this, or is it just something you've made up?
replyThey would be paying yes.
replyBy the time the public hears about it like this it means attempts to avert it by the army of corporate lawyers & compliance experts have already failed
>I would just ignore 'em
That goes about as well as you refusing to pay your taxes. Pointless because while governments are slow they do eventually come for their pound of flesh