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You don't, but if you're the best bid for storing one copy your the best bid for storing all n copies!

If the CEO wants to buy a new Ferrari, they need to take money out of the company - either as income or dividends (both of which are taxed). If the company buys him his car then it's a taxable benefit too. If the company increases the value of the CEOs shares by doing share buybacks, then the CEO just pays more capital gains taxes. Avoiding corporation tax means the tax paid directly by the company goes down, but it's not at all obvious that the net amount the government receives goes down. Only direct taxes are reflected on their balance sheet, though, which is a good enough incentive.

If Amazon pays its employees income, and those employees pay income tax, how is that different to Amazon paying tax? The government gets its money from Amazon either way.

More importantly, did the people running analysis on this dataset get explicit permission from the European post authors as required by the GDPR?

> deficit reduction programme

Your link just explains that they’re trying to reduce the gap between tax income and expenditure, but the absolute level of expenditure (my link) has gone up every year (in real terms too)!

> Banks get to create the principal that they loan out of thin air[1]

I’m not sure how you get this from your reference - people deposit money at a bank, and the bank lends (gives!) some of that money out to (e.g.) students. The “creation” comes from both the depositor and the borrower thinking they have the money.

What would be a GDPR-compliant yet useful access_log setting?

The transition period will probably end in December 2020 - that's a long time to wait and see!

Why do you lose a say over global standards? Surely you now represent yourselves directly on global standards bodies, instead of indirectly via the EU's common position?